Tribal Silver Beads Necklaces & Boho Scarfs

Tribal Silver Beads Necklaces

Despite how tragically stressful & frustrating a winter I had, I had a strange luck in December and went to my father's house in NJ for Christmas.

 My step mother took my daughter & I out to Joann's and got all kinds of bargains...

I also learned knitting. This was made from Turkish yarn. So my step-mother started this scarf, and I finished it.

Then, I made a 2nd one:



Now, the bulk of what we picked out was beading stuffs... we went to town on beads! It was like a dream come true! Stuff I'd been dreaming of doing for 2 years! And, I got EVERYTHING!

TRIBAL SILVER NECKLACE 

The very first necklace I made, I've actually made, and remade, and restrung several times. I'm finally satisfied with it now. I also couldn't wear them in  the winter because the sub freezing temperatures could cause them to break, and loose all the beads, because I strung them on wire... and I have already learned that lesson the hard way.

 

  

Glass Beads, Tribal Silver beads, and Agate Stone 

This one too forever for me to work out, and I kept postponing finishing it. Finally when I finished it, it fell apart while prepping it for photography, so I had to start ALL OVER AGAIN!

It's made from mostly silver beeds, and tribal Silver beads, as well as LARGE glass beads & watermelon beads 2-Hued Green/Magenta glass beads both from the Czech Republic.
The silver beads are from everywhere: Mexico, PR China, Turkey, India.

Triple Agate Stones & Tribal Silver Beads
with some black pearls & watermelon glass beads from the Czech Republic

Finishing Up My Little Pony Decorate Your Own Blank Pony

I first started this earlier this year, then the sudden summer heat happened, Mercury Retrograde, and then job issues. New job, and a string of fortunately inconvenient out of control, needlessly unnecessary obstacles constantly popping up 1 after another. Never ending!

I also have some dings, and imperfections because of the insensitivity of my spouse.


SO, once I found a paint in a color I liked as the base coat, I had to paint several coats. My first try went badly, so I started over here. You can see the disaster in my previous blog entry about this process.

I had to be incredibly patient, because of the summer New England humidity, which made the process longer than usual.



As you can tell the head was also removed, and the hair was wrapped up.

Here's her head after several coats of paint, and masking fluid on the eyes.



Once that was totally set, I could move onto adding the metallic paint coats.

Here's just the first or second coat.



After starting to paint metallic coats on the body:

Once the body was fully painted with metallic, and the paint was set, I painted my "Black UniGryphon" logo on it. I also used markers. And glitter paints as well.

Under the logo, you can see that I painted a more reddish purple gradient to make the logo stand out more.

Doing some accents on the feet. I saw a few different pony painters do different things. So, I thought I'd try my own.

Here's the feet:

After several base coats of mat yellow, I can paint it over in metallic gold paint coats.







The head after more metallic paint coats:



Adding metallic gold accents to the head, and adding a bindi. The bindi was a vintage piece of jewelry from the 1980s made with 1/2 of a black pearl, and silver. I do not understand how it broke, but I did wear it every day. It was a necklace pendant.

As for the eyelids, I was trying to experiment with purples, but you couldn't tell, so I went with a turquoise with a hint of green in it.



After I took off the masking fluid from the eyes, I painted in the eyes with mat black paint in several coats, and I also used 3 different black markers.

After all kinds of mixed media, like markers, paints, glitter paints, and mother of pearl, and also glaze, and many other accents, etc. It's time to put her head on... of course, after waiting a loooooooong, time for the layers of paints, inks, and glaze dries.

I based the eye designs on some ponies from the 2000s, which would have stars or hearts on the eyes. So, on a whim, I went with hearts. 

Glazed the body in several layers also, added the heart to one of the forelegs.

I used a vintage professional graphic art marker to do the heart by TRI pantone.

I added some rhinestones to the accents on her breast. That was so much friggin' trouble to do! And, glazing over it took forever to dry!



Stay tuned for the final results.

I will be adding the final photos and final results here on this blog, and also on my DeviantART Gallery.

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