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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Glide And Soar

I recently purchased 2 pairs of wonderful polymer clay feathers from Helena Benkoczka of Areto.  They were my first purchase from Helena and they turned out to be even prettier in  person than they appeared online.  I was so happy when I received them that I set right out to design a pair of earrings with the feathers. I forgot to take a picture of the feathers before I made the earrings, but here is a picture of the second pair that I received.  Cool, huh?
At fall Bead Fest I got some very cool chain that I was dying to use. I love that each of the links have such detailed textures.  My new feathers were the perfect excuse to try out an idea that had been floating around in my mind, since I got the chain.

I disassembled part of the chain and used two of the stick shaped links.
I very carefully bent the sticks into U shapes - I learned to shape them slowly and gently after I snapped the first stick link in half!
I attached the U shaped links to the feathers using some of the jump rings from the chain and then I used some smaller jump rings, from my stash, to connect the U shaped sticks to the ear wires. 
These feather earrings are so lightweight, that I picture them soaring upward on a gust of wind and then gliding gently back down to earth.
The Glide And Soar earrings are available in my shop.

10 comments:

  1. Brilliant Linda, I used many of those chain links and it never occurred to me to bend them. Jana's feathers are beautiful as are the earrings you created!!

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  2. The feathers are beautiful and you did them justice. I love how you bent the metal on the chain.

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  3. Beautiful genius! Great idea and lovely design!

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  4. YAY for polymer clay!! Thank you for featuring these beautiful beads in your post today. This wonderful medium does not get enough attention from artistic bloggers such as yourself, yet there are so many wonderful poly clay bead makers who truly push the boundaries of the refined and the sublime.

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  5. You totally nailed the design. Gorgeous!

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  6. Awesome idea bending the chain links! The earrings look fantastic! <3

    Laura xo

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  7. So pretty! Love the use of polymer feathers!

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  8. Awesome design! Love how you used the chain.

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  9. Linda, I love what you did with these! Really really creative. I also very much love the chain. What a great find. Would love to have that in my stash! I just made my first purchase from Helena also! Mine has not yet arrived, but hopefully soon. I did not get the feathers that I wanted -- I just talked with her about that and she said she'd definitely be making more. But I have other fun designs. Can't wait. I'm so glad you shared these. I love them. <3

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  10. good job and they are gorgeous!!!

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