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by: Dwyn Tomlinson

Playing with these new Zinc beads and findings - this "Exterminate Exterminate" cone is soooo appealing - reminds me of a Dalek! - I came up with this stylized design that evokes both a bouquet of flowers and an Olympic torch.

My plan for mine is to stitch it onto a hat band, so no additional findings are required, but there are other ways to use it.

You could wear it as a pendant - in which case - add a loop of wire to the "bouquet" so that you can hang it from a chain.

Or, you could make it into a brooch. Wire it to a brooch finding before completing the large wrap of wires at the bottom.

With a large wrap of multiple fine wires, they tend not to want to stay in place after. For my purposes, it won't matter - it will be flush against the hat, but for other uses, they ends might snag. You can wrap over the multiwire wrap with another piece of wire to tighten and secure, or put a little dab of glue to keep them in their place.

You will notice from the photos that I used a bead cap - the Celtic Curls - to ensure the spacing of the big flowers stayed even, the smaller flowers are worked in around them. This is much like using a "frog" or "kenzan" in flower arranging. See - you never know what you are going to pick up in one place and use elsewhere!

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		74701016 Artistic Wire - 28ga Round Wire - Silver Plated (Tarnish Resistant) (Spool) (7 pieces about 7 inches long)	Price: $ 10.95 per	In Stock
	Qty: 3	s27172 Cone - Loudspeaker Lily - Antiqued Zinc	Price: $ 0.40 per	Sorry - this item is unavailable.
	Qty: 1	s27175 Cone Exterminate Exterminate - 30mm - Antique Silver	Price: $ 1.40 per	In Stock
	Qty: 4	s27170 Metal Bead Cap - 14 mm Pibbys Cap - Antiqued Zinc (1)	Price: $ 0.30 per	Sorry - this item is unavailable.
	Qty: 5	s27181 Metal Beads - 8.5mm Model T UFO - Antiqued Zinc (4 for flowers, 1 to add height to one of the flowers.)	Price: $ 0.36 per	Sorry - this item is unavailable.
	Qty: 4	277530110sia Swarovski Bead - 10mm Faceted Bicone (5301/5328) - Siam (3 for flowers, 1 for the dangle)	Price: $ 0.99 per	Sorry - this item is unavailable.
	Qty: 7	27753011013208 Swarovski Bead - 3mm Faceted Bicone (5301/5328) - Siam (36)	Price: $ 4.99 per	Sorry - this item is unavailable.