Hi, everyone!
I tried something a little different with these new earrings, which feature a pair of Cathleen Zaring's beautiful butterfly enameled-copper earring components:
FYI, my usual go-to technique to use with components with top holes like these would be something like these earrings I made three years ago...
...and, believe me, I love these earrings and adore working with fiber and knotting this way. But lately I've been having fun going back to playing with wire too.
I'd made antiqued copper wire connector components before for necklaces (below is a detail) but had never tried to use them for earrings, and had never added beads to them.
I thought it might be fun to see how the round connectors would work with this type of earring component, with just a few small beads in coordinating colors wrapped to them (and with a bead wrapped to each matching ear wire too!). I didn't know what to expect, but they have a sleekness, a simplicity, and a modernity that I like--and I don't always end up liking my experiments. 😏
They were also really fun to make. I hadn't gotten my hands really messy in liver of sulfur in a while! 
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| These earrings can be purchased at Two Trees Studio. |
Recipe for Wired Butterflies
Enameled "handbag-shaped" copper earring beads by Cathleen Zaring
22 ga. round antique copper wire wrapped connectors
3 mm Czech glass rounds in amethyst and wine
15/0 Miyuki Delica yellow seed beads
Thanks for reading--I'll be back in a couple of weeks!
xoxo
Meridy
