Lunar Love

I love the moon! Even more than the sun. I guess somehow this last full-moon inspired me to create these circles...

Which planet had the three moons? Jupiter, I think! And Saturn. Pluto may also have three! How lovely would it be to look up into our skies and see three gorgeous moons?! Now that would be an inspiring sight indeed!

I created the three circles from different gauges of fine silver wire and fusing them together with a torch. Hammered them flat and dappled them to finish. I added a rutilated quartz briolette to the largest ring. I wire wrapped the three pieces together and slipped a sterling silver chain through the loops.

It's a large piece. The largest ring is about 3" across. I'm slowly collecting new tools and would have preferred using a two-hole punch to create holes at the top of each ring and hung them that way.

But this design is a work in progress. And I have many changes I'd like to do before I decide to list this one in my shop.

Tomorrow...

I will be here learning to fuse fine silver. I'm excited as I've been itching to learn this technique for over a year! I will be using a butane torch to fuse fine silver wire into links for a bracelet. Yay!

I'd also like to learn to solder. Space and equipment costs have kept that at bay for now. I have been reading up on the pro's and con's of fusing vs. soldering. Since I haven't done either, I can't say whether one method is better. The fusing method is highly touted here for those not wanting to bother with soldering. But I can see already that I will need to learn to solder eventually.

I just want to learn it all!