Yaaaayyy for meee.... a new post! (Pat myself on my back)
This craftiness happened the same night I made the earrings from my previous post. Since I finished the earrings within 5-10 minutes, I still had plenty of time to make other pretty items.
Here's what I had to work with:
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| Eye pins, chains, and rock beads! |
I got these rock beads, also on a whim. Not really sure how I feel about them... even now. Haha. I was initially attracted to the beads because they looked like rocks and that somehow seemed cool. In any case, I had these rock beads to work with, and I decided to make bracelets. Mainly because my friend made her own bracelets, and so I wanted to make bracelets too. But, the question was, how would I make it?
First, I took the beads and added rings to the side of them so that they would be able to connect to the rest of the bracelet.
Since the eye pins were too long, I cut them short and then proceeded to make rings at the other end.
After making rings on all of the rock beads, I hooked them up to the chains that I had, and laid them out.
Aaaaannnnndddd... here's where I messed up.
I had the idea to make the rock beads hang at different lengths on the bracelet, but then when I cut the chains apart, I forgot that I had planned that. Haha. And I thought I was so smart for finding the very middle of all the chains by hanging the down on the table. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had to re-string and re-cut the chains all over again because now they were too short. Haha.
In any case, I ended up cutting longer sections of the chain for the rocks so that their lengths would be uneven on the bracelet.
The final step would be to join the three chains of rocks onto one bracelet.
I took a lobster claw and strung all the chains on one side and strung all the chains on another side on a closed ring.
And.... ta-da! Final product:
I guess it turned out okay. :P
I ended up making two more bracelets with the rest of my rock beads. One I made exactly the same, and the other I made the three rocks line up in one row so that it looked kinda like a ladder strung across my wrist (if that makes any sense).
All in all making bracelets was pretty fun. But I think I'm still more of a polymer clay sort of girl. Still, I'd probably still be down to try my hand at other sorts of bracelets when I get the time. Lately, it just feels like I just spend a lot of time at work, and so when I have free time, I just want to relax and play. Haha.
I already have a few posts in mind, so stay tuned! :)
As always, thanks for reading!
:)
