More Clay and Away Today

Before I forget - I have been meaning to put this at the top of my blog for ages and every time I blog I forget.

Jude has some fabulous blog candy on offer - I have had it in my sidebar for some time now but have kept forgetting to mention it on here.  Here is another picture:

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Now, if you can stay on this page rather than rushing off to Jude's I will show you some of the pendants I did yesterday with the Mokume Gane.

Think the purple velvet has changed the colour of these in the photograph.  Most are going to be pendants but there are a couple of pairs of ear-rings in there.  The ones in the last vertical row did not have a layer of Mokume Gane put over them but were left in the raw state.  The backs of all the pendants are similar to this last row.

Didn't realise the hole for my jump ring looks skewiff, won't show when it is put in and added to a chain or whatever it ends up on.  Can you see how the translucent has gone milky in parts and clear in others?

A couple of other shapes

Now I have to sand them to give them a shine but this is going to be a problem as I have been diagnosed with COPD and most of you will realise that this is a breathing problem.  Not sure what I am going to do as yet as I obviously do not want the dust, especially from gold leaf, to go on my chest.  I might have to get Chas to give them a light sanding (ooer, can I trust him?) and then use a glaze over the top.    Anyway, I know I showed you yesterday but here are some views of the unbaked clay which I used to cover these.

Interesting?

Hopefully will blog tomorrow and might even have some pictures from Harrogate to show you.