The Big Reveal!!

O.K, I talked about it enough, now let me show you what I made...

I am of course referring to my soldering class with the famous Sally Jean Alexander (who is absolutely adorable and sweet as pie, by the way)

The class was a Christmas House Necklace class. We made 6 pieces, 4 of them were 2 sided.

Sally gave us about 40 minutes to do our artwork. Ugh!! I don't usually work that fast. It turned out to be a good thing though. I found out I work, maybe, better under pressure.

Some of the ladies that came were super organized and ready to go, I only brought 2 old magazines and a couple of sheets of images.

So, these were my first two charms, I used vintage rhinestone chain and velvet ribbon for the larger one, and a vintage pale pink sequin on ancient text for the second one.

My soldering was, well... lets just say ugh!!

These are the next two I worked on. They are super cute little glass bubbles with Holiday words I cut from magazines, the backs are dimes. Yes, 10 c pieces, dimes!!

These were really NOT easy to solder.

Here are my last two pieces, I love the decorative edge Sally showed us how to do on the smaller one. I used vintage sheet music and just cut the title off and then put it on top of seam binding ribbon and accented it with a Dresden star. My soldering is finally starting to get better.

My house, I am in love with. I am usually my biggest critic but, I love the way this turned out.

Finally, my soldering skills start really kicking in and I'm finished. Ugh. So, I quickly made another charm out of a small dominoes tile just to keep practicing. It turned out even better than the house. Yeah!! I even managed to get the jump rings on. Whew!!

I had such a fantastic time.

I met wonderful ladies who were really funny and talented.

If you ever get a chance to take one of her classes, I highly recommend it.

xoxo

Cari