Sometimes things stall so close to completion that you wonder later how and why you ran out of steam when so little more effort was needed to get a finish. This pendant is a case in point. When I finished my silversmithing course last year it was at this stage:
All it needed was a piece of drilled sea glass to go in the hole and it was finished. It was at that point that I learned that drilling sea glass is an art and trying to drill a nugget the size of a very scrawny pea is an art currently beyond me. After a morning and several pieces of sea glass wasted, I gave up and decided that a bead would do fine.
But it wasn’t until last week that I actually bothered to go in search of a suitable bead and found some vintage faux pearls which graduate from a shade very close to the colour of the gilding metal to a soft verdigris green.
It took all of 5 minutes to mount the bead on a headpin and then into the pendant. Another 5 minutes to find the hand-dyed ribbon I’d planned to go with it and 15 more to list it here in my Etsy shop.
And the rest of the day wondering why I hadn’t done it months ago!
Under A Topaz Sky 
it is lovely đ Now make more………
The same happens to me all the time! đ
Wonderful work!
Your pendant turned out wonderful!! “)
Oh wow!! Its lovely. Well worth the finish.
It’s a lovely piece. Sometimes the last push is the hardest..
Beautiful! So often the way though, get near the end of the project and the enthusiasm just wanes or the interest is captured by something new. I think it’s quite common! Didn’t realise you had an etsy shop – doh!
Your pendant turned out beautifully! I love the necklace part of it too đ
So lovely. Sometimes we just have to wait until the time is right.
I have several projects at just that stage. I worked on three between visitors at my open studio (insight) at the weekend. All a bit nearer but not quite there yet. Next weekend!!!