Prøver ut litt nye metoder

(English below)

Det er morsomt å prøve ut litt forskjellige metoder for å lage smykker og annet. Jeg har slitt med en dårlig arm i noen uker som har gjort det vanskelig å lage større ting. Senebetennelse i albuen/armen er bare dumt.

Men fordelen er at jeg får muligheten til å kose meg med nye metoder som krever litt andre bevegelser og er mindre krevende som sådan.

Dette er blant annet å flette med metall wire, noe som er helt nytt for meg.
Jeg begynner alltid med en opplæringsvideo fra YouTube, men det er ikke alltid så enkelt å finne de rette størrelsen på smykke wire. Eller jeg har slitt litt med det. Løsningen har vært å tvinne flere tynne tråder sammen for å skape en perfekt tykkelse.

Trying out new methods and having fun with metal wires at the moment. I am still trying it out, starting with instruction videos online and then adding my own flavour to it. Fun and interesting!
Below you will see a couple of the jewerly I have made the last weeks. Feel free to comment! :-)

A little bird whispered in my ear.....

I had a couple of small metal birds in different shapes. So I thought I would make a couple of earrings with these birds and a couple of blue beads.

This is the result. I thought they were cute. Two different pairs.

Earings with blue and white beads

I was just playing around with some colors and also thinking about making some earings. I love earings, but I can not seem to get it right. Well, here is yet another try.

I love large earings myself, so I thought I would make use of this silver colored earingbase and add some pearls. So I started making hoops with white beads. 

I felt it was a bit pale with only white, so I added blue colored beads. The beads were not uniform, not in size nor in color. So there are some differences in the color, but in my opinion that can be very wonderfull with a bit of differences in the shades.

A bit of color....

Finished with one.

Here are the pair finished, but I do feel that something is missing. So I added a bit:

I don't know if this was a good choice, but I will leave it for now. The good thing with this type of work is that I can always take it apart again, and use the parts to something else.