Back to your regularly scheduled shiny things...

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This is actually from a few days ago. Some more blue coral and antique copper, since a lot of people (including me!) like it. Some epic bling on the right. And, yes, that's a pink and black bracelet that says <3. :D



This is from today. Because on top of printing and stuffing a game (Lifeline at Vestival! you should play!), running lots and lots of errands, doing costuming for multiple games, makeup testing, and various character prep, I also made jewelry. I'd actually made the coin earrings last night, so I made a necklace to match, and then I made something for my character in Oz. Kind of a spontaneous riff, but she's close to her mother and just moved away from home, so I liked the idea of her wearing a heart necklace her mother gave her. The purple (in real life, those obscenely glowing beads are rich purple) is the state color of her homeworld, and the little silver stars are because she's a space pilot.

I'm a dork.

I also made a matching earring, and that was an experiment...my wire-working skills are nonexistent, but I set out to make a wire ear cuff with a loop so I could hang a dangle from it. And it looks a bit lopsided, but it works. It holds, the coated copper wire I have on hand flexes nicely for putting it on and off, and the twisty stem before the loop actually rides right along the edge of my ear almost down to my lobe. It's kind of hard to describe. But it almost looks like I'm wearing a normal ear piercing, and it's a cuff, so it's super-comfy and awesome.

I love ear cuffs. I mentioned I was a dork, right?

Also, I should ask...

[Poll #1551758]

Comments

[freetobeme18.livejournal.com]

voted #1, though I should note that I appreciate cuts for large pictures for the sake of my slow internetz.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I like the shinies. I like the posting dailyish.

So, little of column a, little of column b.

[sixthbrightest.livejournal.com]

SHINIES SHINIES please keep posting the shinies. And I like seeing them daily because they're a spot of color and nice-ness and something to look forward to.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I like that you are posting (hypothetically) daily and I like shiny things. But I clicked #1.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I like looking at shinies. I rarely make it to actually seeing them (except times like now when I am procrastinating on something I need to accomplish) but I do like looking when I have the chance. :-)

[matt_doyle]

I picked the second answer, but the shinies are in fact pretty, for the record.

[rivenwanderer.livejournal.com]

Another "a little of column a, a little of column b" here--not a lot of the stuff you've posted lately is my personal style, but I love seeing you be productive and make abstractly-neat things.

Oh, if you do more wire work, you might be interested in playing with Liver of Sulfur--you make jewelry with regular copper wire, then oxidize it with LOS and scrub with scotch brite to highlight. No worrying about the pliers scratching the antique finish while working with it! LOS is how I get the darker patinas on my copper metalwork too. Only downside is the part where it smells godawful so it needs to be used outside or in a very well-ventilated bathroom, and disposed of down the toilet. Anyway, I have seriously way too much of it (a can half the volume of a soda can full of it, and you mix a chip the size of a grain of rice with water when oxidizing something...) and I would be happy to give you some if you're interested.

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

I really wish I could wear these, stupid metal allergies! :(

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I said that I don't care about the shinies but enjoy seeing you posting, but I do enjoy looking at the shinies when they're there.

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Behind a cut, you can post anything you like! It's like driving in Boston with your blinkers on.

Also, when I see stuff with interesting bright colors like that, my first thought is to wonder if the camera got it right, since it was taken indoors with a flash, apparently.