Sooo Psyched!

So today Mrs. W. told me that i could hammer the wire to make it flat, which makes it look pretty sweet. After messing around a bit with the new technique, I made a pendant out of paua shell and a tiny blue cab it looks pretty awesome and I'm excited to see what more I can do with this technique->

I FINISHED MY TURQUOISE BEZEL SET!!!

It took FORVEVER but I finally finished it. Its real turquoise set into sterling silver, It was kind of worry-some here and there because of how expensive the materials were, but I am so proud of it, plus it was fun to use the torches to solder the silver ;D Here's the pic ->

Necklaces

Here are two more of my necklaces:
the first is one i made from cutting out a keyhole from a sheet of brass, and i made the beads out of rolled sheet music =>



The second I made out of a glass cabochon* and sheet music I then wrapped the final piece in copper wire


*a cabochon, or cab, is basically a gem or stone that you can bezel set into metal, I'm currently working on bezel setting a turquoise cab into sterling silver as soon as I'm done I'll post pics :)

JEWELRY!!!!!!!!! yay

So... I've been going necklace crazy :D i made three so far and am working on two more. The first is made of copper that i dapped on a dapping block. Basically what that means is that i hammered the metal into a disc like mold to create an indent. Here it is ->