Playing with Spoons on a Sunday

27/04/201405/05/2022Claudette

I’ve enjoyed my day today, finishing off some jewellery that has been on my table for a while.

This necklace with large polymer beads is not my usual style, but I thought I would try making something different.
It is interspersed with glass, plastic and metal beads, and strung on sparkly thread.

Spoons ARE my thing at the moment. This lovely glass piece found it’s soul-spoon today.

This spoon is full of tiny little curls I drilled from the beads on the necklace at the top.
Not sure whether to leave it as is, for the texture, or top it with clear resin.

However you spent your Sunday, I hope you enjoyed it.

thanks for listening

jesskawrites 27/04/2014 / 4:52 pm

What’s the difference between polymer clay and normal clay?

And what do you use to drill the holes?

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- Claudette 27/04/2014 / 5:02 pm
  
  Polymer Clay is baked in a normal domestic oven at 130 degrees C to harden/fire it. Can’t tell you the chemical properties, but Google can I am sure. I just drill it with a normal drill bit in the battery drill.
  
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  - jesskawrites 27/04/2014 / 5:14 pm
    
    That’s pretty cool 🙂 I used to love smooshing clay, but for somr reason I’ve hardly touched any since I left school.. 😦
    
    But you drill into round beads! How do you keep them still??
    
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    - Claudette 27/04/2014 / 5:23 pm
      
      mostly i pierce them with a needle whilst they are still wet, then follow that with a slow drill after they are cooked. I hold the bead in one hand and the drill rests on the edge of that table in the other.
      
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wantaps 27/04/2014 / 5:06 pm

Does that spoon work like a pendant?

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- Claudette 27/04/2014 / 5:21 pm
  
  Yes, Put our choice of stringing item through and there you have a necklace.
  
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  - wantaps 27/04/2014 / 5:24 pm
    
    I love that idea! But I dunno how you put that design on the spoon… Can I try it, too? I’m not that creative but I want unique accessories…
    
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Thewitch 27/04/2014 / 5:37 pm

I love that glass piece, Claudette. It looks like it is alive!

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- Claudette 27/04/2014 / 6:57 pm
  
  Thank you. Just wish I had had a larger bit of the coloured dichroic, but only had the teeny bit. That is what life is like I guess
  
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  - Thewitch 27/04/2014 / 8:27 pm
    
    I feel your pain!! I have often been disappointed by teeny dichroics!! 🙂
    
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