kellan_the_tabby: (wedding)
2024 09 16 17.50.07

[ Three rusty pallet nails, each wrapped in copper wire just under the head. A loop of copper wire sticks up above the head, as well. In the background are more nails, and a curve of hammered copper wire. ]

I keep getting Ideas, is what.

It’s honestly kind of fun.

I’ve been meaning to start using old pallet nails in stuff for YEARS now, or at least since about three minutes after I started pulling pallets apart. But now I have enough brain to actually _do_ that, & it turned out to be WAY easier than it might have been.

NGL I had fun putting this together, between the nails, the BIG nail, the hunk of really thick aluminum wire, & that vertical metal bit in the middle, which I picked up from right in front of the front door, after walking past it for half a year & thinking it was probably leather.

2024 09 16 18.00.21

[ It’s a wider version of the first picture — a long length of copper makes a roughly horizontal S, with a shorter one in approximately a J. A small spiral of aluminum wire sits between the two copper pieces; a big nail stretches across the top of the piece, with smaller, rusty nails lined up below it; and a narrow, slightly wavy hunk of metal runs straight down the center. ]

The nails make a nice fringe sort of thing, & I couldn’t help but to pick some _very_ good blues to go with the rest.

2024 09 16 21.17.46

[ A third length of copper wire, with a spiral on one end and a loop on the other, has been added to the rest; another copper spiral, this with a long cobalt blue glass bead threaded into it, hangs from it. Eight rusty nails now hang from the longer nail, and a variety of cobalt blue glass beads, along with some large clear ones, have been added in strategic spots. ]

I just … started making curves, for this one.

2024 09 23 19.56.15

[ A n unevenly trapezoidal frame holds four lengths of copper wire — each starts at the upper left corner, and they radiate out from there to cover nearly the entire bottom edge of the trapezoid. Three end in spirals; the fourth ends in a simple loop. ]

Looking at that, you may wonder how I’d planned to connect the four end bits at the upper left. The answer is ‘buggered if I know, I’ll figure it out tomorrow’. It actually took me a week, but I got there, using the tried & true ‘keep wrapping wire around it til it gives up’ method.

2024 09 29 15.38.36

[ A blurry close view of that spot in the finished piece — a length of wire has been wrapped around the base of each copper piece in turn, then back around each in the opposite direction. The same wire then runs back down, between each pair of copper pieces, then around the frame. ]

I only had to go back & forth three times, I feel like that was a pretty good job.

2024 09 29 15.38.35

[ The finished piece — various purple and off-white beads have been draped across the frame and the copper. A dangly bit hangs from the one loop, off to the left. ]

Neither of these is in the shop yet; I’m hoping for next week.


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kellan_the_tabby: (wedding)
2024 03 09 15.48.25

[ Sitting on my usual work surface, an old mouse pad, is a rusty piece of formerly-flat sheet steel, perhaps an inch and a quarter wide and maybe six long, with one long edge folded over. It’s been weathered, worn, and run over such that it’s now creased in a number of places, with one end turned until it’s ninety degrees from the rest. Under it are a number of pieces of thick copper wire, cut into various shapes. ]

I’ve had that hunk of metal kicking around for YEARS now, & every once in a while I’d pull it out, stare at it for a couple minutes, & then put it back, because I did NOT know what to do with it. Making my usual attachment points all the way around the ends felt cumbersome, the one single hole was NOT enough on its own for an entire piece, & past that, I just didn’t know how to handle it.

Round about March, while planning an entire month of faery home decor pieces (alas for that plan!) I pulled it out once again, stared at it for a long moment, then started groping for wire and the closest set of pliers, because I KNEW WHAT I NEEDED TO DO.

(miiiight have sounded a bit like a mad scientist in that moment. or, you know, the dude who yells portentously about knowing what he needs to do.)

This is a totally new way of doing things for me & I am VERY happy about that, because I got to PLAY & that’s AWESOME.

Of course, hammering & texturing the bits that would show was kinda tricky.

2024 05 01 14.14.05

[ My rectangular jewelry anvil is sitting on the mouse pad, and I’m holding a curved piece of copper wire so that part of it sits just at the edge of the anvil; the way it’s curved means it can’t sit any further in, but the part that needed to be hammered and textured is done. ]

I’ve done very little three-dimensional wire stuff that needed hammered, & things definitely needed to happen in ways that they don’t when the wire is flat, but I got it figured it, & it was a good first exercise in How to Do the Thing.

Next up, wrapping the wire around (& through) the rusty bit in the manner I’d planned for it to, & then, importantly, getting it to stay there!

2024 05 01 14.18.39

[ The very end of the rusty piece has an attachment point on it — I did wind up needing them — but the focus of this picture is on the spot where one end of the wire goes through the single hole in the rusty bit, then was folded over and hammered so it’s firmly in place. ]

This took some fiddling. The wire fit fine when I first bent it into shape, of course, but hammering will always change that shape some — quick! Can someone tell me why that is? — & so I had to have at with the pliers some, but it turned out okay, & once it was where I wanted it, I hammered the bend at the other side of the rusty bit so it would STAY there.

2024 05 01 14.20.35

[ A view down the length of the rusty bit: the far end is blurry, but the close end features copper wire that comes up and over what will be the top edge of the rusty bit, then back down the other side. ]

Hard part done, now I just had to finish the rest! It would be easy! I’d already planned it out!

AHAHAHA nope. That wasn’t going to work at all! It would be far too sparse! Leaving negative space is all well & good, but that was too much!

So (once I got home, having forgotten to bring spare wire at all, in fact), I whipped out my wire, cut a couple extra bits, hammered em real quick, & voila! ready!

2024 05 09 17.32.59

[ All the copper wire bits are hammered and in place! Two descending arcs hang below the rusty bit; one is part of what wraps around it, and is on the small side; the other, larger one, will hang between the first one and one of the fastening points on the left side. A long wavy bit sits below the other fastening point on the left, and a spiral sits below the very end of the wire that wraps around the rusty bit, which hangs down on the right side and ends in a loop. ]

AHAHAHA no. Still gotta do the beads. I’d picked out a couple I thought might work, as pictured below:

2024 05 09 17.35.16

[ Six of the little jars, seen from above, hold a variety of beads in small plastic jars: one row has small blue-purple ones next to larger round amethyst, with even larger, faceted purple beads next to them; the last look almost black in this light. The other row has clear-white leaf beads at the top, with oval silver-colored beads with black accents below them, and at the bottom, larger silver-colored beads that pretty much look like you took a bunch of grapes, then made it round and painted it with metallic silver spray paint. ]

Oh, the wavy bits went just fine, only the smallest of the beads were going to work anyways.

2024 05 09 17.46.18

[ The longest of the wavy pieces now has beads wired to it in mirrored arcs, each of which has a single oval silvery bead with two of the smallest purple beads on each side. ]

I got those done, then put them in place, or at least stuck them where (I thought) they were going.

2024 05 09 18.05.05

[ The three shorter wavy pieces sit just below the longer arc; the fourth, longest one, sits at one of the left side fastening points. ]

But then it was time for danglies, & you really need more size variation for danglies, so I dug out the faceted beads — I don’t do a lot with faceted stones, but these are, well, _purple_ — & took a look. At which point I found that they were _far_ too different a purple to go with my little spacer beads.

2024 05 09 18.06.04

[ The faceted bead is very much a reddish purple; the smaller spacer beads are a blue-purple, what some people call indigo. ]

This would likely work fine for a lot of folks but I have a hard time putting together things that cross the line between cool & warm colors, so that was out. I still had the amethyst, though …

2024 05 09 18.07.34

[ Six amethyst beads, two of the oval silvery ones, and one of the big silvery ones with the bumpies sit in sort of a linear clump. ]

Better, but … the bumpy silvery one was just _too_ much brighter & bigger. Well, I’d been wanting to use the leaves anyway …

2024 05 09 18.08.02

[ The same clump of beads, with a translucent white leaf bead in place of the silvery bead. ]

… yeah, that’s the ticket.

After all that I only wound up making three danglies (although I’m still considering another dangly to go next to the long one — at least, where the long one eventually wound up).

2024 05 09 18.24.58

[ The longer dangly is sitting right above the larger of the two arcs, below a smaller third arc that I’d forgotten to mention; this one hangs down from where the hammered copper goes through the rusty bit, down to form the arc, and back up over the rusty bit. The two smaller ones hang from the other other arc on the right. ]

… & that’s when I stopped taking pictures. Because it turns out that there really wasn’t QUITE enough space for that longer dangly to fit without hitting the big arc. I spent a while messing with the shape of the arc — it’s taller & narrower than it was, though not so much that most people would notice — but it was stubborn, & the hammer wasn’t going to get me anywhere, so I swapped the long one to the right, hung one of the smaller ones from that spot, & made a loop at the top end of the right-side arc to hang the other small one. YARGH, this gets hard to describe in words.

Next up, I found that the long wavy piece, when hung on the left, was too close to the left side of the big arc, & the two sort of blurred together. That was an easy fix; swap the wavy bit with the spiral on the other side.

Then it was just wrapping the various danglies onto the various arcs with spacer beads in various numbers in between, plus last-minute tweaking of shapes, then hanging the whole thing up & GLARING at it for a while, & then, THEN, I was done.

… y’all. It was a LOT. But now it looks like this.

2024 06 21 18.15.34

[ The finished piece! As described throughout the post, pretty much, but: A roughly rectangular piece of rusty metal, adorned with hammered copper wire in hanging arcs, which are decorated with purple, white, and silvery beads. ]

Haven’t posted this one yet either, but I just put together a(nother) new picture taking setup, so with a lot of luck it’ll go up soon!


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kellan_the_tabby: (wedding)
2024 04 17 14.29.49

[ A length of aluminum wire with small loops at each end; it’s been crossed over itself, curving up and then tightly back down on the left, more gently on the right. Above it sits a hammered copper wire s-hook; inside the area within the wire is a spiral; and an inverted arch of wire arcs from one loop to the other. ]

It turns out that ‘lay it out now, hammer it later’ works out pretty well for actually getting these done — since starting is the hard part, after all. But since I can only do a bit once I start, until I’m somewhere I can hammer things, starting is an easier bump to get over.

… not that I’ve started any since I laid out those four, but, welp. Little steps. I had to clean a thousand things first. No, really, this place is a PIT.

but ANYWAY I’ve gotten FOUR faery home decor pieces done & since I’ve only put TWO of them up, only TWO have been sold, which means the NEXT TWO are STILL AVAILABLE or at least will be once I’ve gotten pics & done the thing.

I just. There’s a lot going on, okay, & too much of it is sleeping, especially for how tired I still am all the damn time.

ANYWAY here’s about this one, which I dutifully made from warm autumn tones because if I don’t do those sometimes I’ll have a huge collection of warm-toned beads I’m not terribly fond of. SOME OF YOU LIKE THEM SO IT’S JUST FINE.

2024 04 17 14.30.15

[ A closer view; two dangly bits, each with a green glass leaf at the bottom with yellow glass and wood beads above it, sit just below where the aluminum wire crosses over itself. ]

I had to mess around a bunch to make this work, but I knew from the beginning how many dangles I’d have to work with, because I didn’t have more than a couple of each color of the glass leaves. I just had to do a whole bunch of these:

2024 04 17 14.30.34

[ A closer view of one of the dangles; the thin copper wire drops down to the green glass leaf, passing through two yellow glass beads with a wooden bead in between them, then goes through the hole in the leaf and back up. It twists around itself, then around the three smaller beads at an angle, then wraps around itself again to finish off the loop at the top. ]

& then figure out what was going where.

2024 04 17 14.31.02

[ Four small, clear plastic jars with beads in them; one holds glass leaves in various autumn colors, another holds glass pony beads in a similar palette; a third holds short cylindrical wood beads, and the fourth holds opaque brown pony beads. ]

I didn’t wind up using the brown beads, which is kind of a shame, since there’s still a lot of them; but I’m more than happy enough with how things turned out. Especially considering that once I sorted things properly, there was PRECISELY the right number of those glass pony beads to go with the glass leaves.

& then I DID NOT DROP ANY OF THEM. I’d call the Pope, but I don’t think he’s done enough stuff with beads to realize that’s a genuine-ass miracle.

… anyway

2024 04 17 14.51.50

[ Dangles! The ones with green glass leaves have yellow pony beads; the three with yellow leaves have green pony beads; and the two with red leaves have purple pony beads. Two green ones, with a yellow dangly in between, sit below where the aluminum wire crosses itself; three more yellow ones, interspersed with two red, sit below the copper arc. ]

& then I had everything laid out! & having not dropped any of the beads, I decided to see if I could use PRECISELY the number of red beads I had to finish the whole thing off! There’s eight of them, it can’t be hard!

2024 04 17 14.51.57

[ Eight small red glass pony beads sit in one of the little jars. ]

… which is when I stopped taking pictures, because of COURSE it didn’t work out like that. See, that damn spiral would NOT fit in the place I’d planned for it, no matter what I did, & I tried a BUNCH of things. So I had to rearrange everything, & then I had to sulk, & then I had to count eight red beads a bunch of times, & rearrange everything AGAIN, & then mess around with the wire some …

There Lies A Leafy Island 1

[ The finished piece. The spiral now hangs in between the two green dangles, all of them held in place by thin copper wire wrapped around the aluminum, with single red pony beads between them and one to either side. The yellow dangly has switched places with the spiral, hanging inside the bigger loop, just below the s-hook; more copper wire holds both in place, with wooden beads, two on each side, held to the aluminum wire between them. The other five dangles hang from the lower copper arc, which has been wrapped in much thinner aluminum wire; to each side, where the arc gets closer to being vertical, are two more red pony beads, adding up to eight total. ]

… anyway, it did work out, & this one also sold immediately, so the important part is it came out nice & someone loves it enough to send me a money about it. I’m good with that.


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kellan_the_tabby: (wedding)
2024 04 18 15.26.40

[ A length of weathered and slightly rusty steel wire, in the shape of a very rough arch; one end has been curled into a spiral, while the other, slightly longer end is bent around into a rough loop. A spiral of hammered copper wire sits just below that end; an s-hook of the same material sits above the arc. Two gently curved lengths of hammered copper wire sit between the arms of the arc, the lower one extending beyond it on the left side. ]

I haven’t done one of these posts in SO LONG. But I actually remembered to take pictures! My brain must be kinda working? or something?

Anyway I don’t tend to do much hammering at home these days, there’s nearly always someone else around & it’s LOUD, but there’s a nice shady spot with tables just outside our one doctor’s office, so when I’ve given Jasper a ride there & I’m gonna be waiting a while, I bring my jewelry bag & work on stuff. I’d gotten the copper for four faery home decor pieces cut & bent, the beads all picked out, & everything for each one stuffed into a separate ziploc, so I stuck two in with the jewelry stuff & brought em along.

… & then once I’d hammered the copper for the first one, I got all caught up working on it & didn’t get to the second one til the week after, welp.

The pic up top is all the pieces laid out, once I’d gotten the hammering done. & just below are the beads I picked out, & the gold-colored wire I decided to use.

2024 04 18 15.31.26

[ Sitting on a work surface that looks like someone sewed blue fabric to a mouse pad are a spool of gold-colored wire, a pair of round-nosed jewelry pliers, a little plastic jar with faintly yellow-tinged round beads which are clearly meant to evoke pearls, and another little jar with blue glass beads and larger conical faceted beads that are sort of clear with blue overtones. ]

I knew I was going to use the cone beads for danglies — I’d known that as soon as I saw them — so it was just a question of how to put them together. The upper cross piece by necessity was going to need shorter danglies, since it’s close to the one below it, & those went together fast.

2024 04 18 15.43.15

[ Three danglies, each with one of the cone beads at the bottom, point down, with three of the blue glass beads strung onto wire above them. They’re sitting just below the shorter copper cross piece; two have already been hooked in place by wire wrapped around the cross piece, and the third is waiting its turn. ]

Then longer ones for the bottom cross piece, but much the same theme.

2024 04 18 15.54.40

[ A single dangly; it’s similar to the shorter ones, but instead of three small blue beads, there are two, then one of the not-pearls, then two more of the blue beads. ]

Five of those, & then I needed to figure out how I wanted to handle the extra-special one to go on the sticky-out end of the lower cross piece.

2024 04 18 16.10.21

[ Three of the longer danglies sit next to the extra-special conical bead, which has a fancy metal bead cap on its wider end. ]

The problem was that the not-pearls & the blue beads are the same width, even though the not-pearls are round & the blue ones are flattened circles, so the not-pearls stand out a bit, but not enough. I dug through my jewelry bag to see if I had anything larger that would work there instead, but there wasn’t anything suitable, so I tabled that & moved on to the next bit.

Which is where I made a mistake. See, the next bit was winding wire around the steel piece, & I wasn’t sure if I wanted to use the blue beads or the not-pearls there, so I quickly wrapped one of each in place to see which one my brain liked better.

2024 04 18 16.21.52

[ A close view of each of the little jars; the one with the blue beads doesn’t have any conical ones in it, now. There’s also the spiralled end of the steel wire, which has thinner gold-colored wire wrapped around it, holding a blue bead in place with one wrap and a not-pearl with the next. ]

My brain, predictably, say ‘yes that looks amazing just like that, perfect’ & thus I was required to do the whole thing with alternating blue and not-pearl beads.

… I’m not unhappy about that. tbh I think it looks pretty damn good.

& that’s where I stopped taking pictures, because I couldn’t finish up the rest until I got home & found a good bead for the last piece, at which point I forgot all about the existence of cameras, as I usually do.

But you can see below how it turned out. It turned out GOOD.

Til The Moon Has Taken Flight 1

[ The finished piece: it’s arranged as it was in the first picture, but now the upper cross piece has the three short dangles hanging from it, the lower one has the five longer ones, the extra-special dangly has a clear round glass bead in place of the not-pearls in the longer ones, and the entire hunk of steel wire is wrapped round with gold-colored wire holding alternating blue and not-pearl beads in place. ]

In fact you kind of have to look here, because it’s not listed on my site; someone bought it five minutes after I posted it.

… yeah, I’m pretty proud of that.


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kellan_the_tabby: (wedding)
2023-04-12 13.57.15

[ A meadow, currently covered in brown grass and scattered with trees, is seen through the frame of a metal shade pavilion. There’s a fence in front of it all, but that’s just because part of it’s a baseball field. ]

It’s not QUITE warm enough for Woods Day yet — give it another week — & Jasper needed to get Remy out to practice dealing with DOGS & PEOPLE & SQUIRRELS (oh MY), so instead we went to the park.

Of course I brought Loiosh! I don’t wanna DIE.

My setup wasn’t QUITE the same as usual, but it more-or-less worked:

2023-04-12 13.53.40

[ Instead of my usual wooden worktop and folding chair, my stuff is spread across a picnic table with a bench. My canvas jewelry tool bag sits next to a water bottle and a pile of jewelry tools, driftwood and copper wire. Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness with a blue bowtie, stands beneath the bench. ]

I’d brought enough stuff to work on two faery home decor pieces — or so I thought, but, welp — & I figured I’d focus on the ‘bang on copper’ parts, because, well, ears.

Ears in two senses, tbh. For one, this way nobody has to listen to CLANG CLANG CLANG echoing through our far-too-tiny house. For another? Me, sitting in a public park, making bang noises with a bunch of stuff gathered around me on a bench. AND there’s a cat on a leash. Eventually, I figure, SOMEONE will get curious & come over to see what I’m doing. & if I get known as ‘that guy who makes jewelry & stuff at the park, & also has a leashcat’? That’s really not a bad thing.

Anyway, here’s where I started.

2023-04-12 13.53.21

[ An old, beat-up mouse pad sits on the picnic table; on top of it is a flat, rectangular jewelry anvil. There’s also a pair of simple jewelry pliers, a light hammer with one flat and one rounded end, a pair of wire snips, two pieces of driftwood, and a skein of copper wire. ]

As usual, I started by framing the whole thing out. I like this as a layout:

2023-04-12 14.12.26

[ The smaller piece of driftwood sits on the mouse pad. Above it is a small, ornate s-hook of thick copper wire; below, left to right, is a spiral with the tail leading up to the stick, a broad inverted u with both ends just about meeting the stick, and a third inverted u, this one running from the right side of the first u up to the right end of the stick. ]

After that I just hadda hammer stuff. A bunch.

I haven’t been doing near enough hammering lately, so I kept needing to take breaks. Most of them I’d get up & stretch a bunch, since I also haven’t been doing near enough of that. Sometimes I hadda untangle Loiosh. Sometimes I just hung out & watched the birds.

Eventually, sufficient hammering:

2023-04-12 14.33.56

[ All the copper pieces described above have been hammered flat, then textured with the rounded end of the hammer. They’re piled on the jewelry anvil, with the hammer posed next to them in what I really hope is a photogenic sort of way. ]

Having accomplished that, I started on the second & larger driftwood bit, only to discover that I only had six(6) inches of that thick wire left. So I made a spiral out of it & started putting everything away; it’ll happen next time, once I’ve pried more wire out of the tangle it’s currently in. That’s about when Jasper & Remy wandered back up, so that worked out pretty well.

Did I wind up with an audience as I’d hoped?

2023-04-12 14.24.52

[ The shaded area has a bunch of picnic tables; beyond it is a parking lot, with my van more-or-less in the middle. There’s a jackdaw under one of the tables. or possibly a starling, I’m never sure which is which. Anyway small black crow relative, eyeing me up from a safe distance. ]

… kind of.


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[ In a clearing in the woods, a folding chair sits at a small wooden workbench. The bench holds a scattering of items, including a rusty piece of metal and a white plastic water bottle. ]

What a lovely place to ACTUALLY REMEMBER TO TAKE PICTURES WHILE I’M WORKING.

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[ A close view of Loiosh’s face — he’s an orange tabby, with white whiskers, and a couple of black freckles on his pink nose. ]

… but how could such a sweet, adorable boy possibly be such a trouble, you ask?

Like this, y’all. Like this.

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[ Closeup of weathered copper tubing, bent into a V shape, with copper wire bent into a similar shape and fastened on with really thin copper wire. ]

… more a ‘here is a thing I made’ than a process post as such, I’ve really gotten out of the habit of taking pics as I go, but, well.

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[ A piece of white seaglass, shaped like the point of a spear & wrapped in thick copper wire, dangles from the center of a shallow arc of more wire; on either side of it are dangles with silvery-grey beads, with cowrie shells hanging from the bottoms. ]

Not really a process post, cos I didn’t take the pics until after I was done, but close enough.

This is another custom faery home decor piece, made for a Patreon patron; the prompt was ‘ocean’.

I had something else in my head for this, but decided it wasn’t quite the right place for it; I’ll save it for another time, & instead dug out the cowrie shells & silvery-grey beads. The grey wire — I think it’s florist’s wire? — was an easy choice, & finding the already-wrapped seaglass in the bottom of my work bag was PERFECT.

Also perfect was the other half of the piece the seaglass originally came from; I needed something to hang the obligatory spiral from, & that lil piece of driftwood was JUST the right size.

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[ A small piece of flattish driftwood, perhaps an inch long, hangs from another arc of flattened copper wire; below it is a hammered copper spiral. ]

Et voila, the whole piece!

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[ A slightly-curved driftwood stick, perhaps ten inches long, forms the center of this piece. Above and below are curved lengths of hammered copper wire, from which hang an assortment of objects: a hammered copper spiral, a piece of white seaglass wrapped in yet more copper wire, silvery-grey beads, and cowrie shells. ]


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[ An aluminum foil cupcake tray holds a selection of beads, most of them either purple or green, and a driftwood stick. ]

Way back in fifth grade, I got into a HUGE argument with another kid about wearing green & purple clothing together. She insisted that they clashed & should not EVER be worn at the same time. I thought I looked JUST FINE, THANK YOU. We agreed that the final arbiter should be that true icon of fashion, our teacher.

Poor dude was probably in his 50s (at least that’s how I’m translating my view of him at the time, which was ‘old’). He wore plaid shirts & tan slacks. He knew he was OUT OF HIS DEPTH.

I don’t know if he was actually colour-blind or just claimed he was, but either way, well done, sir. He disclaimed any ability to judge in this circumstance & left it to us to decide our clothing preferences.

All of this is to say that YEAH THEY DO TOO NEITHER GO TOGETHER SO THERE.

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[ A three inch wide, six inch long flat golden-copper ring in an almost rectangular shape reminiscent of a teddy bear, with small specks and eight holes equally spaced around the edge. It hangs suspended from two copper wire hooks through holes on the short ends. Hanging below it from some of the other holes are multiple chains of reddish-brown and amber beads. Some of these chains wrap around a small clear glass jar, the appropriate size to hold a tealight. Viewed here from above. ]

Okay, not a process post as such, because I took all the pictures afterwards, but I DO wanna show off because I am EXTREMELY proud of this piece.

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20201117_131447

[ The usual cupcake tray full of beads & such sits on the wooden shelf, along with a bendy piece of driftwood & an arch-shaped bit of copper wire with blue & gold-coloured beads fastened to it. ]

I started this one at home & as usual didn’t manage to take pictures at my workbench, so this is where I was when I set up by the lake for the day.

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[ An aluminum cupcake tray. The hollows hold beads in a couple shades of blue & silver, and some white seaglass pieces wrapped in tarnished copper wire. Atop the tray are spools of copper wire, a piece of driftwood, & a tube from a wind chime. ]

What I started with!

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[ A good stick, a bunch of copper wire, & some beads. ]

Above, the ingredients!

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20201003_142123

[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry.  Optimism! ]

I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?

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20200922_142307

[ 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.

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20200915_135322

[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ]

As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what it was gonna be called, so I grabbed some smaller sticks & some wire, & wow, was that not a lot to go on. Monday I rearranged the sticks a bunch of times & they didn’t do anything illuminating, so I figured I might be messing around a while to get them sitting the way they wanted to.

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20200901_125126

This thing where they’re telling me their names as soon as I pick up the right pieces, I’m kinda liking it.

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20200825_151829

I found this rusty weird-ass chunk of wire in the backyard of a house in Albuquerque, & I knew right away it was gonna turn into something like this. When I tucked it into the basket to go out to the woods yesterday, it told me its name: Suspend.

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20200818_144312

Apparently Woods Day is also Make A Big Piece For Trickster’s Trash Day these days. I’m good with that.

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