Oh what a tangled web we weave,

when first we decide to add chain danglies all over a thing.

I'mna hafta fiddle with this one a bit more.
So I listed these babies:

They were such a breeze to make and to photograph!!!


But now that you can see them for reals, they're cute, hu?
So now I'm all about these simple projects.


Like, if I can make pendants separate from necklaces, hows about necklaces separate from focal pendants?


Would be a lot easier on me thats for sure. And cheaper things always sell better.


D you see this amazing crown bit? The ring bail coming out of the amethyst solder is directly connected to its inside.


And this here- I've had this since I started leafing but never knew what to do with it.


The verdigris on the nail was put there with a colored pencil! Thanks AnvilArtifacts for that tip.


Oops. I just realized that on the listing I wrote that this coin was French. And it says "Brazil" right on there. D'oh!

But it's cool because it already sold.


And this one sold. Another double sided one.


I did some of my embez on this. But instead of spotted bits, I melted it all down into a ... goo of some kind.


And this got snapped up by my buyer of all things neon, Pamela of 3LittleKittensStudio.


It's all muggy out but inside I'm eating cold ripe black cherries. Aahhhh...

Here's what I was sweating over when was it? Yesterday?:

As you can see, it's some soldering before oxidizing.

 OK, so a good while ago pipnmolly sent me about seventy pounds of pewter and some tips on soldering with it.

Which I did not understand. Cuz turns out the stuff acts more like solder than regular metal.

So when I put this together, I meant for the pewter to be like a sheet-metal base.

Instead I got this glob.

I'm going with it.

 This was from a baggie of chips and chunks a guy sold me for a buck fidy.

After that clusterfuck, I thought I'd do some plain old soldering. I wanted to snaz up these plain horn beads. It might still work when I oxidize it.

And when I clean this one up and all...

Here's the back. It was all copacetic til I added a glob of pewter to the top. But that's what sanding's for!

Here's some other globby globs. Well, the undersides. As you can see there are wacky wires sticking out all willy-nilly. It's really hard to connect small jump rings for bails, so I thought I'd just connect the wire and later loop it somehow.

In fact, Here, I looped but left a wire out to hold on to the loop as I solder/pewtered it. Next I'll snip and dremel it smoothish. Oh, and I decided I'd let y'all see how awful my fingertips really are.