Hearts and Musings

With Valentines Day on the horizon, I've been making heart themed ceramic components. Today's earrings are my first completed heart pieces.

I did a lot of thinking, over the winter holidays, about what direction I wanted to go with my ceramics. Last year I focused mainly on selling my ceramic components. It was a more profitable endeavor than selling jewelry, but I missed designing jewelry - my first love. Also, you have to make a lot of jewelry components if that is going to be your main focus. I didn't enjoy the production pressure that caused me. So I've decided that this year I am going to focus on designing finished jewelry, using my own handmade ceramic jewelry components. I will still occasionally sell beads or design jewelry with art beads from other artists, but mostly I want to tie together my ceramics and my love of jewelry design.

These sweet earrings combine my ceramic heart charms, with Swarovski crystals, commercially made ceramic floral bead caps and sterling silver.  They are one of a kind, which makes them a perfect gift for that one of a kind person in your life - mom, sister, friend or yourself! These will be in my shop later this afternoon. As always, thanks for visiting Earrings Everyday and for listening to my musings on how I'd like to move forward in 2020.

Linda Landig Jewelry

Rustic Hearts Aquamarine Gemstone Earrings

Rustic copper hearts with a dotted hammered texture. Paired with green Aquamarine gemstones and fine silver hoops.  

  My shop has been pretty bare for many weeks now. I have been down and out with migraine headaches. 

Yesterday was one of the only days I've been able to work in what feels like ages. My creative side has been starving for this time. Craving the torch and hammer!

It feels amazing to be able to make jewelry again.

Just listed today... 

These and matching accessories 

available at Art and Soul Jewelry

Peace, 

Heartthrob Earrings

With Valentines Day approaching, I thought some heart themed earrings might fit the bill.

The Heartthrob Earrings feature delicately pink transparent glass beads that have a swirled pattern on the surface.  I topped the beads with Swarovski crystal bicones in a more intense pink. Valentines day seems to call for that touch of bling that crystals bring to the composition.

I used cranberry color Artistic Wire to create the heart shaped head pins and suspended them from sterling silver ear wires.

Wishing you lots of love - from kids, grandparents, pets, friends and family - all year 'round!

Linda Landig Jewelry

Heart and Star

Hi, it's that time for stars and hearts, don't you agree. 

Handmade sterling silver ear hooks (lightly oxidized)

Pewter ring findings

Matte rose large seed beads

Pale yellow semi-precious stone round

Pewter heart and star

Green pewter capped faceted glass drops on a pin - CrowsCacheSupplies

All my best,

Malin de Koning

www.beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.se

Prairie Rose

I'm running the risk of repeating myself here! I've just looked over my last post, having started writing this one, and I was basically about the say the same things. So, suffice it to say here, that not much has changed in the last two weeks!  So I'm sharing a pair of earrings I made shortly(-ish) before Christmas.

They're predominately czech glass, with a few Indonesian glass beads and a couple of dinky pearls thrown in. They're available here in my Etsy shop.

It seems odd that I've yet to make anything new, jewellery-wise, in 2015 - apart from magazine work. I'm really looking forward to getting back to designing and kicking off the year with some new and fresh pieces. 

Earring Display: Moxie Metal

Check out the wickedly cool hand forged metal displays for jewelry from Sparkafarian on Etsy.

MOXIE METAL jewelry display set



MOXIE METAL ladder style earring display



I am totally not into fluffy pink and red hearts, but there is something sweet and special about these grungy and rustic heart themed displays that just tugs at mine. Totally on my wish list.

Erin Prais-Hintz invites you to go on a journey of inspiration at her blog Treasures Found :: Inspiration is Everywhere. You can view a gallery of her work at http://www.tesoritrovati.com/ or purchase her new line of 'Simple Truths' in her Etsy shop.

I Left My Heart In Santa Fe

OK, I've never actually been there. But it sounds really cool (adobe architecture! pueblos! sun!) and I'm sure if I went there, I probably would leave my heart there.

I made these little earrings in a southwestern color palette, with turquoise magnesite, green turquoise, and glass seed beads in crimson. Pewter heart charms from Happy Mango Beads, and ruffled sterling silver beadcaps from Etsy seller Cathy Dailey.

Of course, you would have to wear these with jeans and boots--and I'm thinking a skinny turtleneck in vanilla cream.

See more at my Etsy shop!

I Heart You

My original plan was not to post a Valentine inspired post,

but things don't always work out as planned.

I love these earrings so I'm happy to share them in the end.

Copper Hearts and Wonderful Lampwork Beads by SueBeads!

There are also tiny bits of Sari Silk tied below the beads.

While I'm at it I may as well go for it huh?

Here are a couple other Valentine themed items!

Can you tell I'm hungery?!?!?

Source: sixsistersstuff.com via Kristi on Pinterest

Source: afarmgirlsdabbles.com via Kristi on Pinterest

These Heart Earrings and other jewelry and components available in my Etsy Shop.

I'm also Celebrating my 1,000 sale in my Etsy shop
 by having a sale Friday 27th-Saturday 28th
15% off everything using the coupon code CELEBRATE

Kristi 

Hopeful Mermaid Love

Mermaid Love

The beads in these earrings make me think of clear green seawater and frothy sea foam, and there's something mysterious and wistful about those little heart padlocks--perhaps from a sunken treasure chest, with a lonely mermaid's trousseau inside? Even the beadcaps make me think of seaweed....Maybe these would be put aside for a mermaid's wedding day.

Of course I picture them with a mermaid-y sea green gown,

Gown by Jack Guisso, from Dolce magazine

 and a mermaid headdress. 

By Thyme2Dream on ArtFire

Stop by and visit my Etsy shop if you'd like to see more!

A Weathered Heart

Sometimes a heart takes a beating. It gets broken, torn, exposed to harsh elements, stitched up, and broken again. The rough majesty of an oft-broken and mended heart, like the scars of an ancient and battle-worn blue whale, is what makes it beautiful, fascinating and trustworthy.

These copper hearts by Shannon LeVart have a rich verdigris patina, as if they had lain for centuries in a rain-spattered grotto before being unearthed by a wide-eyed treasure hunter. I've suspended them from rustic copper knots in a burnished chestnut patina, also by Shannon LeVart. They hang from hand-formed copper earwires, each embellished with an amber glass seed bead. You can see more of them HERE, and visit my Etsy shop HERE.

I would have to wear these with something humble, time-honored and built for comfort, like a cozy fisherman sweater:

sturdy and serviceable boots to get me where I need to go (and kick some tuchus):

a favorite pair of jeans that has been there and back, many times:

and a toasty pea coat!

Makes me think of Julianne Moore in Shipping News. 

I would also need this with hot coffee in it.  

And probably this too.