Aaaaaaaand sandblasting complete! Now to wash them and box them for the show.
Glass sandblasted
Sandblasting
Guess who is going to the Vinery to sandblast this week?
I quite enjoy using this pink duct tape instead of the grey stuff π Thanks to that long ago 3-year bag arranger for getting it for me π My goal is to finish cutting ALL of the existing glass in my house, sandblast it, and then be done with this stuff for ….. ever? for years? For a long time anyway. I enjoy other projects more than this one (although I did get quite a bit of “quality TV time” in while working on theseο»Ώ the other day).
Ooooh! Shiny!
I’ve been playing around with a new technique: polishing stuff in a rock tumbler. Initial results? WOW!!! Sooooo shiny!
And there’s an extra bonus, too. Yesterday I found out that half an hour is enough to polish the silver BUT LEAVES MY DICHRO ALONE… Which is awesome because that means I can polish all of my glass bezel pendant without dealing with the buffer!
Dirty patterns
These are nowhere near done, and in fact are very dirty. But sometimes I think that the patterns left on a piece just after soldering are just so neat.
The other sock monster!
Here’s the other animal/monster for the baby mobile we made in March π
Glass Fish
This year, for the first time ever, I participated in a glass magless exchange (technically “magnets” but since everyone would have had to pay extra shipping costs if everyone glued magnets on to the back of their work, we all skipped the “glue magnet on” step and hence then name “magless”). I made fish. One heckuva LOT of fish:
Rainbow snake!
In March, I made two stuffed animals for a dear friend’s baby mobile….. these are the only pictures I took, though, so you folks might not get to see the green bat/owl/monster that also went to her house.
Four more stone settings
Man. I have to work on polishing these, but I figured I’d post a picture anyway — even if it *is* dirty. This brings my total up to 16. Thirty-four more to go….
Surprise in the mail!
Someone sent me a bunch of AWESOME little dichroic cabs in the mail π π π Now to design some silver to go around them…..
12 bezel settings
Thirty-eight more to go….. The I get to install a solar tube in my kitchen! By the way, i made all of the cabs used in these pendants and earrings, too. They’re glass. Some are dichroic and the striped ones were just a neat technique I learned about earlier this year.
