I wasn't sure what to do so I made some beads and they didn't go to well as I was trying to create a leaf as a focal bead but I need a bit more practice I think and it ended up I didn't have any beads finished for her actual day! So lots of apologies were given to her and I promised to make her something very soon.
Oh dear it was difficult to get something sorted so I decided to ask her if she wanted any colours in particular. Ah well 'blues' really she said, as she has a new dress to wear to a wedding she is attending in early June. She sent me pics of the dress and off to the workshop I went.
Edith Blues Set
I was quite pleased with the match. I popped round to see Rosemary yesterday and we did a little match up with the actual dress and the transparent blue (Effetre Lagoona) was a bit dark but the other blue was really spot on, along with the cream too! she liked the beads but they weren't quite right.
Now I have seen the dress up close there was a few other colours in it that seemed interesting so I am going to try and recreate those by doing a little colour mixing to see what I can come up with. I will let you know when I have had a play and see what happens!
The next birthday was my Mum's, her birthday was last weekend she was 78 and I didn't have a clue what to give her. She doesn't really want for much, I often make her something but wanted to do something different this year, so I decided that it would nice to take her up to London and go to the Theatre to see a show. I told her what I was thinking as I wanted to take her to see something she would like to see, so I gave her a little list.
I fancied seeing 'We Will Rock You' and few others but when I told her what one interested me she agreed that she wanted to see it too. If you don't know what that is well its based around Queen songs but the story is set in the future when there are no musical instruments and everything is online including music.
We went up on the train and had a great time, it was really fantastic. It was like going to a concert really the singers were really good. She loved it and so did I.
Yes it really did have a motorbike on stage!
We had a bit of dinner up there too. She was pretty worn out when we finally got back home but she said it was well worth it.
I have been making lots of different headpins again, I love making them so much scope for using them with the glass finials on the end of the wire. I use mostly raw wire like copper, brass, bronze and I will also try some sterling silver too. I won't use plated metal as it will be difficult to clean it as I think the plating metal will probably come off during the cleaning process.
Hoping to get some of the headpins listed very soon in my etsy shop, here is a bit of a preview for you
Marbled Ice Headpins
Multi Leaves and Drops Headpins
(previously seen but now annealed)
Also a nice pair of round beads in the new colour from CIM called Poseidon
Great for a pair of earrings, loving these may need to keep them for myself!! 80))
Till next time
