Recent projects

My Mom's birthday is this coming Friday. I know she really likes lapis, so I made her this pendant with copper wire:

I've been playing around with rivets again. This is my favorite so far. It's made out of hand-cut brass and copper discs which I then rounded in my dapping block. Then I riveted them to a copper band:

That's all for now. I have a few other new items but haven't managed to get good pix of them.

Crystal copper woven wrap

My current project:

Copper wire and an old chandelier crystal. A conglomeration of several wraps I've seen. For a first go, not too bad so far...

And now for the finished version...

It was a lot more work than I thought it would be. The weaving was pretty simple but took a lot of time, despite using 24g wire. I wish I would have had something nicer than an old chandelier crystal to work with. Still, I suppose you can label this 'upcycling' and therefore a win.