Wire Sculpted Copper and Shell Button Cameo

I did this one several years ago, I mounted a small resin fashion cameo on an old antique shell button and then worked a copper 20 ga wire sculpted setting for it. She has been sitting in a drawer for a very long time... but I just recently oxidized the wire, I like the way it came out, softly polishing the wire took off some of the darker color and gave this pendant a nice antique feel to it.

Button in Brass

This is an interesting pendant I made last summer after I was scrounging around in a stash of buttons. It is plastic and probably made in the 1950s it is light pink and has sparkly strands of what looks similar to "Easter grass" embedded within it. I used jewelry grade brass wire and made a Preston Ruethor style pendant setting for it.. what has been strange is the brass has not seemed to tarnish at all... this type of setting is hard to really see in a picture as it is very three dimensional and a flat picture can't convey the depth and structural quality of the piece.
I wrapped another button that turned out so strange if viewed I swear would scare the bloomers off yer Granny!