Ta da!
What is it, you ask? Well - it makes these:
It is a flower press. A Carlo Dona flower press. Like all Carlo Dona tools, it is ridiculously well made, and ridiculously expensive. Expensive enough to make you feel like you really have to justify it. It's rather like buying a sports car. You have to come up with the damnedest reasons to justify it.
It is something of a one-trick pony - it makes flowers on the end of wire. That's it. A flower on a wire. At least until I think of some other creative way to use it. But it does it so well. Who would belittle a pony for having only one trick? It's like the story of the talking dog - "He ain't so special, he never did any of those things ... ."
In a nutshell, you get a blob of glass on the end of stainless steel wire (I've been using 18 gauge stainless steel wire made by Artistic Wire)
If that description doesn't help - try checking out Loribeads video on youtube. I find I have better luck keeping the flower from being lop-sided by hanging the drop down, raising the whole thing up, and peering up to check that it is centred.
This is the largest size I could find - the 6 petal press. You know me - go big or go home!
Anyhoo - spring flowers! Woohoo!
Because I know you will ask - I got it here:
BeadPress.com - Easy to order, easy to pay, shipping was fast and it came extremely well packaged. No fuss, no muss. Very satisfied.
You are completely right - you can only do bellflowers with the tool - BUT - endless possibilities to use the bells in jewellery :-) And I sell them also unfinished; for all the people who don't want to buy a 150Dollar-tool - and mine are already payed :-) Maybe also a kind of justifying the purchase *lol*
ReplyDeleteHave fun, Angela