Fairy Bell Earrings

Here's my Fairy Bell Earrings :)

I'll be listing them today on my Etsy page:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/driftnbleu?ref=search_shop_redirect

Fairy Bells

I made some "Fairy Bells" today !!

They totally remind me of little bells that fairies would luv :)

Cut some copper disks, bent them and then enameled them in fairy like colors.

I think I'll make some earrings out of some of them and then just string up 3 or 4 together to make a Fairy Bell Strand, maybe just to hang in the window, or on your rear view mirror in the car.

I'll post some pics of the completed fairy items and post them on my Etsy page...

Which ones do you like better ?

So I enameled these pennies with the same color, but the pair on the right, I knocked some enamel off so they would have that "rustic, earthy" look.

Which pair do you like better?

I'll be finishing them off later with some dangling beads or stones, then listing them on my Etsy page.

Beachy Earrings

Cute 'lil beachy looking earrings :)

Enameled copper disc with aqua colors dangling from a couple fresh water pearls and some matte turquoise colored beads.

I will list them soon on my Etsy page.

Crusty Rusty Sticks and Tubes

I love trying to make nice shiny copper look like old rusty pieces !

Here's a few tubes and some sticks :)

Playing with Lincoln on Presidents Day ;p

Making an enamel color palette with pennies.

Minerals from the Tucson Gem Show

My husband and I are always picking up rocks in the desert, we love it.

We've found some pretty nice ones.

So when we go down to the Tucson Gem Show, it's just amazing to us to see all the different minerals and rocks from all over the world.

This year we decided to start a mineral collection, here's a few pics of what we got:

Pyrite, I know, I know, it looks fake huh !  Isn't it awesome!!  It grows in perfect cubes!

Here's a big hunk of Azurite/Malachite, the color is unbelievable !!

This one is called Crocolite, its from Australia, some of the specimens had these really large orange spikes coming out all over, there were very expensive !!

Can you imagine digging somewhere and finding these beauties ?  Wow, just Wow !