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Updating with Metal at Etsy

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fine silver, silver, links, jewelryThese are some of the latest metal items I’ve added to my Etsy shop, along with some sterling silver charms, a few of which I cast a ga-zillion years ago. I’m toying with the idea of maybe focusing more on metal for while over there. We’ll see, though.

I made these using PMC3 and a few simple circle cutters. I sort of think of these as flat beads since they have holes, but probably the term “link” is a better way to describe them.

I have more ready to fire. After firing them and filing them some, I texture them with a ball peen hammer. Fine silver is great to hammer on because you can get some really good texture going with not that much effort. What exactly would I do with these myself, I keep waffling on.

Links are so popular right now, so I know there are a lot of different design possibilities. I made them originally thinking I could add them as cool accent points throughout a beaded necklace, maybe even add some fiber tied around a few of them. But, then again, they’d make some easy and interesting earrings as well, maybe attached to some chain and dangling from an ear hook, all in silver?

Any ideas on how to use these in a jewelry design? I’m open to suggestions.

Author: Tammy

Welcome to the Crafty Princess Diaries, my weblog and site where I get to blab about my passion for crafts, primarily jewelry making, and my crafting career. My name is Tammy Powley, and I decided to call my blog the Crafty Princess Diaries because of this very dorky picture I have of myself and because my husband often refers to me as “the princess and the pea,” which is just another way to say that I tend to be particular sometimes. Along with this weblog, I have a number of jewelry making books published.

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