Kay's jewelry class #3

[mellicious]

OK, so I took another jewelry class last weekend and here is what I came home with:



I really like it. It was supposed to be a charm bracelet, but I decided to make it into a watch (or watch/charm bracelet, I suppose). It was supposed to have one or more large(ish) focal beads, and so I figured, fine, one of them can just be a watch face! The teacher totally approved, but then she is very into the "do it however you want" philosophy of jewelry-making so I pretty much assumed as soon as I got the idea that she would. This is also, being a charm bracelet, supposed to have many, many more charms - this is just as far as I got in the allotted time.

As usual, though, I'm thinking about totally reworking it. Right now, assuming the watch-face is on the top of my wrist in more or less the normal place, the clasp falls on one side, which is fine, and the big flower bead (which is some sort of greenish stone) falls sort of awkwardly on the other side of the wrist, and a lot of dangles are on the bottom. I started out thinking I was just going to move the dangles and now I'm thinking about taking a good bit of it apart. The big flower bead looks really cute but what I'm thinking I might do is take it off and make it the basis of a completely different (but generally similar) bracelet. And I'm thinking about just taking all the dangles off the watch and making it more unadorned, because I really like the curvy bits (which are 16-gauge copper wire, if anybody cares) and that way they would show up more. Then I can put all the dangly bits on the second bracelet and make it into the real charm bracelet. (This picture has some of the assorted dangly things I was playing with - as well as some assorted other stuff I threw into the picture!.)

Suggestions are encouraged.

Comments

[needlewomyn.livejournal.com]

My first reaction was to see it as a watch-pendant rather than a watch-charm-bracelet. But then again, I nearly always wear a necklace and favor fun and interesting pendants and cannot stand wearing a bracelet!

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

I like bracelets - and necklaces too - but I usually don't like either one of them to be too fussy. I figure I will wear the watch more without a lot of dangly stuff. (And I have not had a lot of success with wearing watches as pendants. It bugs me, for some reason.)

(I redid the watch earlier. There will be pictures sometime tonight, hopefully.)