Sunday, September 23, 2012

Bits and Pieces

Another photo of stuff in progress. It's a lot of fun to have a box of "parts", in this case clay tiles I've made, and pick and sort through them to assemble things like these brooches and bookmarks.


Both items are a new thing for me. I have a lot of buttons that are too large for bracelets in the way I currently make them, but I still wanted to combine my clay tiles with them for something interesting. The bookmarks are nice little pieces, and I have enough variety in the clay tiles to match the buttons pretty well.

The brooches are also really fun to make. I've got striped tiles that I love to make, and I combine them with the solid texture tiles. They are about 2" (5.08 cm) across. I ordered a bunch of brooch backs, which are on their way from China as I type this. I like to buy "local" as much as I can, but findings like brooch backs all come from China anyway, it seems.



9 comments:

  1. Nice! How do the bookmarks work? Are they paperclip-style or magnetic?

    BTW, a file, sandpaper, maybe a rotary tool and the appropriate wire, and you can make your own brooch backs! Or at least the pin backs, which should be easy enough to sandwich between a tile and a bit of raw clay.

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  2. Thanks, Alison. I've got a bunch of large paperclips with pads to glue the buttons/tiles onto. Ugh, I know I should make an effort to make some findings myself, but I run out of time. Now, if you could come up with some cool wire-twisted book marks with a place to glue my tiles, we should talk.

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  3. Pssst, there's a going to be a surprise for you on my blog!

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  4. Hopping over from Jacqueline's blog. I love your box of goodies. I collect buttons and I love your oversize ones.
    I am sure you can make wonderful things with the materials you have there. B

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    1. Thanks for visiting and for your kind words. I'm not trying to get a button collection as I purchase bunches of them off of Ebay, but then I find some that I like too much to make something out of. Hmmm.

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