Coming Together

I've had lots of charms rattling around the house since I learned how to solder.  I sold a necklace to a neighbor, who told a friend...long story short...I ended up selling 6 necklaces last week!  Well that inspired me to put those charms on chains and get busy.  I'm going to photograph the individual necklaces and put them on etsy, but in the meantime, I'm so excited about my progress that I thought I'd share.

A Box of Treasures

I've been on a soldering roll for the past three days! Last week I decided to dust off my soldering supplies and get to it but it was not meant to be. I soldered my pliers to my jumprings, I burned myself, I forgot to put the lid on my flux cleaner and knocked it over. Luckily, I had the good sense to give it up and go knit. I tried it again a few days later and got my groove back!

As you can see, I've got a couple of different things going on. These are soldered pottery fragments and beach glass that I picked up at Glass Beach back before collecting was prohibited. The little metal tag hanging from the beach glass is a charm I made in Patrik Kusek's PMC class.


This is a mini collage.


And this is one from the vintage photo series. What to do with all of these charms? Maybe I should make the world's largest charm bracelet!