This is the third year I have participated in the 100 Day Project. The first year I did collage papers. I used the gel plate to print many of them.
Last year I concentrated on bracelets, beads and buttons. I made gemstone ladder stitch bracelets and sometimes fastened them with polymer clay buttons I made myself.
This year, I have chosen, “fix and finish.”
This is a broken necklace that has been waiting years to be fixed. I’ll be documenting what I fix or finish here moving forward.
We made valentines and valentine jewelry, tonight. We ate chicken noodle soup because Vivi wasn’t feeling well. She persevered to get her valentines ready for school tomorrow. No store-bought cards allowed.
I was asked to cover a box for the neighborhood food drive here in Charlotte. I finished and delivered it today.
I replaced a clasp on Adrianne’s necklace.
I treated myself to a trip to Michael’s.
The sales and coupons and clearance were great! They had molds ($1) and stencils and stamps, oh my! I used my coupon on that UV lamp!
I rubbed my new color-change mica on embossed card stock. ‘Slightly disappointed in this one.
In all, a good day, just the same!
I think I’ve found my “thing” I like to do in polymer clay, at
least for now.
I love making and embossing these hearts!
I’ve made one into a necklace:
Finished in gold plate:
It’s for sale in my shop!
Tonight’s experiment!
Alicia and Katy shared my necklace on jtv.com/extra on Wednseday! The hashtag was heavymetal.
It’s at 1:07, approximately, into the show. Katy commented on my signature. The flowers were inspired by Susan Thomas of JTV.
On a recent visit to see my grandchildren, I took along some wire, cutters and pliers. Peter James, age nearly nine, made me this “fringe” necklace.
I explained the basic technique, and away he went!
He engineered the closure, too.
The fringe sort of forms a heart!
(The sticker is a reward from my granddaughter for completing a fairy puzzle while she was teaching. I was Pre-K Karla!!)
I changed the middle tassel on my gold pendant from mismatched chain to antique gold silk. I think I like it better.
I swapped the bead above the center tassel, too.
Before:
I also hung it from a gold-plated lantern chain.
I might swap the chain for a heavier one, too. Then I’ll price it and list it in my shop.
I think I’m on to something adding tassels to my Asian inspired necklaces!
I found little brass blanks I can use to add a pendant loop to the back of my bamboo edged pendant frames:
A little E6000 and a little dry time:
A tassel and a jump ring and I’m in business!
The black tassel is by Bead Landing via Michael’s. The gold one is from a supplier I found on eBay. I will have to favorite them, because it is beautiful and was nicely packaged.
The black and gold necklace is in my shop. So is the blue, but I’ll need to update it! (Since I just did!)
This is what I did with the charms from Vintaj via Candie Cooper. I worried about how soft the wire is I used to wrap the glass leaves, so I hammered a piece. 
I decided against hammering the 26 gauge copper and finished the necklace with faux leather cord and antique copper findings.
I made earrings, too!
is this design from the Quilt Square Girls in West Jefferson, NC. 
It seems like every time I turn one of their barn quilts into a necklace, that one becomes my favorite!
I don’t know the name of this pattern, but it’s very folksy, and I love it!
I’m also pleased with the tiny antique button clasp I found to finish it.
This style is different than the images under glass that I made originally. These are more of a laminated lucite. They are harder to produce, but they look more like miniature barn quilts to me.