Monday, May 23, 2011

Such a tease!

Do you like these Hamsa earrings? Well, you can't have them! I did create them with the intention of listing them in my shop, Handmade Jewelry by Erthe Fae Designs, but I tweeted about them while I was making them and one of my dance classmates saw and called dibs! I call that proof that social networking really is good for business.

Anyway, over the weekend I worked on my new crystal bracelet variant (with metal seed beads!), and I completed two of them, but I don't really feel like setting up my photography stuff just to take pictures of two bracelets. I have the beads picked out for a third bracelet to make while I'm watching DVDs tonight. I could have made it last night after finished the second bracelet, but honestly the thread that I have to use with the metal seed beads is hard on my hands, so I don't like to work with it for too long at a sitting.

So tomorrow afternoon I will have three bracelets to photograph and whatever I buy at the Rings & Things show in Mesa tomorrow. Yep, I'm going to drive almost 2 hours to buy beads again, even though I keep saying I have too many of them. Guess I should go use up some more tonight.

4 comments:

  1. What thread are you using with the metal beads?

    (The word is "graph"!)

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  2. Black Fireline if I'm using dark crystals and white Wildfire if I'm using light. I'm pretty sure they'd wear right through Nymo or One-G.

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  3. Ah, I use fireline for most everything. But the white seems to break very easily. Mine's pretty old, though, they may have updated it.

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  4. I haven't had any breakage trouble except for one time when a knot cut through the thread. I really don't like working with Fireline, but it's the only thing that can be used for some projects.

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