52 Pick-up (1st of 52)
Jan. 10th, 2011 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lhskarkaMeant to put this up over the weekend, but I had a learning curve on getting my picture posted, so here it is now:
Nothing too fancy, but I'm pleased with it. The pendant is a faience Eye of Horus that Electric Boogaloo wasn't wearing anymore. I quite like jewelry with a tribal, psuedo-Egyptian look to it, especially for summer, so I expect it will see a lot of wear. The most difficult bit was getting the leather cord to go through the white bone beads/vertebrae. I had to em-biggen the holes just a little to accomodate the cord, which I did by swirling a hat pin around the inside of each piece to grind off a tiny bit of bone. And voila!
Lessons learned:
1) Making the necklace, fairly easy (except for the grinding bit). Lack of time is so not an excuse for this kind of thing.
2) My sewing/crafting area needs a major overhaul, again. My jewelry supplies are crammed in crates under the sewing table, and it took nearly as much time to dig everything I wanted out as it did to design and make the necklace.
Progress:
I also wrote (nearly) every day, and sketched a couple of new outfit ideas last week.
So, there it is. 51 more to come. :)
Nothing too fancy, but I'm pleased with it. The pendant is a faience Eye of Horus that Electric Boogaloo wasn't wearing anymore. I quite like jewelry with a tribal, psuedo-Egyptian look to it, especially for summer, so I expect it will see a lot of wear. The most difficult bit was getting the leather cord to go through the white bone beads/vertebrae. I had to em-biggen the holes just a little to accomodate the cord, which I did by swirling a hat pin around the inside of each piece to grind off a tiny bit of bone. And voila!
Lessons learned:
1) Making the necklace, fairly easy (except for the grinding bit). Lack of time is so not an excuse for this kind of thing.
2) My sewing/crafting area needs a major overhaul, again. My jewelry supplies are crammed in crates under the sewing table, and it took nearly as much time to dig everything I wanted out as it did to design and make the necklace.
Progress:
I also wrote (nearly) every day, and sketched a couple of new outfit ideas last week.
So, there it is. 51 more to come. :)
