Let me present to you today the bezel from hell.
First I melted the collar right off its base.
(See yesterdays post)
Second, after I’d lovingly and painstakingly made Tiffany a new home her corner broke off and so, even though perhaps this was a tad childish, I stomped out of the studio and left her on the floor overnight in disgust.
At this point, let me tell you, I almost broke off our relationship.
Third, after all I’d done for her. After making up and nursing her back to health, what happened? She wouldn’t lay flat in the bezel but showed off and rocked backward and forward like she was on a seesaw.
Not just a little, a lot.
And lastly, never one to walk away from a fight, I finally set her stone-like self, rather well I thought considering I had to grind flat the inside of the bezel forever, and would you believe it, the bottom jump ring fell off, even though I’d checked and double checked that it was secure before I put the stone it.
I almost threw the thing in the bin at this point.
But.
The glutton for punishment I am, I took that darn stone out of the bezel and re soldered the jump ring onto it
again,
then set the stone
again.
Mwahahaha. Take that Tiffany baby.
I forgot to take a photo of the back because I hate it, but felt that as this was the reason I didn’t just start over in the first place that you should get a dark, shadowy, depths of hell, glimpse of it.
I believe that this was all Jane’s fault.
;)
Here’s another one which I ended up fiddling with more than needed.
It just wasn’t doing it for me so I took the stone out (I’m getting quite good at that now) and tried to give it a little more substance.
Still not completely convinced about the back though.
It’s Friday people!
A good weekend to you all.
:)
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November 14th, 2014 at 10:08 am
ha ha ha funny its my fault it must be cause i had trouble with the big one i made so you had to show me how,thank you :) and it looks really good and the back of both of yours ,jane.
November 14th, 2014 at 10:09 am
;)
November 14th, 2014 at 10:31 am
Love seeing what you have done next! Jan P
November 14th, 2014 at 10:34 am
:) It’s all excitment in my house :)
November 14th, 2014 at 11:58 am
The painful, but humorous, saga of Tiffany made my morning. Thanks. You certainly deserve a great weekend!
November 14th, 2014 at 11:59 am
You too Lynda ;)
November 14th, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Both stones are so beautiful that they deserve all the fiddling you had to do with them, but don’t read this out loud in their presence lol. The difference in the ocean jasper pendant 1 & 2 just go to show that sometimes more is better. The 2nd attempt at it is absolutely stunning.
November 15th, 2014 at 9:31 am
Thank you Rita. I think that the tiger eye just wasn’t working and that it all just looked ‘thin’.