Cart Before The Horse. The Steampunk Home. Beading Daily. How to Fry Marbles and Make Crackle Bead Jewelry. FireNFusion is a Wisconsin based glass artisan who has both an Etsy store and her own website, Dichroic Jewelry and More. She posted a really cool tutorial on her blog how to make a fried marble pendant necklace. Thanks Nikki for updating this link! The marbles aren't actually fried in oil but baked in a really hot oven and then rapidly cooled in iced water. Some marbles will break apart but you can glue bead caps with wire loops on the survivors to make pendants. This is probably how crackle beads are made. Now marbles have no holes so here are other ways to incorporate them into jewelry : 1. 2. Plaidbunny over at the Sweater Surgery blog also demonstrates a lightly wire netted technique she tried from a book. 3. The Crafts Channel on Youtube also has a wire cage video tutorial which shows the main steps to make this type of cage.
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[caption id="attachment_1750" align="aligncenter" width="594"] Me with Tor, soon after we found him, February 2012, Tucson, Arizona. [/caption] Almost exactly one year ago, I went with Abdul to Tucson for the Gem and Mineral Show. He drove a big ...