Glow in the Dark Wire Pendant

While scrolling through Instructables and the Make it Glow Contest page, I remembered that I actually had something glowing an ominous green color from my box of jewelry supplies. Not long ago, I decided to finally find out what it was, and realized that the mysterious glow-in-the-dark object in my box of stuff was actually a small, pendant-worthy stone.

So, why not turn it into a pendant?

You'll need:

• 0.8mm wide silver wire
• 0.3mm wide silver wire
• Round nose jewelry pliers
• Flat nose jewelry pliers
• Wirecutter
• Glow in the dark stone
• Masking tape
• Pencil and ruler for marking and measuring

Take about an A4 sheet of paper's length of the thicker wire and bend a loop at the midway point. Use the flat nose pliers to make the slightly oval and angular shape of a lotus petal.

Then make a smaller loop on each side of the first petal and use the pliers to adjust their shapes too.

Once that's done, wrap the wire around the stone to give the wire its shape.

Take two more 0.8mm wide wires of the same length and wrap them around the stone to match its shape. Then use the thinner wire to wrap the three layers together (with the lotus layer on top). I used about 8 wraps for each link, and masking tape really helped in keeping everything in place while wrapping!

Take the two ends of the lotus layer and make a few swirled shapes with the rounded pliers. You can make them look like mine, or you can do whatever else you'd like.

Then, try fitting the newly created wire cage onto the stone to make the swirls match the pendant's rounded shape, and wrap the swirls and edges of the cage together for reinforcement.

Grab the top wire on the right and left side of the pendant and use a rounded object (like a paintbrush, pencil, etc) to create the loop shape. Let the excess go down the back of the pendant.

Then, use some thin wire to wrap up the pendant loop.

Yes! Almost done.

To completely cage up this pendant, use the two excess wires from before to make a couple more swirls along the pendant's back. I used a third wire too, leaving the fourth one for some decoration on the pendant's front.

After using some thin wire to reinforce the swirls to the cage edges and the other swirls, use the fourth one for decoration. I thread a pearl in the fourth wire, wrapped the wire around the pearl, and ended it in another swirl, though you could try all sorts of other things too, like adding multiple smaller beads, or making more swirled shapes, and so on.

We're done! Photo time!

It was a bit hard to take pictures of something in the dark, despite it glowing, but I finally got it!

What's especially nice about this is that you can see the beautiful swirls you've made even in the dark.

Happy making!