Day 6 and 7

By | 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.


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