Things To Do With a Boiled Egg...

I have spent this morning beavering away with fresh supplies of silver, converting some more ideas into reality. Most of the time was spent making chains for the pendants to go on. I thought this would be fairly straightforward, but I'd reckoned without the fiddliness of jump rings - so called I think because they 'jump' out of your fingers and roll away to hide somewhere on the floor. I made a few more pendants, firstly incorporating smoky quartz from a beach-combing stint in Cornwall:

Then one with sea glass from the same beach-combing episode:

I really like this, so made a matching ring to go with it:

Then I decided to make a matching ring to go with the clear sea glass pendant I made at the weekend:

And a couple of plain silver spiral pendants:

Now these beaten ones I am going to try and oxidise. I don't like the idea of toxic chemicals, never mind the expense, but I've heard putting the piece in a container with a freshly boiled egg (peeled & split open) does the same and then I get to make egg mayonnaise afterwards. I'll let you know how it goes.

I was getting tired of the bolt clasps I was using for my necklaces, so had a little play at making my own:

With a little beating and oxidisation, I think they'll be perfect!