Glass headpins
I had made glass headpins wayyyy back, and will anyone believe if I say I dint know that it could be used as headpins? Yeah, I used to enjoy melting glass under a flame(it used to take way too long for the glass to get soft!), then I used to bend it into petal shaped loops, connect loops together and make a necklace. No metal, no clasp, no nothing! BUT it was soooo fun and of course beautiful! It was always used to adorn portraits of Gods/Goddesses in the house. I don't know how many of you have tried this. Then one day I managed to melt glass into a blob, and put it onto the end of a straight wire. Not to mention I ended up having blisters in my hands. Oh my! What a brat I was! Must have been around 11 or 12 years old then!
Okay, so now after so many years, I thought let me try again making headpins out of glass - to use in jewelry! I tried. I succeeded. I used it in a design of mine. I am planning to sell it on Etsy. Or make more just for me! PS: Does that qualify me for the term 'self-taught'?
So that gives me a pair of earrings to present for the AJE Challenge this week!
And I am way too happy to have gotten featured in the last module of AJE Challenge! See it HERE!
So here it is,
I had made glass headpins wayyyy back, and will anyone believe if I say I dint know that it could be used as headpins? Yeah, I used to enjoy melting glass under a flame(it used to take way too long for the glass to get soft!), then I used to bend it into petal shaped loops, connect loops together and make a necklace. No metal, no clasp, no nothing! BUT it was soooo fun and of course beautiful! It was always used to adorn portraits of Gods/Goddesses in the house. I don't know how many of you have tried this. Then one day I managed to melt glass into a blob, and put it onto the end of a straight wire. Not to mention I ended up having blisters in my hands. Oh my! What a brat I was! Must have been around 11 or 12 years old then!
Okay, so now after so many years, I thought let me try again making headpins out of glass - to use in jewelry! I tried. I succeeded. I used it in a design of mine. I am planning to sell it on Etsy. Or make more just for me! PS: Does that qualify me for the term 'self-taught'?
So that gives me a pair of earrings to present for the AJE Challenge this week!
And I am way too happy to have gotten featured in the last module of AJE Challenge! See it HERE!
So here it is,
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| Glass headpins handmade by me |
It was such a pleasure to hear from many of you after a long time. Thankyou for stopping by, and leaving comments. It means a lot to me!
Have a great week you all!
PS: What I did in childhood was due to blissfull ignorance of the age; never do lampworking or use a torch without proper precautionary aids and ventillation as heated metal, gas and even the torch can give off toxic by-products.
