Lately in some of my earring designs I've been searching out different elements and colors than I usually favor, mostly as a way to push myself out of my comfort zone a little, which in turn seems to help to keep my creativity sparking.
This week's earrings feature a pair of Nicola Morse's brass paint effect-and-resin charms:
The charms themselves are Different Element One: I rarely use gold or gold-tone metal. Even so, they're so beautiful that I couldn't resist them! I decided to pair them with lampwork glass--glossy blue discs by Helen Chalmers and small streaky mango-colored rondelles by Beth Mellor.
Different Element Two was kind of randomly imposed: I'd decided that these earrings had to have chain, something I've almost never used in my earrings. Somehow the delicate gold-filled chain I found finishes these earrings perfectly. I used gold-filled head pins to wire-wrap 2-mm round turquoise beads and 11/0 gold-plated seed beads to each segment of the chain and hung them all from gold-filled jump rings. Hey, once I decided to go gold, I went all out! 😉
They're long, lightweight, and swingy. They'll be in my shop soon.
Thanks so much for reading about my adventures in golden charms and chains. I'll be back in a few weeks! 💗
xoxo
Meridy
