Enameling Ideas

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I am really excited about enameling this year...and it might be because we are starting with electroforming. I feel we quickly ran out of time after just getting into it last year. I have some ideas I would like to try. My main thought is to try electroforming origami shapes. I have found plenty of paper origami jewelry,
http://www.oricraft.com/origamijewelry/
and even some folded metal origami pieces....but have they been

electroformed? Is rice paper 'OK' to burnout? I certainly want to

try something other than the origami crane--it seems like that is the only shape people experiment with. I found some other interesting origami shapes that caught my eye.....

http://nanajewelry.com/Earrings.html

Some other ideas I might want to try involve crumpled paper, aluminum foil, screen, wood shavings, broken glass, mirror, and making wax copies of antique jewelry and then also imbedding the original antique piece into the electroformed piece. More research needed......