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Mimi-Mushroom — Rainbow Necklace
Published: 2006-09-27 00:08:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1054; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 5
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This turned out to be a pain in the bum to make...Polymer clay, a ton of crimping beads and some tiger tail...
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Thankyou - it's almost as colourful as your wonderful signature!
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It looks like the wire is going through hollow tubes on the rainbow? If I'm right, then it would be a pain in the rear end to make the necklace, but the finished result looks neat!
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the tiger tail holding the raindrops on the bottom of the necklace is held in place by securing the ends with crimping beads which are then inset by about a centimetre/⅓ inch and held in place with plastic cement. The hardest job was actually the main line of tiger tail swecuring the whole thing around the neck - It took me three attemps before I found a way (using hand-corkscrewed eye-pins) that I was convinced would be durable enough.
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The finished piece looks worth the effort it took to make it, and it's always interesting how things you don't expect to be hard can turn out to be damn near impossible.
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*peers* Does the tiger tail holding the raindrops actually run right the way through the coloured bands of the rainbow? Sheesh, no wonder it was a pain 
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No, I do have another rainbow neclace made the same using that method - done with a long embroidery needle, but I find that I have to plug the ends of the hole with two seed beads to stop the tiger tail from eroding the polymer, so this one I made a little differntly. Without being able to find any tiny screw hooks hough I had to make my own by winding long eyelet-ended pins around a needle to make little screws to wind into the rainbow and then attach the tiger tail through those loops with a couple of crimping beads...
These two rainbows were the first pieces of jewellry I have ever made though, so it was really trial and error having never seen or heard of 'tiger tail' crimping beads' etc etc before this point, lol
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Wow, that's actually a pretty neat method of securing the eyepins into the clay - they certainly won't be sliding out! Good thinking
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Well, this was my first attmpt at something like this, so it was a bit trial and error. If I get a bit more confident I may put a couple up on eBay or as trades or something.
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Thankyou PrincessPanessa!
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Your very welcome! I love rainbows, they always make me think of Cartman.
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I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv it!!
It's really cute my little jewelmaker!!
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Ah, thankyou honey, it means a lot to hear you say that!
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Are we brain connected? [link]
Do you think you will appreciate some of my magnets? I mean, travelling with Sherlock?
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Hhe - you have no idea how much I actually made a cloud one too, with little raindrops hanging from it, but I left it in too long and it went slightly off-colour, so I am going to make another one - but it looked exactly like your cloud magnet - I think we are perhaps psychic, lol...
Well, I didn't want to say so much as it was a surprise, but I was making a few pieces of jewellry for a certain little pady with a fondness for sexy heeled shoes, but I have a few other surprises for your box of goodies anyway, but I am so happy that you like it!
I think the little magnets are gorgeous and I'd love one!
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For me?
Oh thank you dear!!!!
I'm haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappyyyyyyyyyyy!!! 
It seems that the word Pastrocchi could be translated like that:
pastrocchio: nm (dialetto) bungle, muddle, mess, muck-up, mix-up
but I don't know if the English word could express the same "mood" as the italian one does.....
I will send you a very heavy parcel I think!!!!!
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I was speaking to Marco, (well, emailing), an Italian friend of mine who lives in Biella (I think it is spelled) and when I asked him to have a go at translating it for me he said it was like 'hotchpotch', or, as you said, 'mess'. I think it is a lovely word - It brings to mind a bit of chaos, creativity and almost a childishness, I think it is a lovely tag for your works (which, of course, are nothing like a hotchpotch or mess, but beautiful in their simplicity and vision)
Ah, I look forward to this parcel swap!!!
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lol, it IS a necklace!
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awesome ahhaha 
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ah, thankyou very much ~yourbirdisgreen , and thankyou for the fave x
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