Cinco de Mayo Necklace
In my last post, I shared my adventure of making a complex polymer cane using fabric as an inspiration and the design in the fabric was inspired from Mexican tile. I decided to make a necklace to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, (May 5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo and use some of the canes as beads. It was fun to give the beads dimension by curing 2 halves, assembling the halves into a whole bead and creating a way to hang them. . Focal Bead Front of Focul Bead The focal bead looks like a pillow with the two convex squares over the four sides of skinny ovals The mobius bead above the focal pillow bead is attached to the necklace with a lobster claw. Each large bead is decorated front and back to give a finished interesting look to the necklace. Polymer beads are lightweight and durable. The back of the beads shown in the first photo above. Margaritas, mariachis, chips and salsa and a colorful one of...