Friday, March 21, 2014

* Stunning necklace or art piece?


 Is this creation of mine an art piece or a piece of jewelry? I crossed the line somewhere in making this necklace. It's so daring and so gorgeous and I put so much effort into making it, that I really don't want to sell it.  I have at least $150.00 in matched VINTAGE, carved, large, MOP buttons, agate stones,  freshwater pearls, and findings...not to mentions about 40 hours in labor...seriously.

The original version of this was "crooked".  I had used mismatched buttons and so some of button pendants hung at different lengths...It killed me to start over, but I did.

To make each button pendant/chain, I folded a long piece of beading wire in half, strung on the botton pearl and agate stone to the middle of the wire. Then I crossed the wires though the buttons twice and repeated: Twist the wire, string another pearl/stone/button etc.  I had to be careful. If I twisted the wire too  much or too hard...it would break.  And it did.  I had to do two of the button pendants over because the wire broke.

When the pendants were done, I then had to change neck chains twice because they weren't strong enough to support the pendants.

This necklace is almost too daring. I  imagine a tall beautiful leggy woman with a long neck wearing this..a Hollywood starlet or someone wanting to
make sure everyone noticed her.  Or not.
It's my weird imagination that created this necklace....
.I can imagine the person who might wear it as well!!    LOL  LOL LOL






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