Category: faery home decor

[ A three inch wide, six inch long flat golden-copper ring in an almost rectangular shape reminiscent of a teddy bear, with small specks and eight holes equally spaced around the edge. It hangs suspended from two copper wire hooks through holes on the short ends. Hanging below it from some of the other holes are multiple chains of reddish-brown and amber beads. Some of these chains wrap around a small clear glass jar, the appropriate size to hold a tealight. Viewed here from above. ]

Okay, not a process post as such, because I took all the pictures afterwards, but I DO wanna show off because I am EXTREMELY proud of this piece. Continue reading process: Determination

[ The usual cupcake tray full of beads & such sits on the wooden shelf, along with a bendy piece of driftwood & an arch-shaped bit of copper wire with blue & gold-coloured beads fastened to it. ]

I started this one at home & as usual didn’t manage to take pictures at my workbench, so this is where I was when I set up by the lake for the day. Continue reading process: lapis III

[ An aluminum cupcake tray. The hollows hold beads in a couple shades of blue & silver, and some white seaglass pieces wrapped in tarnished copper wire. Atop the tray are spools of copper wire, a piece of driftwood, & a tube from a wind chime. ]

What I started with! Continue reading process: lapis

[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry.  Optimism! ]

I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right? Continue reading process post: festoon: amaranthine

[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ]

I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened & everything suddenly made sense. Continue reading process post — festoon

[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ]

As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what it was gonna be called, so I grabbed some smaller sticks & some wire, & wow, was that not a lot to go on. Monday I rearranged the sticks a bunch of times & they didn’t do anything illuminating, so I figured I might be messing around a while to get them sitting the way they wanted to. Continue reading process post: wires & sticks