12 Days of Christmas…..

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We enjoyed a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, turkey and all the fixings (I enjoyed veggie chicken tenders with my stuffing, potatoes etc), and yummy pies! My pants are tight around the waistband so I decided to wear my fleece sweatpants to feel more comfortable!

I finished up the final charm swap that I am participating in; 12 days of Christmas. I was responsible for creating charms representing ” 8 Maids a Milking.”. I used Patera bezels and ice resin for this project. This was my first time working with ice resin and paper. These did not come out perfect but I learned a lot in the process. I used modge podge on both sides of the paper, but only one coat. It is suggested that two coats are applied and NOT to forget the edges ( I forgot about the edges). Also, it was recommended that the inside of the bezel is coated with modge podge also. Again, this was a step I wasn’t aware about when making the charms. However, achieving an equal balance of resin and hardener was fairly easy and the resin coating in all the bezels dried perfectly, no tackiness. I love love working with Ice Resin, which is non-toxic, and I look forward to using it a lot more for future projects.

Now that the charms are finished and behind me, I will begin my final project/Swap for the year. Several of us are creating necklaces for each other, not knowing who has who. My charm swap buddy has a very different design style from mine, so my goal for this project is to design the necklace with my design influence yet try and incorporate my charm buddy’s style too. This will be interesting…

In the meanwhile I was playing around with creating a low-tech framed bezel. There was no planning that went into this, so this definitely is a prototype. I look forward to re-creating this piece to achieve an a more polished and not so lopsided bezel.
Have a great day!