Ooops - Forgot - Love Life

Love the journey that is your life

Yesterday, I put up a picture of a snowflake bowl bezel. I thought I had posted it earlier in the year but realized this morning, I hadn't. I wanted to tell you about this one. First, the back, since you didn't see it yesterday...

The bowl bezel is fabricated from brass, hand hammered into a slight bowl shape and stamped on the back: "Love Life." Sewn into the bezel is a handpainted snowflake glass cabachon. Is there no better color combination than cobalt blue and white? Love the clean, two color palette.



I stamped Love Life on the back to remind me to enjoy this journey and pay attention to it.

Raspberry Bowl Made With Cold Connections

Lately, I'm blogging on combining flamework glass and metal by using cold connections. I'm using copper and brass sheet metal, copper ball headpins I've made at the torch with a patina I learned how to create in Mary Hettmansperger's book, Wrap, Fold, Stitch, & Rivet. The chapter on creating patinas is worth the price of the entire book! Here is a little sample of the lovely colors you can create on copper sheet:



Brass sheet can get a coppery reddish color which I thought looked just perfect with the Italian made Rubino glass I have. I made a bowl bezel and attached the yummy raspberry colored bead to create a pendant which I'm calling Raspberry Bowl.



My style is either overdone or very modern with a single pendant suspended from a chain. I think this one will be modern to feature the handmade texture and lovely color of the pendant.