August just flew by, didn't it? In addition to moving my daughter into a new apartment for college and painting it and generally trying to make it not a slum anymore lol, I took an intensive class at the Glass Center with JC Herrell, took a trip to Scotland with my family, moved Jason's kids into their dorms at IUP and had a Facebook trunk show on Glass Melters Open Market! AND it's time for the August Component of the Month with Diana Ptaszynski.
As usual, I didn't take a photo of the component when I got it, but it was this awesome stoneware coin pendant. My idea didn't some to fruition (I think I say that a lot); I was going to use one of the bails pictured below, that I found at Lima Beads. While they are lovely, the color just didn't go with the focal or my idea.
Fast forward panic - what to do? I really hate gluing bails on pieces of art, but decided in this case if I wanted to get anything done, I would need to go with the flow. So I found one of these bails in my pile-o-stuff and glued it to Diana's gorgeous pendant.
I was initially going to make a multi-strand necklace, but it just didn't work out that way. I think if I redid this, I would use size 6 turquoise beads and size 8 bronze beads, just to get the sizing better. But I do like the necklace!
The colors of seed beads go perfectly! Please check out what everyone else made by visiting the blogs in this list below! Thank you to Diana for providing this months beautiful component! And thanks for stopping by!
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Comments
You have had a really busy summer. I love you simple yet beautiful necklace, the rope you created compliments the pendant to a tee.
Therese