Stupid beading tricks: The pendant

14 Jan

There was a Kay Jewelers store commercial on TV around the holidays – it was for a pendant called Love’s Embrace. I’ve never been a diamond girl although I’ve had some pieces in my lifetime. But this one just looked neat.

But you know what would be neater? If I could do something similar out of wire. A fantastically stupid idea.

I have set aside my Friday nights toward dinking around with this craft of mine. Last Friday I worked my poor fingers ’til they were sore trying to make the pendant.

But…BUT! I keep a creativity journal now (read: mid-life crisis) and on Monday I figured out how I could do it.

The wirework you see is not connected, but it shows the scale I'm looking for.

I can’t wait for tomorrow night to see if it works!

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Dream: I was in a revival of Chicago. (I must have played “The Prison House”) and the play was SO well received that Chicago 2 was being written.

Weight: 177.2
Lost: 3.2

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3 Responses to “Stupid beading tricks: The pendant”

  1. WiredStones January 15, 2010 at 11:45 am #

    I’m SO GLAD!! I’m not the only one who looks at these things and things of how neat they would be in wire. I haven’t tried the love’s embrace one yet, but it’s on my to-do list. I can’t wait to see how yours turns out!

    • Kimberly Dowd January 15, 2010 at 10:15 pm #

      I’m working on it tonight and I’ll post a pic when I’m done. I’m really new at wirework so I just mangle things until they look okay. :)

  2. WiredStones January 18, 2010 at 7:40 pm #

    That’s what craft wire is for. :) I’ve got copper practice wire that I bought when copper wasn’t $$$/pound.. it’s lasted for a good long time, and I don’t know what I’d do without it.