Swaying Branches Earrings

I'm ready for spring and all those sweet colors that come with the blooms, buds and tiny robin's eggs. I created the birch bark sticks from copper, paired them peanut seed beads and check out those tiny bugle beads that look like bark! Swoony. Yes, swoony. (That's swoon-worthy.)

I layered them with a tiny nest charm from Vintaj that I added a touch of color with Vintaj Patinas. I paired them up with two polymer clay Humblebeads, one in a birch pattern and a lilac spacer.

Hurry up earth, start blooming!

Nesting Earrings

Two handmade pewter nests wait expectantly under branch disk beads in a dreamy teal.

I love that you can easily spot nests here in the winter.  Most of the birds have flown south and we await their return with the spring blooms in a few months.  I love the change of seasons and the inspiration they bring.  It's fun to anticipate the arrival of what's next, but it's also nice to enjoy the moment and the season that is in front of us.  Wow, that could be said about all sorts of things in my life - good words to live by.

Golden Nest Earrings

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all.

-Emily Dickinson

Sometimes you just have to the let the charms do all the talking - I paired my tiny golden nest charms with  a little spring of brass chain and 3 entwined brass jump rings. 

Golden Nest Earrings

Heather Powers blogs at www.humblebeads.blogspot.com and her work can be found in her Etsy shop.