With a New Year starts a new rotation of individual quarterly exchanges:
February-April; May-July and August-October. For this quarter’s
exchange, I decided to use some of the ornaments left over from 2014
Christmas. Many of the ornaments I made used wooden spools, painted
with finger nail lacquer and I used scrap-booking paper (along with
paper I designed). I decided to add another element to the left over
ornaments, to create a new design. Several years ago, I purchased a
gross of various Christmas jewelry which had lots of Christmas themed
charms.
The tools I used to make the new ornaments.
Here’s a shot of the elements used in the ornaments. Inside the spindle hole I used 6mm faux pearls to help stabilize the ornament, preventing it from sliding back and forth on the 20 gauge wire. Went though and replace the head-pin with an eye-pin which allowed the dangle to be attached. Had four different charms, with four different colored spools.
All four finished re-purposed ornaments.
The ornaments will be mailed to Nova Scotia later this week.
