Just a quick one to say that it is Luna's birthday today and i was up late last night making this 1/4 size sacred cubit tensor ring pendant for her. It is special because it is my first welded Seed of Life and also it because it features a piece of quartz from our 'family geode' which has been attached for good measure.
In Oct last year i made this 1/2 size sacred cubit tensor ring Seed of Life pendant but i didn't know how to weld at that point so everything was held together with little pieces of copper wire and i didn't really consider it finished.
For a copper product to last a lifetime welding is essential so i put on my goggles and jumped to it.
All the rings were individually welded together first after which i had to work out the best way to stack the circles for welding purposes. Couldn't find any tutorials online and it was hard to hold the rings together exactly as i wanted them without the right clamps so i broke it down into sections and created two vesica picis first which sit either side of the three central circles.
My main idea with the welding was to keep it in the centre as much as possible.
But it ended up looking quite messy as you can see and i understand now why the people selling these on Etsy use an 8th circle around the outside, to which each smaller circle is welded.
Never to let a problem bother me i moved forward with further ideas to distract from the discolouration and after a fair bit of messing around i came up with this.
Felt good imagining it hanging on Luna's wall and in this way i knew it was finished.
So i packaged it up and went to bed.
In the morning both Esteban & Luna were excited to get out of bed early.
She has 14 presents in total, with just 5 of them as the 'before breakfast' ones.
She seemed happy with my gift but imagined it to be jewellery of some kind, in line with the other presents of the morning.
The loop isn't big enough to get her head through but she tried anyway!
My personal feeling is that it is a bit big for a necklace, but if she persists with this idea, why not?
She would not be the first person to push the boundaries of how big neckalaces should be.
The main present of the morning was inside a HUGE box!
Oh dear. Another Barbie! From her French grandfather.
Don't think i will be making any Barbie houses for this one.
Esteban was much more interested in the endless possibilities a new empty box brings with it.
A few quick snaps before school time.
And that's it.
Luna is seven years old now :)
Love & Light everyone π±