The Bento Box

i finally have a photo of a pair of earrings that i completed a while ago.  it’s a scan (not bad) and not an actual camera photo (i’ll try to shoot it this weekend).

simmery is linear earrings featuring chainmaille and gemstone brios.

the chainmaille weave is helm and the brios are smokey quartz, about 12mm i think.  can’t remember which size i used.  can’t give you a length either. will know for sure when i get it uploaded into my etsy shop.

i had the toughest time (and still am) with the wirewrapping of the brios. for some dang reason the wraps loops kept ending crooked, so then the brio wouldn’t hang straight down, even now, and you may have or will notice that the wrapped loops are slightly crooked. but, it’s not so crooked that the brio hang down straight enough.

i was doing pretty well with wrapping loops, but know, sheesh it’s driving me nuts that they don’t come out nicely. oh well, i guess i need to start practicing again.

well, not my favorite, rather it the daughter’s fav color.  the husband bought a new car this past weekend, and it just so happens to be red.  he was going to get a sapphire blue one, but we went to another dealer first and the only one they had left was red.  so he test drove it and fell in love with the car.  and lucky for the daughter, the husband didn’t really care what color it was going to be.  so red it is.

now my car is parked outside since he has the new car and his truck is going anywhere much now.  i’m hoping he’ll sell his truck.  he’s been a truck person since ‘99 and never thought he would go back to a car, but since this new car is a lil’ sporty and has the power and speed that he likes, he may just be willing to give up the truck.  there’s a couple of guys where he works that have offered to buy it from him.  please hubby, do sell so that i can get back my space in the garage.

must be in cyberspace, cuz i sure heck don’t know. what am i talking about you might wonder? my last post: been a while. i went the the laborous trouble of typing out a long post of why i hadn’t posted in a while, some bit of news and all that, only to have the post not even get uploaded. sometimes wordpress just drives me crazy. it’s happened to me before, but i somehow was able to recover the post, or i was dumb enough to re-do it. it could be that i did it on my work pc, which i kinda slow, has firewall issue, yada yada yada. i think from now on i’ll post using my home pc.

here’s the potd:

it’s a helm chain necklace that i finished recently. the focal is a 14ct. brazilian amethyst. this piece was fairly easy to make, my first helm weave. wrapping the brio was the most difficult. for some dang reason it wouldn’t wrap properly for the brio to hang straight. even when it did come out, the wrapped loop is still a bit crooked, but the brio hangs down straight enough. the original length or size of the necklace was maybe 17-17.5 inches, but i had to shorten it because the helm chain wouldn’t sit properly on the neck line to show off the weave. this one is a keeper for me.