I spent Friday after work making a couple of bracelets at my little home studio. These copper disks came off a roll at the fabric store - they were drilled at each side and linked with jump rings already. I think they may have been to make some funky beaded-type curtains or belts? I aged them with liver of sulphur. I added a brass washer with my favorite glue in the world (E6000) and then added a rhinestone cabochon in the middle. For the focal point, I attached a vintage date ring (a watch part) and a watch movement. In the watch movement, I added some gears and rhinestones for a little glitz.
I'd been thinking about making an asymetrical bracelet and I got an idea when I came across this old brass railroad tag. The railroad tag already had one big hole drilled at the top. I drilled three smaller holes on the bottom. I love my Dremel tool! I used beading wire and crimps with a variety of glass beads and metal bead spacers. I used a short piece of chain and attached the wire clasps which I'd made myself(my first! - thanks to great instructions in A Charming Exchange by Kelly Snelling and Ruth Rae.) The wire for the clasps was quite bright and liver of sulphur wasn't doing the trick so I used this new product that is like a black nail polish (but made specially for this purpose) and it worked really well.
That black polish/paint I'd purchased at a local bead store called Bead Need in Davie, Florida. I'd been dying to go there and finally I got a chance to do so. OMG! Every single kind of bead imaginable - the nicest surprise - the owner, Dee, is someone I used to work with a long time ago and whom I'd held in great esteem. It was so nice to reconnect with a wonderful person from the past.
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