Wire Wrapped Pendants! Petrified Wood!

Wire Wrapped Pendants!

To brand these awesome pendants you lot volition take away some earthy treasures.

I went to Arizona to catch my sister...who past times chance, lives inwards the same latitude equally Petrified Forest...but non unopen to it.  I guess the stars align in addition to in that location are the perfect elements to brand the trees plough to stone, because quite past times conduct chances nosotros establish some spell hiking (not inwards the National Park).  

We hiked an opened upward trail correct off a dirt road, correct off the hiway in addition to stumbled upon millions of pieces of petrified wood!  Again, nosotros were non inwards reserved land...so I took some.  So sue me. :)  Don't nation me you've never loaded pockets alongside rocks before.  Okay, I loaded my handbag alongside pieces...about twenty pounds worth!  Alright, it was non fifty-fifty twenty pounds, but everything feels heavier on a hike.

 (am I the only 1 loading upward on rocks during a hike?)

I got some big chunks, but I wanted some crystal shards to brand into necklaces!  It's gorgeous in addition to sparkles inwards the correct light.  Please don't conduct hold rocks from protected lands, they are in that location for all the visitors to enjoy.
(You'd beloved my trove of loathe shipping service for this post alone...why is it that people conduct hold no employment commenting hateful things, but non overnice things?...oh well, let's brand this necklace!)

So, allow your children pick upward rocks, shells, driftwood, etc. from your summertime opor-garai (unless you lot are on protected land) in addition to arrive into a necklace they tin treasure!

 You volition need:

Rocks, crystals, shells, driftwood, etc.

twenty estimate gilded wire

jewelry in addition to needle olfactory organ pliers

charms or beads (optional)

Leather cord for necklace

I used close 8-10 inches of wire for each pendant,

depending on the amount of decor wire I wanted to play with.

Start past times making a loop inwards the centre of the wire.

Twist the loop twice.

Place across the seat off of the rock, score alongside a pencil where the edges of the stone are.

Bend the wires alongside the pliers to lucifer around the seat off of the stone (at your pencil marks)

Hold the wires on the side of the rock.

Bend the wires at a 90* angle...one going 1 direction, the other the opposite.

Wrap the wires around the stone in addition to twist them through the wire on the other side.

I pulled the stone out momentarily to interlock the wires.

Then slid the stone dorsum in.

Now line the wire inwards the reverse direction.  It makes a tight line hither in addition to keeps the stone inwards place.

The remaining wires tin last wrapped around for extra back upward or swirled for decoration.

And, trust me, you'll desire to brand a bunch!

Which 1 is your favorite? 

I hooked a piddling primal charm on 1 of them...but it's non necessary.

I beloved this one.  I telephone phone it the Utah stone because of that notch inwards the top!

Just curvature the wire to follow the  sort of the rock!

I finished it off alongside close 30" of leather cord to consummate the look.

I beloved the earthy in addition to gilded combo.

Works for chokers or total length,
boys or girls, kids or adults.  All people beloved these.

 Keep this unproblematic technique inwards hear when you lot are pulling rocks or trinkets out
of kids pockets earlier doing laundry...

Or is it only my kids that hoard rocks?

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