Lately, I have become fascinated by the Vintaj line of brass jewelry findings and design pieces. I really love the nature designs and the filigree pieces. This design I had put together before Christmas, didn't like how it looked and set it aside. When I started beading again a couple weeks ago, I took it apart and restyled it. I used some antique brass colored wire, dark, coppery colored freshwater pearl for the bird egg, and some bits of wire lace for the leaves. I had gotten all three in a lovely destash goody bag from MyElements on Etsy, and wove the nest just by winding the wire around and over and under until it looked like a bird nest. I wired in the "egg" and tied the wire lace and cut and frayed it. I really love how it turned out, and had lots of compliments on it. It looks lovely on the necklace display at Graham Gallery too! I am taking a class in Silversmithing on Saturday in Omaha, in hopes of branching out my jewelry making. I am a bit tired of "stringing" beads for jewelry and suffering a bit of burnout. Just want to learn something new, and incorporate some of that into what I do. I really love the stamped pendants and would love to get into adding that to what we do with the bead making and jewelry.
Lately, I have become fascinated by the Vintaj line of brass jewelry findings and design pieces. I really love the nature designs and the filigree pieces. This design I had put together before Christmas, didn't like how it looked and set it aside. When I started beading again a couple weeks ago, I took it apart and restyled it. I used some antique brass colored wire, dark, coppery colored freshwater pearl for the bird egg, and some bits of wire lace for the leaves. I had gotten all three in a lovely destash goody bag from MyElements on Etsy, and wove the nest just by winding the wire around and over and under until it looked like a bird nest. I wired in the "egg" and tied the wire lace and cut and frayed it. I really love how it turned out, and had lots of compliments on it. It looks lovely on the necklace display at Graham Gallery too! I am taking a class in Silversmithing on Saturday in Omaha, in hopes of branching out my jewelry making. I am a bit tired of "stringing" beads for jewelry and suffering a bit of burnout. Just want to learn something new, and incorporate some of that into what I do. I really love the stamped pendants and would love to get into adding that to what we do with the bead making and jewelry.
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