WOYWW #111 - Jewellery Making and V V2 Demise

Well, I am not a happy bunny just now as my No. 2 Victor Vagabond has gone and wented!!! Died, deceased, defunct, is no more, has gone and stopped working!!!! Can you believe it?? I made a lovely rosette one day and the next but one, he would not do ANYTHING!!!! Nothing, nada, zilch !!!

I was making some jewellery this week and my desk looked like this...

 These are the makings of my first pendant. I put a metal butterfly into the frame and poured in UTEE.. You can see the finished piece here....

 For the second piece, I used some other Vintaj bits, a round blank and a large dragonfly.... This is how I found out my Victor had stopped working... I wanted to put the round blank through the machine in a folder, but the engine just went "phutt" and that was that!!! It didn't even try to put it through. So out came the trusty Cuttlebug!!! Thank goodness I kept it, because I would be stuck everytime the Vagabond decides to stop!!!

This is my trinket box - well one of them... I started with this one, and have gone on to have many others, but none bigger than this one... I am making jewellery this week to try to forget how upsetting my mum's behaviour is just now... she is getting worse, progressively, but today she was everso lucid, so that was nice for a change!!!

 So here is that piece, where I popped the two together on the same  ring. I made a hole in his wing with my newest TH toy - a hole maker, which you will see shortly... the folder is a small, flowery border one, then I rubbed and polished to show up the pattern...

I said yesterday, when I showed this piece, that I would make some earrings and wrap the hook, so I did that today and here is what they look like now...

The earrings have these ickle pearly beads inside the flowers, so I used the same ones to add to the copper wire wrapping the hook, and the square beads are the same as those on the necklace.

So here is my desk on Tuesday evening, with that necklace and earrings ready to photograph - opps, already done that one!!! - and what can you spy here then??? My ickle TH hole maker thingy, AND a blow torch!!!! Yup, I am getting ready to try some copper working and want to alter the colour when it's done... so that might be what I show you next week... and why would I do that?? Because that's what we do, who subscribe to Mistress Julia's wonderful world!!! It's such fun, you should look if you don't already!!!

Well thanks for looking, and for leaving your lovely comments, which always make me SO happy...
Love and light
Frankie
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