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Took the latest copper bracelet to Bead + Fiber yesterday. ( Images under the cut. )

The woman who owns the store inquired as to how long it took me to make and how much I'd charge for it; the price I gave was, in her opinion, too low. Which, not a surprise, seeing as the only price idea I had for anything like it was for something similar made entirely of sterling silver. After we discussed the bracelet and a few other pieces I'd made she asked if I would be interested in being one of five or six local jewelry makers in a trunk show she was planning this November- basically, show up at the store with thirty or so pieces to sell and split the take with the store according to a pre-agreed-upon percentage.

There is going to be a lot of evening craft work at my apartment for a while, I think.

(Having said that, my Smugmug gallery has been updated with a bunch of other pieces. I haven't given them alt text or descriptive text but they're at https://camwyn.smugmug.com/Jewelry/ if you're interested anyway. And a bunch of them are listed at my online store but it should be noted that I can do a certain degree of custom work, too.)

Another piece.

I had instructions for a very simple and classy-looking wire bracelet that was supposed to involve two segments interlocked with each other in something vaguely resembling a Celtic knot. I am not sure what wrist was involved in testing the original, but if you take two five-inch pieces of wire and bend them so that there is a teardrop-shaped section in the middle of each one and two close-to-touching parallel wires leading away, then interlock the teardrop sections, you wind up with something really really small. As in, if I had carried through with the directions, this bracelet would have been at least half jump rings and clasp rather than actual bracelet band.

So I said you know what, screw it, I'm going to bend this SOB and see if I can attach shiny bits to it.
( It's a pendant now. )

I may eventually try to do the bracelet again but ignore more or less everything about the measurements in the instructions and just follow the techniques.