Thursday, April 14, 2011

Striking While the Iron is Hot

My muse is hanging around a while it seems so I'm taking advantage of her good nature (lol).  I've been playing around with making some new chunky, fun, funky rings.  The first two have soft suede bands, the first has an old earring glued on top.  The third is a redo of a ring I bought (actually, I bought a lot of them) after finding them in the $1 bin at Michael's.  They are silvertone rings with 1" clear round cabochon that had a floral sticker underneath that I found would come off easily after prying the cab off the ring.  I've been putting a 1" round mirror on the ring frame and then adding mini images and then gluing the clear cab back on top.  The 4th ring is made of one of the $1 ring frames and an old pin.
I'm needing something new and different hairstyle wise so I'm letting my hair grow out after a zillion years of keeping it very short.  I find myself in a position of very soon needing barrettes to keep it back out of my face, glue, paint, glitter, gel medium (well you get the picture).  So I'm making barrettes for myself.  This one is just an odd cut piece of leather and "leopard" skin (from an old purse) and beads from an old necklace and copper wire glued onto a large metal barrette form.
New soft cuff - Safari.  Like the denim it is on a suede base with "leopard" material, beads, buttons, broken jewelry, broken "coins", etc.

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