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Friday, August 27, 2010

What to do with donuts?


I cant stop buying donuts!

No! not the sugary, jammy kind but donuts for jewellery.

But then I never know how to string them!
You could just loop a strand of leather through it and make a simple necklace.

Or you could purchase a special donut bail, like these from abeadstore.com


They are simple to use and look quite pretty.

But I am never prepared enough to have special bails like that.

So here is what I have done -

A simple wire wrap.
I didnt want to hide the lovely design on this ceramic pendant, and the gunmetal wire kind of blends in with the design.


A simple wire wrap plus dangle.
This is a gorgeous ceramic donut, but it looks like stone doesnt it?
I wanted to make it a bit more fanct but not overwhelming, so I strung a brass spiral charm after I did the wire wrap, and it covers the wire up too.


Another wire wrap plus dangles.
I wanted to incorporate several flower charms on this very large peace stone donut, but nothing worked.
The flowers have double holes on the back, like a button shank and so wouldn't sit flat.
So I made separate loops on them and strung them as I made the wrapped loop for the bail.



Beaded loop.
I made two seed bead loops for this large lime jade donut.
I like the way it hangs from two suspension points.



Several beaded loops.
The loops on this jade donut form part of the freeform peyote design.


I have also seen very elaborate beaded bails in beading magazines.
And I'm keen to do some more freeform wiring to hang donuts.

Now I feel inspired to make some more!

How do you deal with donuts?
"munch munch"

3 comments:

  1. fantastic, thats given me lots of ideas now. I went to a bead fair at the beginning of the month and bought a string of ceramic donuts in all sorts of colours, and they've kind of sat in the drawer not being used, so thankyou for the inspiration

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  2. YAY! I haven't known how to hang two large 'donuts' (never even knew that's what they were called...Thank you!) that I've had just banging around in my box. Now I do!!! I'm going to string some seed beads and make a loop for them to be hung from!!!! You have such a creative mind! :-))

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