Day 6 and 7
By francie | March 12, 2012
Hi! I’m still busy here making earrings and playing along with the 30 day bead challenge. Things just got a bit crazy for a few days. We had a house guest for 3 days, and then made an impromptu trip to Cincinnati for the afternoon over the weekend. I also taught two classes last week.
As a quick reminder, the challenge of the day was to create a color palette. You have already seen the sneak peak of my color palette. I went a bit crazy and made 5 pairs of earrings. I like them all. Here’s pair number 1. I like how these kind of look like mermaids or ladies in party dresses. Pair number 2 is a bit simpler.
Pair number 3.
Pair number 4.
I love these. They created a bit of a problem in figuring out how to hang them, but I think they will work. I may have to test drive them a few times before I make more to sell. What you can’t see from the picture is that there is a stem of aqua seed beads that the posts are attached to. After taking this picture I had to go out to dinner, so the photo for the last pair of earrings is a bit crappier. Sorry about that. Here’s the last pair.
I wore these with my new shirt on Wednesday. They don’t hang quite the way I was hoping they would, but they are still cute.
The challenge for Day 7 was to use a different metal in you jewelry. I use lots of different metals in my jewelry, about the only ones I don’t use are gold and platinum, mostly because they are prohibitively expensive. After a bit of thought, I decided to stretch things a bit and go with base metal. I generally avoid it, since some people have issues with it, but for this project it didn’t really matter. Last spring I bought some cool post earrings with mesh screens. I haven’t had much time to play with them, so I figured now was the time. I used glass pearls, size 11 seed beads and some craft wire to make these cute little flowery earrings. I am quite pleased with how they turned out. I will definitely have to experiment more with these little findings.