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I took my pendant along to Hadar’s course (must write a post on that soon..) and got my pendant fired while I was there.  I’m thinking that I didn’t put enough vent holes in it, as part of the side blew out.  :(  Anyway, I patched it here at home (now we are in mid semester break - I have a little bit of time!) and torched fired it.. the patching worked really well, and the piece looked good.  Some aura 22 and LOS, and a few orissa garnets.. and Voila!

After polishing and re-doing the liver of sulphur around 20 times, I’m finally satisfied with the finish I got on my first donut!

This is the first piece I ever made.. I made it in the Metal Clay beginners class I took through Macquarie Community College, run by the marvelous Roz Eberhard-Swan.

Pendant 2

Third times the charm..

Info and photos of this piece under construction are here.

Today, I messed around with Aura 22 and my new blow torch for the first time. My first round was a bit of a disaster.

I torched the ring I’m working on outside, but this meant that I couldn’t get a good look at the color of the piece and I think I over heated it because all of the gold seemed to disappear into the silver! 

Pendant 1

This the second piece I created in the class I took earlier on in the year. I then applied Aura 22 to the boundary of the pendant for the gold. I’ve bought some howlite beads to string this pendant on.. but haven’t had time yet! At least the pendant part is finished. (Unless I decide to enamel the inside of it of course…)