New projects

After a lovely weekend away with my family at a convention where there was a LOT of wonderful art and craft for sale, I find myself reacquainted with the concept of the ear cuff. Trying to figure out in my head how I could make ear cuffs myself got me thinking about wire work, and wire work got me thinking about a tool I had years ago. I discovered that the tool still exists, and exists in a variety of brand new and wonderful ways. Naturally I ordered one almost immediately and I've already spent some time fiddling with it, and excavating other gadgets and supplies from my not-quite-in-useful-order art studio.

The tool I'm talking about is a WigJig, a nifty wire-working tool that allows for all sorts of wire exploration. I ordered a Centaur, which is (obviously) an amalgam of two different types of jigs, that will offer me a lot of possibilities. I've been researching wire options and other things, and I hope to have a few items to put out for sale at a convention in Ontario in a few months.

I'm also working on plans for table space at a few different conventions we go to, where I can put out jewelry and other things I make as well as do tarot readings. I may be joined by a few other artists and a rune reader. Exciting plans afoot!

Meanwhile, this evening I finished up work on a brooch with a polymer clay cabochon.

I still have to finish the back with leather and add a pinback with a bail, so it can be a pendant as well as a brooch.