New Earring Designs

In between juggling other projects, I created 4 pairs of earrings over the last couple of weeks. These designs were developed to deal with an inventory problem: I had about 18 feet of gorgeous Vintaj Natural Brass chain whose links were too tiny for any matching jumprings I have or could make (without breaking down and ordering WIRE, which I didn't want to do, because then I would end up with a bunch of small gauge wire I didn't need!).

Adding fringe to the bottom of these earrings seemed like a perfect solution! And I have enough chain left over to make one more pair - just trying to decide which beads to use for the last pair!

All of these are available on Etsy.

 

Teal Blue Enameled Long Dangle Earrings with Vintaj Natural Brass Fringe 

 

Raku-colored Lampwork Long Dangle Earrings with Vintaj Natural Brass Fringe

Bright Flame Orange Enameled Long Dangle Earrings with Vintaj Natural Brass Fringe

 

Etched Raku-Colored Lampwork Long Dangle Earrings with Vintaj Natural Brass Fringe

Chandelier Earrings with Gemstones

These findings are neat - one side of the hoop unhooks at the top, so you can slide beads on it. And there's a ring, for dangling stuff - I chose magnesite and crazy lace agate (and some silver spacers and chain) for the dangles, and put some lavender chalcedony and Czech glass on the hoop portion.

Remnants of Summer

These earrings were made with shells I found on the beach at Daufuskie Island the last time I was there, which was way back in 2007 - way too long ago! I miss the beach!

Holiday Swarovski Earrings

These earrings were designed to go with my Holiday Swarovski Bracelet, particular the double decker pair, which are just screaming to go to a party, in my opinion!

The Holidays are right around the corner!

Coffee-lovers' Earrings

Tigers' eye and fancy beadcaps combine in this cute earrings (and some Czech glass and sterling silver spacers) - some people see coffee, some people see tea. I guess it depends on your perspective!

These earrings are just Peachy!

Sorry - I am really bad at titles. But I love puns!

Gorgeous etched peach-colored lampwork beads with gold dots - love them!

I paired them with some pink and off white freshwater pearls, peach-colored Swarovski crystals, and long, skinny peach-colored stick pearls.

I think they are very dramatic, and I love the mix of textures and shapes!

Pearl Dangle Earrings

These earrings are made with Swarovski Pearls and chain - I liked them so much in the mauve that I made a second pair in white.

I like this earring style, because I love for my earrings to have some movement!

Custom Earrings

These are the custom earrings I created yesterday, using the customers vintage bamboo coral and Czech glass beads (and some added sterling silver spacers). Hope she likes them!

Custom Earrings (almost)

Today I'll be working on a custom order; my task is to turn this broken vintage bamboo coral bracelet into a pair of "long, dangly" earrings for the customer's daughter.

Earrings are always a challenge for me - everyone's taste is so different! I know what I like, but am never confident that the customer will like what I come up with.

Stay tuned tomorrow to see what develops!

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Take 2 bright red chili pepper lampwork beads, with little green leafy accents,

Add 2 vintage glass Czech pressed glass beads,

Stitch a small loop with 11/0 green seed beads; hang the leaf and the pepper, with a few seed beads between the two,

Suspend from earwires - Tada!

I love these, and am totally, selfishly, keeping them for myself!

Turquoise and coral earrings

I had some leftover, irregular hieshe turquoise, and some mismatched coral spicules, and I hate to waste beads, so I put them together in these earrings, with a Bali silver bead at the top.

Turquoise and coral are sort of a foolproof combo, don't you think?

Dainty Green Earrings

These gorgeous faceted Czech glass rondelles are green with a blush of pink. I paired them with Swarovski crystals and Bali silver, and topped them with a pink glass seed bead for a little pop of color.

Brown Swirl Glass Earrings

Transparent glass beads with brown swirly stripes, Mocca Swarovski crystals, and Vintaj Natural Brass findings - cute earrings!

Available on Etsy.

New Earring in the Works

My student yesterday was late so I had to fill some time. Not knowing how late she was going to be, I didn't want to dive into the fringe necklace, so I started playing with some beads, wire, and hoop earrings.
This is how far I got before she finally showed up:

Hoping to finish this pair today - they're freeform, so they go fairly quickly, even though I'm doing a pretty dense pattern.

And here is the finished garnet torsade I created while teaching the multistrand class yesterday: