butterfly flutterby in gray and clutter-bye

I finished a piece I started months ago. I got these stone butterfly wings from a gem source on etsy and held them for a year before attempting to do something with them. I didn't want to set them in a bezel setting and I wanted the butterfly to move. I hadn't tried to make a hinge before but the design is basic and probably thousands of years old. So I drew some pictures and came up with this plan. I started it and hit a few snags on the prongs and let it sit in my studio unfinished. Life moves on so to speak and I eventually picked it back up and "went to town on it" and figured out my snags. The hinge actually works too well so I may need to crimp the hinge to slow it down and keep this guy in flight on a necklace. I won the battle, but prongs still intimidate me sometimes lets just say. May I introduce Butterfly Flutterby in Gray.

We're doing Fall Cleaning at our house and going to have a multi-family yard sale in a couple of weeks. This is just the barn clean-up, more junk to come! Amazing how we accumulate stuff, really do we have time for it all? Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday.