Better Living With Chemicals---LOS

Remember doing the "egg thing": putting copper wire in a plastic with a hot hard boiled egg and smashing your frustrations away? We were trying to oxidize, or create a lovely brown patina, on copper pieces with the sulfur from an egg's yolk.

For those of you with less violent tendencies there is another alternative, LOS (liver of sulfur). I flunked high school chemistry so I can't tell you much about it but I found this great tutorial by Stacie Florer (sorry, but this tutorial has been removed by the designer). You will see all the good stuff as well as how she creates a beautiful pair of earrings.

One note: this clasp was inspired by Connie Fox's tutorial on wire clasps.

And, of course, notice the spiral design of the kumihimo braid.