Belt Buckles...My Newest Obsession

O.K...it's been awhile since I talked about having a wild hair.  Some of my best stuff has been the result of said hair!  My wild hair projects are usually an excursion....this   one seems to have become an obession... 

 

This was the first bunch.  I started with flowers made from turquoise and red glass beads filled in with textured white stained glass.  And...you can see what came after.



This was the second bunch.  I was trying to cover a wide range of tastes...how'd I do?

 







Here's the third bunch....right....I can't make two alike.  I will have to force myself to make more Colorado flags and Marijuana leaves.  My friend Viv says "Give the people what they want!"

My big departure here was my first try with epoxy instead of grout...

 

I used Italian millefiori in varying sizes along with some mottled stained glass,  finishing off with a cool pewter button.  And then...epoxy.  I think I may have a winner...I hope so anyway.

 

My next endeaver is a beaded buckle.  It's way more time consuming placing many of the beads one by one with a pair of tweezers.  I'll add it here when it's done!  

 

Thanks for stopping by...I hope you enjoyed it.  If you are interested in buying a buckle just let me know.  I have some in a shop locally, but the others I can sell to you directly, or I can make one just for you!.
 

Peace

The Yule Log

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Mixed Media Sculpture

    So I was walking round the thrift store one day, looking for nothing in particular. I'll know it when I see it....I find a small log, that's right a log.  It's about 13 inches long and 4 inches in diameter.  It's been varnished and has two holes drilled in it, the right size for tapered candles.  The wax confirms that someone made and used this for a candle holder.  I have no idea what I will use it for, but it appeals to me so I buy  it. 

 

   When Mike spies it on my shelf he asks "What's with the yule log?"  It sits on the shelf in my glass room for quite some time..a couple of years perhaps.Then I go through a sort of phase making little trees out of wire and beads.  Hmmm...I'll just put a tree in each of the holes in the yule log!

 

I make the trees by twisting wire together and adding beads as surrogate leaves.

 

Then I put little rockes around the base of the trees...

 

 

And eventually I add seed beads to indentaions in the log and around two knots.   My son likes it,  so it's his.