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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Beyond the Fringe

Strange times continue. One of the few times I feel really at peace these days is sitting at my bead table, no news on, just listening to the birds outside for whom life is unchanged. So it's very good timing for this years #the100dayproject2020. Post a piece of work each day on your Instagram account and hashtag #the100dayproject2020. It'll be the third year running I've participated - can't promise that I'll do it every day, but it offers structure and motivation in a chaotic period.

Today was Day 1 and I chose to make something bright and cheerful. We all need it.

These gorgeous enamels are by Candan Imrak. I wired a fringe of rainbow haematite beads along the bottom edge together with a czech glass drop which perfectly matches the green in the enamels, as do the enamelled copper earwires by Lucy Haslam. Very flirty!

                             Please, all of you, stay safe till we meet again. And do think about joining in.

                                                                          Lindsay x

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Monday, April 17, 2017

Easter, Twigs and Fringes

Easter time. School holiday. We've had a busy and nice week with excursions and meetings with friends and family. I made these earrings just last night. Twigs and Fringes.

Art beads:
Ceramic twigs - Donna Perlinplim

Other components:
Different coloured waxed linen cord
Messy wrapped oxidized copper wire
6/0 seed beads
Handmade oxidized copper earrings hooks

Now, as I sit here and write this blog post and watch the images I took earlier this morning, I realize I must have been subliminally inspired by the season of the year and the typically traditional Swedish Easter decorations of coloured feathers on twigs or tree branches. It wasn't at all what I thought about as I made them last night. Isn't that just fascinating how the mind works in lovely mysterious ways :-).

All my best,

Malin de Koning

www.beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Earth Maiden

Woodstock Earrings

A bit of a flashback to the late 60s, these fringe earrings would have fit right in at Woodstock or Monterrey. Earth Maiden is just my idea of a potential Earth Mother figure, who is still being groomed for the position, sort of an apprentice type situation. You can almost smell the green meadow where dancers twirl about in a carefree frenzy, until the next morning when they wake up dehydrated, sunburned and covered with insect bites. Earth Mother and Earth Maiden will be there to nurture the wayward souls.

These earrings started out with the turquoise deerskin lace and the darkened copper ring and grew from there. I added nylon cord in blue and green, and the seed beads in chartreuse and turquoise with accents of African red orange seed beads, resulting in a tribal Bohemian fringe design. I make the ear wires from 19 gauge copper wire and oxidize them for that primitive look that is characteristic of my work.

Gloria Ewing
Chrysalis Jewelry on Artfire
Chrysalis Too on Etsy

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

On the Fringe

The title refers to the earrings above and not to the state of my mental health, although some may argue that it could apply to either one of those or to both. I use 20 gauge pins that I purchased with balls on both ends, that I have twisted around my own hand forged bronze hoops. The twisted wires have been slightly flattened with my hammer and then lightly patinated with verdigris for an even more rustic look. Maybe one day I will work up the courage to fire up my torch that was a Christmas gift and is still in the package. Then I could make my own ball pins, but for now I am still buying them. On the fringe?

The earrings were inspired by a design on Etsy from The Purple Lily Designs.