Hello, lovelies! It's good to be back--it feels like it's been a while! 💗
The idea for the earrings I'm writing about today started quietly, when I found these beads at Arte Bella Surplus, one of my long-time favorite supply shops:
I didn't buy them for any particular project, but rather because I like window beads and because their cross-like shape reminds me of certain Renaissance (or Renaissance-style) earrings I've seen in photos and in museums.
Below are examples of variations of the same cross motif. The first pair (left to right) is a simple quatrefoil shape, not unlike the window beads pictured above. The second pair below also reflects the cross motif, in two ways: with the petals and the pearls. And the third pair is obviously a cross. Each of these three examples also have a central focus where the arms of the "cross" would meet: the first pair has a tiny quatrefoil flower at its center, and white pearls sit at the centers of the other two pairs.
I had a beautiful pair of small rainbow Goddess charms by KristiBowmanDesign, and just for fun I laid them on my work table next to two of the blue-green window beads, and I had a feeling I might have something special. 💗
I added a pair of beautiful three-sided iris-colored Czech glass window beads, and small gleaming lights of glass and crystal.
Thanks so much for reading!
I'll be back again on September 12.
xoxo
Meridy 💗
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