New holiday earrings!

I just finished up these fun, holiday earrings!

Red and green furnace glass dangles!

Wonderful snowmen for your ears!

Enameling Hoops

I finished up several designs with enameled iron wire hoops and they are all waiting to be displayed at the Fallbrook Art Center Art of the Holiday show on 11/29. I need to make more to sell in my own shops! I think yellow with some yellow aventurine hanging in the hoop would be wonderful and cheery.  Here are some of the designs I finished.

Gorgeous green with BC jade

Lime green with purple micanite and amethyst

Purple with gorgeous charoite!

Turquoise hoop with Pilot Mountain turquoise

 You can see designs I have for sale on my website - http://www.cserpentDesigns.com and you can see more of the items available at the show on my Art of the Holiday gallery web page.

Bullets and Bling!

Well I'm actually showing bullet shells and bling :)  My hubby does target practice and brought home some bullet shells to see if I could use them for anything.  I decided to use them with some blingy rhinestone chain and gemstone accents.  Enjoy!

40 caliber bullet shell, AA grade moonstone, Swarovski crystals and Czech rhinestone chain, sterling silver earwires, "Love my cat" charm

40 caliber bullet shell, AA grade moonstone, Swarovski crystals and Czech rhinestone chain, br earwires, "Love my dog" charm

9mm luger bullet shell, angelite, Swarovski crystals, Czech rhinestone chain, vintage 1930's rhinestones, brass earwires

More enameling fun - from wire to hoop!

I'm part of the Painting with Fire Ning ring where a lot of torch fired enamel artists share information, pictures, ...  I saw some cool hoops made with steel wire and decided to give that a try.  I was never sure what my style was but my hubby told me - circles!  I tend toward round, circular, oval and I really like organic looking designs.  These steel hoops fit both my love for circular designs and organic looks.  I started out with something like this:

I just wrapped the steel wire around a wine bottle neck - so simple - well not totally because this is 16G wire so it's pretty beefy and a bit stiff.  I had to maneuver it to get the rings as close together as possible and have to make sure the ends tuck in close to all the loops.  Once I get the wire doing what I want I start the enameling process.  I heat the wire, dip in enamel, heat more wire dip, and on and on.  I usually start with clear or white and then add color over that.  This time I used clear, iris and a few dips in transparent raspberry.  Here are the results:

Those look a little better than the original don't you think?  Now to turn them into some fun earrings!

Find my at the Bichon Bash on 10/26!

I'll be selling at the Bichon Fur Kids Fall Bash on Saturday, October 26.  20% of the proceeds from my sales will go to BFK.  I'm working on new dog theme designs just for this event.  Here is a peak at some of them.

"A Bichon stole my heart" with copper, leather, ruby and glass

Crazy lace agate,  glass dog bones and gold fill

Black and pale blue lampwork, glass dog bones and sterling silver