{"id":149,"date":"2009-10-07T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/10\/07\/technique-tuesday-making-balled-wire-headpins\/"},"modified":"2009-10-07T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:37:55","slug":"technique-tuesday-making-balled-wire-headpins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/2009\/10\/07\/technique-tuesday-making-balled-wire-headpins\/","title":{"rendered":"Technique Tuesday: Making Balled Wire Headpins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/Ssw2-Kc7DBI\/AAAAAAAACUg\/BxwL6ev3WB8\/s1600-h\/afv--31600--29286_product_336367448_thumb_large.jpg\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 320px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8c6ab_afv--31600--29286_product_336367448_thumb_large.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span><\/p>\n<h1><span><span><i><span><span>So many Jewelry making elements start with that tiny wire with something at the end that keeps things from falling off &#8211; the headpin<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span><span><i><span><span>I personally feel there is nothing richer looking than a charm style bracelet chock full of gems on fat balled up headpins. Or those &#8220;orbit&#8221; style earrings with a focal and lots of tiny gem rondelles on juicy metal balled headpins.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span><span><i><span><span>Like these sweet little gemstone and pearl earrings by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfire.com\/modules.php?name=Shop&amp;op=listing&amp;product_id=458737\"><span>AEBDesign<\/span><\/a><span> in her Artfire shop. <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span><span><i><span><span>There are lots of online tutorials for this technique but my personal favorite is from Christine Geier over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-to-make-jewelry.com\">How-To-Make-Jewelry<\/a>.  If you aren&#8217;t familiar with her site Christine also send out a newsletter called &#8220;I&#8217;m Making Jewelry In My Jammies&#8221;. Her tutorials are always thorough and well illustrated.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div><span><span><b><span><span><i><span><\/p>\n<h1>Balled Wire Headpins<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Use a Torch to Make Your Own Headpins<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3ecc_balled-wire-headpins.jpg\" target=\"_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3ecc_balled-wire-headpins.jpg\" alt=\"balled wire headpins\" width=\"500\" height=\"172\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h1><span><span><\/p>\n<p>Making ball head pins is sooo easy, and kinda fun!  Don&#8217;t freak out about a little heat.  If you can cook something on the stove, you can do this.  <\/p>\n<p>What is a head pin? A head pin is a little piece of wire with some sort of stopper on the end. The stopper prevents the bead from falling off.<\/p>\n<p>A balled-wire headpin is a headpin that has a little ball of metal on the end of it. It&#8217;s formed by melting the wire with a flame so that it balls up.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>So get out your torch, cut some wire and head on over for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-to-make-jewelry.com\/balled-wire-headpins.html\">the rest of this and all the other tutorials on How-To-Make-Jewelry.<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3ecc_3379247251712500914-8986007913631488863?l=flyviewsandreviews.blogspot.com\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many Jewelry making elements start with that tiny wire with something at the end that keeps things from falling off &#8211; the headpin I personally feel there is nothing richer looking than a charm style bracelet chock full of gems on fat balled up headpins. Or those &#8220;orbit&#8221; style earrings with a focal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}