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Beadbimbo · 2007-07-25T20:24:05+00:00

Hi all, I just got back from our 6th girl trip to William Holland. I've been to the school 7 times, and 6 times with my sister and my daughter. The teacher we were supposed to have cancelled, so a new teacher was brought in and, I have to admit that I saw her work and was dreading the class! I thought that my sister, who was in the class with me, was going to shoot me for getting us into this! Lol. It turned out that we really liked it and learned a lot, neither of us having done much sculpture jewelry. The teacher was also very easy going, and a great teacher. She was so sweet. All in all, a great week! Our first project was this bracelet. They all came out different and none looked quite like our teachers. I thought mine was ok, but needed a little dressing up, so I added the Swaros: These were some easy pearl projects. I did the purple set first and then just wanted to make the earrings in green with smaller pearls. I messed up and made one of the earrings too big, so it became another set: We I made this onyx set, with what Anna calls an X-men wrap: Then, I was trying to repeat the pattern on these abalone earrings, but messed up my starting place, causing me to run out of wire on one side. I was thrilled that I was able to save them and even turn out something decent: This style wrap, Anna calls Rudolph Rabbit because you make a "nose" and "ears" on the back that you wrap through. I started out too big with my first pendant, so I grabbed this cab that I'd brought with me and it fit better. I like this one a lot: This was what I was going to use originally: I hated my anal retentive loops that matched all perfectly going up the side, so I covered them with Swaro again. Got a lot of nice comments on this one! Then, later, I tried another, very petite piece of charoite, using 24g wire: I LOVE this stick pearl set: Some simple earrings: During the evenings, a lot of folks were doing chain maille in the cafeteria. We...

Jul 25, 2007 21 Replies

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Vibrant Jewels 18 years ago

I have a lot of vintage cabs I need to put up for sale. Let me know what you are looking for: color, size, etc. And were you the one who wanted some gemstones for your dragons, or am I confused? (again, as usual...)

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Vibrant Jewels 18 years ago

I agree, its KLUNK - A - LISIOUS! But I think the cab is fancy jasper, not flourite? Flourite is usually more transparent.

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