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I have found a few amazing tutorials that helped me combine weaves to create a dragon and an owl.  I haven't made too many of them so far, but the ones I have made turned out very cute.

The owls are really versatile and can be made in two different sizes and SO MANY different colors!  They can be simple decorations, pendants, tree ornaments, or almost anything really.  They're also super cute!

Large Owl in Anodized Aluminum
















Dragon figurine in Anodized Aluminum
I have also made a couple of Dragons!  They can be a statuette sort of figure or can be worn as what some call and hand flower and some call a slave bracelet.  I wear one this way with my costume for the Renaissance Festival!  I even tried it on as a dragon choker, that may take some tweaking but it can be done.
















There are a ton of variations of the dragons that I have seen, but I have only made it the one way so far.


Dragon as hand flower

On the way to the Festival! 

Dragon as a choker, but still needs some work
Rings and Kits for all pieces completed are from The Ring Lord.

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