First real cabs, first gold filled wrap
Apr 7, 2015 9:28:38 GMT -5
drocknut, Deb/nyllynn, and 6 more like this
Post by KathyG on Apr 7, 2015 9:28:38 GMT -5
Finally I have some decent real cabs to wrap, thanks to drocknut! She had some that she wasn't going to do anything with and sent them to me and I am so thankful that she did that. I'd like to present one of her cabs, a nice rose quartz.
My new wire came and I have decided to use silver filled wire as my practice wire, or my main wire until I get really good. Plus, since I need to be price conscious, the silver filled is more affordable than sterling, while still being considered silver (has way more silver than the Parawire silver plated). I wanted to save some money to also buy a little bit of gold filled wire, too.
This will be a birthday gift for my mother in law. Her name is Pat, so I curved the wire into a capital letter 'P' in script.
Yuck, there's a dog hair next to the rose quartz.
One thing I noticed is that my pliers made slight marks on the wire, but yet they had been filed down and freshly wrapped in masking tape.
Next is an agate (another from drocknut) done in gold filled wire. Finally - a good cab and good wire! I used the gold because gold goes so nicely with brown and well, I was just too excited to use the gold. So I did. And I did this one after a few glasses of wine..
So a big thank you to drocknut! There is another brown agate that my daughter wants me to wrap and to put a 'K' at the top, (her name is Kristina). So that's my next wrap. Thanks for looking!
My new wire came and I have decided to use silver filled wire as my practice wire, or my main wire until I get really good. Plus, since I need to be price conscious, the silver filled is more affordable than sterling, while still being considered silver (has way more silver than the Parawire silver plated). I wanted to save some money to also buy a little bit of gold filled wire, too.
This will be a birthday gift for my mother in law. Her name is Pat, so I curved the wire into a capital letter 'P' in script.
Yuck, there's a dog hair next to the rose quartz.
One thing I noticed is that my pliers made slight marks on the wire, but yet they had been filed down and freshly wrapped in masking tape.
Next is an agate (another from drocknut) done in gold filled wire. Finally - a good cab and good wire! I used the gold because gold goes so nicely with brown and well, I was just too excited to use the gold. So I did. And I did this one after a few glasses of wine..
So a big thank you to drocknut! There is another brown agate that my daughter wants me to wrap and to put a 'K' at the top, (her name is Kristina). So that's my next wrap. Thanks for looking!
