Purple mists pendant

This has been my favourite pendant to wear lately. A bit of cream at the top, the rest is different shades and translucenties of purples going to almost black at the very bottom. Some of the swirls have a silvery glistering lining to them which I had trouble capturing in the picture.

Ok here we are

This is a gift for a friend. It can be worn as a necklace or hung in the window as a sun catcher. These wonky disks are one of my favourite types of beads. I think you'll like it too.

A long time ago

Oh my, has it been so long? I will be posting some new pictures very soon.

Trying out some pendants

I tried some off mandrel pendants with implosions. They're fun to make and improve my glass control. Here are some of my first attempts.

Some random beads

Here are a few beads I made a while ago. I'm making a new supply of disks as I used most of them making suncatchers as gifts.

 And this silverglass pendant has a nice feel to it.

 

The felted picture

Last time I left off not too happy with my design and waiting for my felting needles to arrive in the post. In the meantime I completely changed the design of this piece, going for more fun elements and bolder colors. This fits a lot better in a boy's room. I got the felting needles, but my problems didn't end there. As it turned out, the felting didn't go very well because the holder that the needles were in, didn't allow them to penetrate deep enough through the layers of wool to be effective. So while I was punching that thing ever so intensely, the felting effect was very light and superficial:

Thinking at first that the needles weren't good, I discovered the cutest little store here in The Hague called Sari, full of Waldorfy crafts and fantasies. With Christmas weekend and all I didn't feel like ordering from a web shop. There I got new needles, but not a new holder as I wasn't aware yet, that that was the problem.  Anyways, now I'm working on this thing with a single needle in my bare hand, which works, but takes forever. I'm almost ready for the wet felting stage but still need to work on a few thin patches and some more detailing. This is how far I got last night:

woollies

My son has the cutest woolly slippers from Vancouver (a gift from a friend), but he's already worn through them twice and now they're definitely too small, his toe is poking out the front. I was rather dissappointed by the selection of slippers I found in the stores. They often have a hard sole or are made of synthetic materials. Or they only come in tiny baby sizes. I had a piece of leather from my dad, and some beautifully died wool from the same woman who makes the slippers, so I decided to try and replicate them:

The first attempt ( I hadn't made a cuff yet) turned out really cute but too small...