process post — festoon

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ]

I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened & everything suddenly made sense.

If you’re gonna hang things from a thing, you need loops to hang the things from.

[ The driftwood is hanging from a loop & hook attached just about in the middle; three more loops hang down from it. ]

All framed out.

[ Three lengths of thick copper wire have been shaped into shallow u shapes & attached to the loops. There’s also a copper spiral hanging from the stick. ]

Somewhere in here I climbed half a mountain, so I didn’t have NEAR as much time to work on this as I usually do. I wanted to get enough done that I’d remember what I was doing the next day, & I did manage that.

[ one of the u shapes has thin copper wire wound around & around it; five thin white discs that might be mother-of-pearl but are probably plastic hang from the thinner wire, at intervals along the thick wire. ]

Since nearly everything on this piece moves, it wound up being easier to work on after I hung it on a tree. Nice thing about working outside is my work area is pretty easy to adjust.

[ The entire piece is hanging from the hook at the top; which is sort of tucked into a crack in the bark of a tree. ]

I also had a convenient cat food dish to hold my beads!

[ One shallow metal cat food dish, filled with tiny gold-coloured glass beads, a bunch of the white discs, & a lot of ornate gold-coloured plastic beads. ]

This is as far as I got, but it was far enough that I knew exactly where to pick back up the next day.

[ Some of the plastic beads have been made into dangly bits & are hanging from the stick, above the copper u with the white discs. Three, in fact, the center one longer than the other two. ]

I lost a copper jump ring & a bunch of tiny beads, but I found these pressed glass pieces, so I consider that a more-than-even trade.

[ Four small broken pieces of clear glass; they originally had angular, pyramidal bumps molded into them. ]

I worked on it a bunch last night & finished it up this morning, & here’s the finished piece! Since my mom will holler at me if I don’t give the size, it’s 15 inches wide.

[ All three of the u-shaped copper pieces have white discs hanging from them, & three more of the dangles from the gold-coloured beads have been added. ]

Hi Mom!

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Comments

[cassini]

[*noises* this is SO BEAUTIFUL ]

[i dont know if ive still got quite a lot of discs just like that, some natural colour shell and some dyed pastel... if we didnt live quite far apart id be cycling by tomorrow with supplies and my paycheck with a commission request ]

[kellan_the_tabby]

they're fun to play with, if you ever wind up with random wire kicking around i highly recommend you apply them to the discs & also a stick or maybe a rock, it's pretty fun

also THANK

[cassini]

[the last time i did a Go Outside to the riverbank there was a not small pile of driftwood and i do think ive got plenty of wire still. though im just as sure i have no pliers left *sadness* ]

[kellan_the_tabby]

ooch yeah harder without pliers, specially with thick wire :/

if were near, would LEND pliers

DAMNED OCEAN

[cassini]

[lmeow indeed, the ocean is good but not convenient for people who are not far-travelling fish ]

[if i ever get making again youll see it but for now ill live vicariously (or vacantly as i nearly typoed.... Σ:/) through your beautiful items ]

[kellan_the_tabby]

i like seeing stuff you make, it is Good