Happy Monday

Hello. This weekend went a wee bit different than planned. I planned to show you new earrings with beautiful headpins made by Linda Newnham from Earth Shine Beads. Instead I am showing you a pair I made a while back. Still with gorgeous head pins from Linda!
I combined these with handmade spacer beads made by Amy from Lampwork by Amy in sky blue and oxblood red, copper bead caps and ear wires, brass beads and links and pinkish red seed beads.

 
Thank you so much for looking. These are available in my shop. Wishing you a wonderful Monday full of joy, happiness, laughter and hot chocolate.

Janine

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An earring state of mind

As I am not a full time jewellery creator I have to plan my “play-with-beads” days. Usually they are on a Saturday. I make a cup of coffee, take out my bags of (art) beads and boxes of components and findings, take a seat on the dining table and start fiddling with beads.

What I create next will define what I create the rest of the day. That is just how my brain works. When I start my day creating a bracelet, I simply cannot make a pair of earrings after that. The flow isn’t right. I have tried many times but I always can tell. Usually these designs don’t sell and I take them apart. So, I stick to my routine. When the first creation of my play day is a pair of earrings or a bracelet, I stick to that the rest of the day. A few Saturday's ago I was in an earrings state of mind.

On the hunt for art head pins I came across these beautiful head pins of Elasia. The colours are absolutely gorgeous. They combine beautifully with Czech glass (flowers) and brass. The flow that day was particularly good, as I was able to make 4 pairs. 

Headpins: Elasia
Copper ear wires: Faerystones
Greek ceramic, Czech flower beads, brass.

The first two pairs have sold already but the other two are still available.

Headpins: Elasia
Copper ear wires: Faerystones
African glass beads, Czech glass, brass





 

Headpins: Elasia
Copper ear wires: Faerystones
Lampwork glass beads: Radiant Mind Beads
Brass

Do you recognize this thought/design process? Or is my brain just working a bit weird LOL. That would not surprise me at all.

Anyway, thank you so much for looking. I love to read your comments. See you on the second Monday of September.

Wishing you a wonderful week full of joy, laughter, sunshine and creative design processes.

Janine

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Marvelous Mookaite Earrings

I assisted Earrings Everyday team member, Kristi Bowman Gruel, at a show last weekend.  She spent two nights at my house, as we live about halfway between her house and the bay side town where the show took place. We always have such a good time together.  I love spending time with my beady friends!

A mutual friend and lampwork artist, Sheila Davis, was also at the show.  Kristi cracked me up; entering Sheila's booth, with hands around her eyes, like blinkers.  "I'm not looking", she declared, "I'm just here to say hello".  I totally get this, because to enter Sheila's booth, is to want to buy every bead and pendant she has made.  This is a seriously skilled lampworker!  I wasn't nearly as self controlled as Kristi was.  I walked in wide eyed and walked out with 2 pairs of marvelous lampwork head pins.

 I was attracted to these head pins because the color combination was so unusual.  Once I got them home, I realized that they would go perfectly with Mookaite jasper. Mookaite jasper is found only in Australia.  It has a wide range of colors, most often it is dark red and ochre yellow, but it can also shade toward mauve, white, tan and even purple.

 I placed dark red recycled African glass above the head pins, then gold colored Mookaite nested in copper bead caps. I topped the earrings with small, dark red Mookaite beads.  Then I made a double loop of the head pin wire and wrapped it down, around the red Mookaite.  I wrapped more wire between the glass beads and the bead caps.

I love how these turned out!  Its a good thing I got 2 pair of these head pins, because I may need to keep one pair for myself!

Linda Landig Jewelry

A light bulb moment

Not sure why I still do it, as it doesn’t work at all for me, but I tend to leave things until the last moment.
A long time ahead I think about the tasks to be done. And in my head I already “know” how to do them, how much time it will costs me and what the end result will be. In an ideal world of course. It rarely works out that way. For me at least.

When it comes down to designing I have written down my ideas or sketched some rough designs as soon as they pop up in my head. In an ideal world of course. Sadly, not my reality. At all.

So, yesterday afternoon I sat in front of my precious beads. Typical. No inspiration. None what so ever. After about 2 hours staring in space I started fiddling around with some new headpins I bought from Jennie Yip.

Then it struck: a light bulb moment.
I guess that’s why these cuties look like tiny light bulbs, grin.

Handmade lampwork glass headpins by Jennie Yip (Icedmoments). Check out her shop. She is based in my home country The Netherlands and she is making delicious lampwork beads.
I combined them with sterling silver beads, sterling silver earring hoops and brass rings with a lovely copper green patina, mirroring the color in the glass head pins.

And I had enough inspiration to make a second pair. These are available in my shop.


Thank you so much for visiting and I hope to see you again in 2 weeks. I love to read your comments, so don't be shy. I wish you a wonderful day with lots of joy, sunshine, happiness and light bulb moments.

Janine

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Pinwheels

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've had the privilege of posting on EE, but am happy to say I will be showing up with a post here and there!

These fun earrings were created from lampwork headpins by the talented and lovely Jen Cameron of Glass Addictions.  I layered them onto brass flowers that I torch-fire enameled with bright colors and then wired them onto textured copper ovals.

Even though they are securely attached, they have just enough slack so that the flowers twirl around...sort of like a pinwheel or a whirligig!  Remember these cute little toys?  As a kid, I used to get plastic ones that had little candies in the stem.   I would stick them out the window of the car to let them twirl in the wind as we drove home from the store...much to my mother's disapproval!

From livingtheswelllife.com via Pinterest!

They are so fun....I will be putting them in my shop later today, and will be creating more, since I had the opportunity to snag more of of Jen's gorgeous headpins at BeadFest last weekend!

A sweet bouquet of lampwork headpins by Jen Cameron and Sue Kennedy!

Melissa Meman
Melismatic Art Jewelry
Art. Life. Love.

Shades of Autumn

When I spotted these gorgeous lampwork headpins by Nikki Thornburg, of Thornburg Bead Studio,  I just had to have them...they are so pretty and reminded me of Autumn, my very favorite season. I paired them with a Czech bead and a copper disc that I hammered and then patina-ted. I also mixed metals which I rarely do (although I should because I really like when others do it!).

Here are the current shades of Autumn from my home in Kentucky

To see these earrings or more of my work, check out my website

Thanks :)

Kristy Abner

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