This one is all about Halloween and it comes with a quick story. I am nearsighted and don't have contacts. I also, as evidenced by the previously posted-upon Queen Akasha costume, am a bit of a nut for Halloween costuming. The biggest problem with my costumes has always been my eyeglasses. They tend to ruin the effect of any costume, but I can't go without them. This year a little shop opened up in the mall before Halloween, and they had the most beautiful half-masks I've seen, and I was thinking it was too bad I couldn't wear them because of my glasses. Then it finally dawned on me. I had a spare set of glasses, so why couldn't I use my wire-wrapping skills to incorporate these eyeglasses into a mask? Of course there was no reason why I couldn't, so that's exactly what I did. It went over quite well too!
I started by wrapping some wires onto the top and bottom of the eyeglass bridge and bending them into a frame. Then I wove wire into the spaces and accented the edges with beads, and added some bead danglies at the outside of each side, like on the masks in the store. Pics below:
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