Thursday, July 1, 2010

My Creative Space - recycling!

First up, to be honest, I made this yesterday but I think it turned out so well I wanted to post about it today. I picked up a pile of sea glass on the holiday my husband proposed (4 years ago now!), and held on to it for sentimental reasons without having a clear idea what I was going to do with it. Then a year ago I stumbled across this blog post and knew it would be perfect and FINALLY I sat down yesterday and got it made.


I think it was quite successful? Makes me wish I had hoarded a lot more sea glass from my travels, is there any rubbish that is prettier then sea glass? I'm also a bit of a romantic so like to make up stories about where the glass came from, a pirate ship, a message in a bottle??

I was expecting this project to be quite fiddly, but it turned out really easy. I ended up using a copper based wire that was super malleable. I only have two concerns, one is that the end of the wire on each piece of glass is a little scratchy, I'm thinking of maybe dropping a little wax on the ends, anyone out there have any other suggestions? I'm also not sure how long it will last, I have never used this technique before so will just have to wear it continually to see how it lasts.

As always heaps more lovely creative spaces here!

5 comments:

  1. I just LOVE this - the fact that you collected the sea glass at such a special time, the fact that you held onto it all this time and the fact that you have eventually made something very beautiful and very unique out of it. Well done! It gives me hope for the things cluttering up my house that I will do something with one day .... x

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  2. this is just so lovely really do love it well done you xx

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