A closer look

Copper wire darkened with liver of sulfur	Heat coloured copper, brass earwires	Copper wire, slightly tarnished

My butterfly collection

Two butterflies have flown to a customer, four are still without earwires. Can't choose what would match heat coloured copper better...

What are you cooking today? I'm frying butterflies. Or baking?.. :)
Here they are, right from the oven. And a pair of copper earrings without any colour changing effects - for comparison.

I created this blog about a year ago but then I was going but couldn't actually start posting something here. I hoped to write down thoroughly about all the things I had made since I discovered wirework for myself. But I seldom had time at least for making things, let alone writing about them. So I think, I should just start :)

So, to begin with...

My 1st year of jewelcrafting

My first year of wirework, actually, for I made beaded and tatted jewelry before (I just like the Jewelcrafting profession in the World of Warcraft). But these techniques became too slow for me when my baby son took all my time, so I switched to wire. It was such a relief to be able to start and finish something in an hour or two while he was asleep :) Or at least in two days :)