Pendants

I finally got around to posting the Tree of Life pendants that I have made:

#1 is the very first attempt... not quite awesome, but it's pretty!
#2 is the product of miscommunication...  Hahaha
#3 is the product of better communication. My brother commissioned* me to make this shiney pretty pendant for his fiance. I've now made her a few pairs of earrings, as well as this pendant. 

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* AKA he's making me make stuff for her, so that he doesn't have to go out to jewelry stores and hunt for something through racks and racks and racks of earrings. He just stops at my apartment, tells me what he wants, and makes me make them. Punk apparently has this figured out...

Random Necklace

A few Christmases ago, I got a couple of tubs of random glass beads. (Pretty sure they were "seconds")  I had absolutely no idea what to do with them, as they were all dirty, about a quarter of them were broken, and half of them had funky glass globs on them. In other words, they're pretty fugly.   So, one day, I got bored with some extra wire, was kind of drunky* and created something similar to the necklace pictured below.  So, a few weeks ago, I tried it again. Picking out the prettiest of the fugly beads, trying not to put similar colors next to each other, and watching TV**.

 This beauty measures 21.5 inches in length (clasp to clasp)

After finishing this necklace, my friend S demanded that she get something similar for Christmas this year. :)  She's so awesome. I'll come up with something super awesome & special for her.

Anyone wanna buy this beauty?  (email me at handmadedangles @ gmail.com if you do, and we'll hammer out the details)

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*I do my best creating when under the influence. I can never make stuff sober... is that bad?  Well, I can make stuff, but it isn't as awesome as something I've created while not... sober. :)


**As in  *  I can never sit down and just create.  I have to be intoxicated, and watching tv or a movie. But it has to be a show I've seen before, otherwise I get sucked into the show, and forget what I'm doing. 
(This totally happened a few nights ago. Watching Grey's Anatomy with The Boy, and all I did was watch.  At the end of each episode (disc 1 of season 1 - I <3 netflix) he would ask me if we should start another episode, so that I could finish the pendant I was working on. Finally, after starting the last episode, I just finished the damn thing so I could watch the show in peace... I'm terrible, aren't I?)


PS. If you have a hard time reading the itty bitty print, hit ctrl  +  and it will enlarge all the print on the screen.

Earrings

Some of my pretty earrings. :)

I'm working on getting better pictures, and using a brandy snifter* as a way of showing the 3D-ness of my earrings.

BLACK circle - I love these earrings, and am glad that you can clearly see the color. Some type of stone, with hematite danglies. :)

RED circle - Whoops, in normal light they're close in color, both gray-ish looking. I'll have to fix those.

GREEN circle -These are really chunky, heavy earrings. Different shaded beads interlocking with one another. They're strung on one eyepin, and pulled into a circle.

I have a mini-love affair going on with the chain/black/green earrings on the left.

Are they not gorgeous?

I also made another Tree of Life pendant, but totally forgot to snap a pic of it.  I'll get a pic of the new one**, and my first one (ya know, a side-by-side comparison), so that you guys can see them. Because they are awesome.

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*Please ignore the fingerprints on the glass... I fail. Hahaha

** I made the second one for my brothers fiance. My brother is so damn cute; he keeps bugging me to make earrings and stuff so that he can buy it from me, and then give it to her as a present.  It cracks me UP!