Silver Woven Earrings

Here are some silver earrings I made using a weaving technique. 

It has a "domed" look to it.  I want to try these using white pearls too.

Wooden Hoop Earrings

I experimented with some wood components, and made these earrings.

I put two beads in the middle of the hoop, and then put one bead to dangle on the end.  The color palette is all natural wood tones.

Coral Bead Earrings

I decided I needed earrings in a warm pink color, and found these coral beads somewhere in my bead stash.  I'm fairly bad at remembering bead stitches, or even following a pattern diagram (so sad!) so I just tinkered for a while with thread until I came up with this flower pattern.    Hopefully, I'll remember how I did this for the next time!

Red White and Blue Earrings!

Happy Fourth of July all!  Here are some red white and blue earrings made from fire polished crystals.  I wish you all a wonderful holiday, and hope your weather is sunny and beautiful today!

Ladybug Earrings

I came across these red ladybug beads and made them into earrings.  They are actually quite a lot larger than real ladybugs.  Ladybugs make me think of spring and gardening. 

Green Crystal Earrings

I was thinking green because St. Patrick's Day was coming up.  So I used two colors of green crystals for these earrings.  The faceted rounds have a sort of milky opaqueness to them.  The center beads are Swarovksi roundels, which always look good in anything!

Navy Molded Clay Clipon Earrings

These clip on earrings were an experiment.  Firstly, I made a mold from a vintage button.  I created a cabochon from white polymer clay, and painted it many times over with different colors of blue paint and then sealed it.

The second part of the experiment is to glue these cabochons to clip on backs that have a glue pad.  They seemed to adhere well.  I spent a long time deciding how large a cabochon I could use (I have many vintage buttons I can mold!).  These doorknocker motif molds are rather small.  I could not use anything too much smaller, or the metal clips would show when worn.  I could not decide if a bigger cabochon would look odd or not.  I'll leave that for another experiment.

Cream Oval Pearl Earrings

I recently made these clip on earrings using oval (rice) ivory pearls, accented with the tiny round white pearls.  I think it is a nice classic look, and will probably make a pierced pair for myself soon!

Brass Fan Earrings

I've used these cute little brass fan connectors in earrings.   I thought the olive green and turquoise crystals were nice accent colors for the brass.

I'm not so sure about using these connectors in necklaces or bracelets.  They might flop around.  They do show off nicely in earrings, however.

Large Gray Pearl Clip On Earrings

I recently made these large gray pearl earrings for a member of a wedding party.  I think gray is such an elegant color. 

These are 16mm which are a bit difficult to find sometimes.  They are on clipon earring backs.

Ruby Baroque Crystal

These pieces have a very simple design so the focus is on the crystals.  This is Swarovski's "baroque" pendant in the color "ruby", which has more of a blue undertone than a real ruby.

The pendant has many facets and a rippled edge around the bottom and sides.

I used the smaller sized pendants to make matching earrings.  I can't seem to find these pendants in a lot of colors, but I do like this "ruby" color.

Carved Jade with Carnelian

I picked up carved antique jade beads and faceted carnelian briolettes at two different occasions at two different shops.  It took me a while to decide what to do with them, but you see I have put them together into earrings.

I like these two colors together -- the brown and the orange.  I also think the shapes of square and teardrop look nice together also.

Pink Heart Earrings with Painted Flowers

I'm always interested in sampling different beads.  These are heart-shaped glass beads.  A floral pattern is painted on them.  They look to be hand painted.  I don't think I could do such a good job at painting flowers on beads.  With such a nice pattern on them, I didn't add much else to the earrings in order to keep the focus on the pretty beads.

Brown Shell Earrings

I used large flat discs of brown shell for these earrings, and added a dangle of red glass and brown metallic crystal on the bottom.   I think this is a nice color combination, especially for the fall and winter.

Aqua Sea Glass with Shell Sticks

Sea glass is so pretty.  It is translucent and matte.  In these pieces I've used large round aqua sea glass with iridescent aqua shell sticks.   I've used patterns of various shades, sizes, and shapes of smaller glass beads to accompany the larger beads. 

Earrings to match, also!

Black Friday Sale

Happy Thanksgiving!  The time of year for eating and shopping (but then, when isn't it?).  I have put everything in my Etsy shop on sale, at 10% off.  The items will read "Black Friday Sale" in their description with the reduced price.  Some items may not read that way, which means they fell off the "Etsy on Sale" application boat, a story with which I shall not bore you.  Nevertheless, if the items are not showing the 10% discount, I shall merely credit back the discount to the purchaser.  There is undoubtedly a less confusing way to communicate this, but I am feeling fatigued.  And, I am still adding items to my shop.  The sale will continue on to Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Sloppy Sunday, and Cyber Monday.  I made up the Sloppy Sunday name, as I'm not sure if it has a handle yet.  Keep checking the shop!  I must have added at least 20 more earrings in the past 48 hours, I have about another dozen bracelets to add, and haven't even checked out the necklace inventory updates.

You Can Never Have Too Much Blue

You might remember my post on this necklace back in the Spring.  I bought more of the same beads and made coordinating earrings and bracelets.  The clasp and connectors are pewter, which I think looks really nice with these blue beads.  These pieces always make me think of running water.

Ceramic & Quartz

These square ceramic beads are in muted shades of gold and rose.  I added spheres of smoky quartz to them and used golden earwires.  I added an angular twist to the end of the wires.  I like how these turned out, however I can't for the life of me remember where I bought the ceramic beads.  *sigh*

Candy Corn Colored Earrings

I've made these dangle earrings with colored shell discs.  The design is based on the color of candy corn, which is so popular in the fall.  I tried these earrings first with a ball and coil style earhook.  I didn't like that, and then I put them on a kidney wire.  I didn't care for that look either.  Feeling like Goldilocks now, I made simple earhooks out of some German wire, and those I finally liked.