I know what you’re probably thinking – those aren’t pendants, they’re earrings! You’d be right, of course, but they did start out as pendants. I had a lazy Sunday yesterday and was making up some little charm pendants on head pins, when I realized they would make really cute earrings. So, I made a match for each one and did up a few pairs of fancy earwires in sterling silver.
The blue ones are made from lapis and blue goldstone beads. Goldstone is a pretty manmade stone with lots of sparkle. Below, a pair with agate, rose quartz, and glass, and a pair with beads sold to me as carnelian and citrine. I’m wary of claiming that beads really, truly are what the seller told me they are since there are so many enhancements and manmade versions of stones out there, and dealers aren’t always forthcoming about the origins of their beads.
Saturday I worked at my studio. This picture is of some resin pendants I’m working on. The one in the center of the picture was made from eyeshadow powder and a piece of a transparency with the number 23 on it. I haven’t decided how I want to finish it yet, maybe with some sheer pigment over the number or tiny beads around the edge to make a border.
These two large pendant frames are made from thick copper wire – I think it’s about 12g, which is heavier than I normally use. I’m going to decorate them eventually, but for now, I was just playing around with making freeform shapes with the thicker wire.
These cute little charm pendants are made with sterling wire and beads. I made the spiral headpins, which are fun because they are really easy to make and look much more interesting than plain headpins. Plus, I’m trying to use up the rest of my ‘regular’ sterling silver wire so I can switch over completely to Argentium silver, and this 20g wire seemed perfect for making fancy little headpins.
This pendant is kind of a mess – just like my studio! Windows are being replaced, so I’ve been moving and rearranging things a lot, and I ran across a little baggie of old wire components and practice wire name doodles, so I decided to fuse them. This is what happens when I try to make something when I’m too frazzled to think about what I might want it to look like, LOL. I do like the little wire cone, which I made into the bail by threading a piece of wire with a balled end through it, and made a little wire wrapped loop to hang it with.
Another simple one, alternating stone chips on a sterling headpin.
A simple pendant – two faceted teardrops on a sterling headpin
