Marvelous Monday

This past weekend, I managed to experiment a little more with the electroforming of beads & earrings.  Last week I had sold a pair of earrings before I had a chance to photograph the backs.  I was explaining how I realized you didn't necessarily have to paint the entire back with the conductive paint thereby making it all copper.  You just needed a little something on the back to be sure the copper wouldn't just fall off the front of your piece.   I made another pair so you can see the process. 

And the once you start experimenting with copper, you just have to add some color.  And here's a pair of electroformed copper earring forms.  I just kept heating up the piece, adding patina, heating, adding patina, until I got to this point.  I think there's some brown, red and green.  I haven't polished and this is in a pretty raw state.  But you get the idea . . .

Below is the other bead I did.  I have one last bead (my monster bead) in the bath right now.  It was almost too big for the bath!  There's probably one other thing I want to electroform this week and that's a cabochon.  Wouldn't that be yummy?  Hope you have a marvelous Monday!

Oh - it's getting towards the end of the month and you know what that means.  If you haven't signed up to be put in the drawing for my free bead of the month, head over to the website and sign up.  You could win this month's bead!