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seed-of-january — nature's jewelry
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Published: 2009-06-07 15:19:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 157; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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some tendrilled kind of plant growing in our gardenI think it's a common vetch
- any ideas?I love rain drops
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Pretty pretty! I wish one could make this into a necklace, don't you?
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it's really pretty and so filigree
it would be an awesome necklace 
maybe you could try in your silversmith class 
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There's an idea... simple clear glass beads and green wire? I think it could work!
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that sounds perfect
I don't have any coloured wire except for the red one I used for the donut necklace for krypto and that wire is really really thin - one need a thicker wire to bend that
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Perhaps we should collaborate some time?
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Hmm, how about I send you enough beads to make two - one for you and one for me? 
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that does sound great
but I need to look for some green wire first, or maybe I'll make it like the dreamcatcher: thick alu wire wrapped with some fine green wire
while I go have a look, we could think about the design 
I think it should be a pendant about 6 cm long, but it could be earhangers or a brooch too, what do you think?
how big/ tiny are those beads you're thinking about?
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Hmm, the dreamcatcher idea sounds good. Maybe use that as the basic construction, with little curly bits of green wire in between? I like the pendant idea, although earrings or brooch could be cool, too.
Not sure about size of beads... Perhaps really small? Like 1 or 2 cm each? (Smaller than that gets tricky to make)
Clear seed beads might be nice in between, for smaller drops.
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that sounds good
the pendant is my favourite too
If I'll make the pendant about 6cm long the glas beads should be 1cm each - I think 2cm is to big to count as a waterdrop
what are seed beads? I have rocailles if that is similar - they're available in 2,5mm and 5mm they would look cute as smaller drops
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As far as I know, seed beads and rocailles are pretty much the same thing
Agreed, 1 cm sounds good. I'll see what I can knock together
Your trade beads look divine, by the way - they came out really well. I'll try and photograph them tomorrow. I did try one with silver on the surface, but it looked weird 
I don't think they need etching, but you can let me know what you think when you've seen the picture.
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*Aaaahh 
*OOooohhhh you make me curious 
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Lovely! So, how many little lampwork beads shall I make for the project?
The trade beads are up! [link] Hope you like them.
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yay can't wait to start with nature's jewelry
well I think 4-6 lampwork beads for each pendant should do it, what do you think?
I'll take those rocailles we talked about for the rest of the waterdrops
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Lovely! 4-6 sounds good. I'll try and get them done early next week.
Yes, the two left in the background are the closest match. It's hard to make two the same in this shape, that's why I made so many... 
It is tempting to see what the etching would look like, but I think it would obscure too much of the interior.
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what are you going to do with the rest of the beads? do you make some pendants of it?
'undo' button 
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Yep, I'll probably sell a few as pendants, or design a necklace that uses a few of them.
"Undo" button for life in general - now that's an invention I could go for!
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the 'undo button' for life reminds me of the movie 'click' where adam sandler had like a tv remote to control his carreer and personal live - he had slow motion and fast forward, and mute for his mother-in-law
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Haha, yes it does! As I recall, his remote had dire consequences. Sigh.
But I still want an undo button.
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