Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Bugs In My Brain
































A wee matching pair of flies - perfect for earrings.

I mean if you like that sort of thing, and I do. Someone who was visiting my studio saw them and asked me, exasperatedly, "why do you have to do that? They're so beautiful and gross at the same time."

Below, a single fly looking for love.

































The bodies are made with a metallic black glass from Cim's called 'Gunmetal' that looks like graphite.
The wings are made with Double Helix 'Aion' a faintly iridescent glass that shimmers like soap bubbles.

All three are available in my Belvedere Etsy shoppe of horrors.

3 comments:

Celeste Kemmerer said...

I haven't used the CIM Gunmetal yet. I read somewhere that it's metallic shine wears of somewhat easily. Has this been your experience?

belvedere beads said...

This is my first time using Gunmetal - but after you posted this I tried polishing off the fly butts. They are unchanged, so far.

Celeste Kemmerer said...

Thanks for the info. I'll order some then. I'm almost out of Effetre metallic black.