Chainmaille Bracelet

So I've acquired a new obsession. Can you guess what?? XD
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Tonight's shenanigans:

16 gauge, 3.75mm and 6mm ID rings.
Excuse the swollen fingers; I spent the better part of the afternoon messing with this bracelet (and a few other random bits and experiments) and I am seriously not used to using 16G wire yet (my usual is 20G and up).
Ouch.


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Preparing Materials

Just some photos of some material preparation.

First photo is of silver plated jump rings I'm preping for earring making purposes, been hand cut rings, some of them had a few bits of overhang that had to be flush-cut... painstaking stuff o_o
Second photo is of some freshly dyed linen thread - though I'm now doing a fair bit of chainmailling and jewellery making, I haven't forgotten about my bookbinding love. <3

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Photographic Woes

I've been making a lot of jewellery lately.
It started as simple earrings but now I'm experimenting with chainmaille and making my own chains and bracelets.
The reason for not having posted photos earlier is that photographing these small items is a pain and a half; my poor dinky camera is... well... too dinky to focus properly on smaller objects and lighting here is a tad crap.
Cases in point:

Background/focus fail

Focal Point Fail

Lighting Fail

Shadow Fail

Prop/Epic Fail

So, i'm in the process of building myself a cheapo photographic light box, heheh.
Progress!

Lightbox a-la-cheap!

Once done, I have many, MANY pieces to photograph...

And this isn't even half my earring stash...

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Still Chugging Away

I've been doing a whole lot of bookbinding for sale lately, though I'm going to refrain from posting each and every one here!
I've also started writing shop specific posts on my Artfire blog, you can find more info here:
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/blog/BumbleVee
Don't worry, I'll still keep updating this blog too.

Drawing has been going fairly slowly, stress kind of kills the drawing creativity, but I have been working on a commission illustration (still at the sketch phase) as well as a content filled book commission which is still in the page design and layout phase.

I've also been trying new ideas for items to sell. Here's a peek at the latest thing I'm fiddling with.

These are going to be turned into stickers!
There's also a few smaller ones with ladybugs on them. I love making stamps! XD
Anyway, thanks for sticking with me in these trying times. :)


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