my first sparkler

16 years ago

Hmmm, I think I'm on the right track, but not satisfied yet. This was the last of the wire I had, and actually shorter than I would have liked. This was easy though, as I just stuck the wires into the cork. I want to get some of small glass gems/chips to fill the bottle with.

I had my hubby attach wires to a piece of copper pipe and attach that to the back of a knife, but I dont have those beaded yet.

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sunnyca_gw
16 years ago
Turned out great! The gems in the bottle will be nice finishing touch! Where did you get such large beads? Jan
grandma_cindy
Original Author
16 years ago
The big clear round ones in the front are 18mm clear acrylic beads. Most of the other beads are glass - I only bought the ones on sale at Pat Catans LOL
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chickiebabeblue
16 years ago
These look great. I'm glad you added pics as I thought the acrylic beads wouldn't sparkle enough; but they really do. Very nice.
Jeanne
grandma_cindy
Original Author
16 years ago
the store had these ladybug glass bead packs on sale for 77 cents, so I bought the last 8 LOL All the round red ones came in the packs, and this ladybug you see here in front.

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excessfroufrou
16 years ago
It does look like you are on the right track. Those beads are amazing. Keep us posted on the other one.
Frou
concretenprimroses
16 years ago
Oh! Pretty. I forgot about sparklers and I was just at a bead and gem store that is fairly reasonably priced. I bought a few things to spice up plate flowers and totems only.
Thanks for the reminder about sparklers.
Kathy
pondgal
16 years ago
That looks absolutely great. LOVE the cork idea. Where do yo all get the wire at? What gauge is it? I see a new project in my future. lol Thanks!
Marlene Kindred
16 years ago
I think it turned out really nicely! Love the ladybug beads too! I was going to ask about the gauge size too!
sprout_wi
16 years ago
CUTE!! The ladybug beads and seeing it in the great outdoors, really shows it off well. LOVE it!! Great job.
-Sprout
luna_llena_feliz
16 years ago
Very pretty! I love the ladybug beads. Oriental Trading Co. has some cute beads that are reasonably priced. Below is a link to some honey bee beads that would cost about 33 cents each. Great job on the sparkler!

Here is a link that might be useful: Bumblebee Lamwork Glass Beads
grandma_cindy
Original Author
16 years ago
I bought wire to use on the knives, and knew it wouldnt need to be real long. So I got a small sppol of 18 gauge jewelry wire to start off with. The knives have 8 wires each, and those are twice as long as the bottle wires. I only had enough for 2 knives and the wine bottle.
After a dr appt tomorrow, I can get started on the knives.
Thanks for the compliments!
oldcrafty
16 years ago
Your sparkler looks really good. I like all the different color beads....gives it pizzaz. I have one in the making...seems as if the first one is always more or less a learning adventure!