Today I have been busy making clay beads for a swap I am doing next week so I have not been doing anything else as they have taken me simply ages. They are only simple beads (all 62 of them) but are more of a "focal" bead than anything and I am sorely tempted to make some more and use them with some smaller bicones (using my bead roller) to make into a necklace. In fact I think they might be something I will teach at my next clay workshop.
In the meantime I thought I would upload my box I made a short while ago which initially was a box containing miniature perfumes.
It has two glass slides, the left one showing my mum (the youngest one on the right) with her older sister Caroline, the centre one is a studio photograph she must have once had taken and the round watch case contains a photograph of her when she was at her sister, Ruth's, wedding. Love the hat!
I used some flower heads I had and a piece of wire with gemstones attached to create some interest and then cut the letters out to spell "mum" with a Spellbinders' die.
Hope you like it - why not do something similar with an old box you have?
Thinking about it, I have a lovely photograph of 'fil' sitting on his mother's knee - I love that photograph as I think she is such a beautiful woman. I have used it on a canvas but I am sure I could do something else with it - hmm ... now what can I use it on next?
(Please note all photographs are copies, not the actual ones)
