Year of Jewelry ~ Weeks 27 & 28

Got gutsy and ordered some sterling silver wire☺

I want to make about a hundred variations of this♥

This one, I think, needs a little tarnish☺

Got a ~free~ tutorial, which is also very, very entertaining and humorous

from a lovely lady named Angelina Krell.

Used it to make this

Not liking the 'shiny'

so I did a little heat patina

in other words, I hit it with a torch☺

and got this.

No.... your monitor is not screwed up...

The bead is "dyed" howlite 

(the tutorial called for a 12mm bead and there wasn't alot in my stash to choose from)

and when I torched the piece, apparently it

burned off the color.

Who knew?

But I like it much better! lol!

I am almost finished with Week 29 & 30 and then I will be all caught up,

for awhile☺