Hello everyone! I want to thank Sally Russick (of Wireworked fame) for hosting this awesome exchange and blog hop in the spirit of the season! I'm so excited to be a part of it :) My partner was the wonderful Sandi Volpe, I encourage you to check out her webpage (beyond her blog post) she is an incredibly talented artist :)
I, being the scatterbrained mother of three that I am, forgot to take pictures of my ornament before I sent it off *hangs head in chagrin*. So Sandi was kind enough to take a picture of it for me :)
I wanted to create something... beautiful, but unusual. Any of you who know me very well know I have a complete obsession with Fallen Angel Brass Co. brass... and I'm a total addict for their wire :). So I decided I wanted to create a little snow whirlwind for Sandi. I filled a longish piece of wire with frosted glass seed beads and twisted them round into a spiral, then added a gorgeous blue boro bead from Iris Art Glass. Beneath the boro I've twisted and hung sparkling swarovski crystals. Simple but I think it hangs well and I hope the boro will shimmer and the swarovskis sparkle on her tree :)
Here is the absolutely BEAUTIFUL piece, Sandi made me :)
Isn't it lovely??? You can learn more about it on her blog post :) Here are the links for the rest of the wonderful ladies in the hop! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season :)