Copper Bangle with Ceramic Bead (Variation to an Old Design)

A friend of mine recently saw this older design of mine and liked it a lot, but wanted the same thing done as a bangle. So I dived into my stash of beads (do you remember how Scrooge McDuck used to dive in his money in Duck Tales? Yep, that's what it looked like:) and found another of the Ceramic beads that I used a lot with copper.








So with the exact bead (can a human fall in love with a bead? Because that's what the friend of mine said about the bead and I was worried I didn't have any left...) I had no excuse not to try a different twist on the same design:

So I posted the bangle in my Etsy shop and tadaaa - SOLD! (Well to this friend and nobody else, of course!)

I Think You Know...

...what is my favourite technique so far... how many Herringbone project have I finished so far???

But to be fair, as a beginner I cannot ask for a more effective yet very easy technique.

This is a bangle made for my mum - she got a pair of copper earrings and wanted something matching.

Detail of the clasp:

I Just Love Making Copper Bracelets

Ahhaaa!
After making a bunch of seedy-beady bangles there was another thing awaiting - bangles with not-so-seedy beads! I admit - I like a cluster of bangles on a hand all together, maybe that's why I always make a few to compliment each other.
But hey - they're good on their own too! No bangle should be ashamed on its own!

Sorry, I'm in a silly mood today...

Copper Bracelet with Blue Ceramic Bead:

Another simplified version of Copper Bracelet with Blue Ceramic Bead:

Copper Bracelet with Red Glass Beads:

Copper Bracelet with Lampworked Beads:

Columns of Green

I was off-line for a while now, but it doesn't mean I was not creating. I have a few things to show you, hopefully over next few days...
For the starters, here is another try of the wrapped bangle with seedies and bugle beads, this time the bugle beads are much longer - I really wanted to see the outcome and I'm quite happy with that.
Now I only have to buy lots of different colours!

There's No End To Bangles - Evidently...

I really got into the bangle making, as you can see, and everytime I started working on a bangle, I got an idea for another one. This was a design I didn't think I could pull off, I was trying to use the stem seed beads and thought of something else originally - but that didn't work out. It was a moment before I figured out, how to attach the beads to the bangle base (which is two un-attached wire bangles) and then I really liked the way it was going on.
This bangle took me quite a while to finish, but it's just the first in a long line now. And with every new bangle I'm getting better and faster.

For The Love of Coils

This is my first try at coiled coils. I like the look of the coils (handmade, by the way - I yet have to get the coiling gizmo!) and I will definitely try more designs with them.
Here I have combined steel wire, antiqued silver spacers, seed beads and a firepolished bead to add more red to make the seed beads pop.

Detail of closure:

Seed Beed Bangles Got Sisters!

This is how I imagined the set of bangles adorned with seed beads. Yay, I like it!

Bangles, Bang, Bang!!!

I have discovered the pleasures of coiling and because I looove bangles and bracelets, I decided to make a few and think of possible designs.
This was the first one:

It's made of steel wire (the same one that didn't work for me when making the big chandelier earrings - http://designbymisa.blogspot.com/2009/01/wire-earrings-finished.html), antiqued silver spacer beads and some Czech firepolished beads and seed beads.


I can't explain why I still like to work with this wire when I had so much trouble with it, but I guess I just got used to the hardness and learned to work with it. Which is great, as I personally see a development here - a material that didn't seem ideal at first became my friend and I enjoyed working with it the second (and third and fourth...... :-) time around.
I should probably try to make those earrings now again and see the difference!

Here is a set of bangles made of steel wire (THAT one, what else) and seed beads of different colours. I want to make a set of 4 or 5 with different colours of seed beads to stack them together, but they take a while to make (but I'm getting faster with each new one!!!) and I couldn't wait to put them here. So these will get sisters soon.

And this was the last idea with bangles - something little less usual. Square bangles! I want to make more of these as well and stack them together.