The face focal on this necklace is handcast using the sand casting method, a metal focal to push into the sand and non-leaded solder.  Made it at a class and fell in love with how easy it is to do.  I made this necklace for today’s offering for Art Every Day Month.

Made a few more then did this freehand style using a symbol I created in a class with Mary Anne Radmacher in the 2014 Life is a Verb Camp.

It’s backward since I always forget when stamping or casting that you have to do a mirror image.

That’s a finishing cabochon of turquoise – lucky I found one to fit.

Were I to do this again, I would cast by drawing around a stone I had already chosen so it would fit perfectly.  But these were from a class and it was a learning experience and now I know better!