Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

My Necklace on the Clavichord Plans This past weekend Peter and I were busily working on our individual projects - I was making my first large hollow bead necklace while he was building a clavichord.  Usually the noise is out in the garage but this weekend he had some delicate drilling to do and needed to be in our Arizona room while I was working in polymer clay. Drilling holes in the soundboard of the clavichord This is the story of the necklace I made and actually it is the second such necklace.  I threw the first one away.  I tell you this just in case you think I never make mistakes! When I opened one of my plastic boxes, I found a layer of clay that had design lines made of various canes.  It dawned on me that it might make great beads.  I recently saw a video by Kathleen Halverson Dustin showing her technique and wanted to try it. sheet of polymer clay canes in design lines The first thing I did was to make scrap clay in the shape of the necklace and cover

 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 a kind necklace should