Silver tassels

Hello Earring People!

Here we are in May already and despite the strange times we are living in, nature carries on doing her thing. My garden is awash with flowers and blossom at the moment (I don't really garden, so this is always a source of amazement to me).

I've been enjoying taking some time to create some jewellery this past week. This particular design has been fun to make! The first pair feature aragonite -a pretty pale yellow stone which is an earth healer, apparently and symbolises truth and understanding.

I set these in little squares of silver, which I also stamped with some simple pretty lines and added the silver tassels to finish them off.

This next pair feature turquoise cabochons, and honestly -who doesn't love turquoise and silver? Such a pretty combination. And it is supposed to bring calmness and serenity, so what's not to love? I kept the setting simple for these and kept the focus on the stones, with tassels for extra prettiness.  

These will both be in my nextshowcase over on The Jewellery Show at the end of May. I'll be back in a couple of weeks.

Stay safe and well

Sue x

Leaves on a Stem

A simple yet effectful design, all in the combination of the components.

Ingredients:
Large faceted acrylic leaves
Sari silk, slightly wrapped by 24 gauge heavily oxidized copper wire
Handmade oxidized sterling silver earring hooks



All my best,
Malin

Memory Lane

Hi, today I thought I'd take a walk down memory lane. Here are three pairs of earrings I made before, that I hope still can inspire you.

Ingredients:

Faceted pyrite drops

Yellow vinyl spacer discs

Hammered look rhombic lucite beads

Swarovski bicone crystals

Oxidized copper wire

Handmade copper earring hooks

Ingredients:

Stone pebbles, hand picked by a friend of mine near 

where I grew up, then she tumbled and drilled them

Swarovski bicone crystals

Oxidized copper wire, two different gauges

Handmade heavily oxidized silver earring hooks

Ingredients:

Metallic pewter love knot beads

Oval metallic rings

Matte turquoise nuggets

Oxidized copper wire

Handmade brass earrings hooks

All my best,

Malin de Koning

These Earrings Had to Have Chain

Lately in some of my earring designs I've been searching out different elements and colors than I usually favor, mostly as a way to push myself out of my comfort zone a little, which in turn seems to help to keep my creativity sparking.  

This week's earrings feature a pair of Nicola Morse's brass paint effect-and-resin charms:

The charms themselves are Different Element One:  I rarely use gold or gold-tone metal.  Even so, they're so beautiful that I couldn't resist them!  I decided to pair them with lampwork glass--glossy blue discs by Helen Chalmers and small streaky mango-colored rondelles by Beth Mellor. 

Different Element Two was kind of randomly imposed: I'd decided that these earrings had to have chain, something I've almost never used in my earrings.  Somehow the delicate gold-filled chain I found finishes these earrings perfectly.  I used gold-filled head pins to wire-wrap 2-mm round turquoise beads and 11/0 gold-plated seed beads to each segment of the chain and hung them all from gold-filled jump rings. Hey, once I decided to go gold, I went all out!   😉

They're long, lightweight, and swingy.  They'll be in my shop soon.  

Thanks so much for reading about my adventures in golden charms and chains.  I'll be back in a few weeks!  💗

xoxo

Meridy

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Let's go to the Fun Fair?

Scene: You have an extremely messy bead table. So many ideas and concepts tried out over a long period, which has left a myriad of beads and components just laying there. You sit and plainlessly fumble around with your beads. It's such an enjoyable process indeed. Then suddenly, you have something you didn't ever consider in the first place. But you like it somehow.

There is something about these earrings that make me think of some kind of fun fair or a merry-go-round from around the turn of the century 1900. Or a spinning top toy. You know the ones where you press a rod at the top and they start spinning. When I look at them I feel like I am happily swirling round and round.

Art beads:
White distressed matte glaze on dark ceramic cones - NadiaTerra
Green and lime glazed on edge raku fired on dark ceramic heishis - Jubilee

Other beads and components (from bottom):
Brass head pins
Brown 8/0 seed beads
Turquoise rubber heishi spacer beads
Gold and white distressed plastic bumpy heishi beads
Turquoise rubber heishi spacer beads
Red rubber heishi spacer beads
Red coral heishis
Opal white gilt lined 6/0 seed beads
Oxidized brass wire, messy wrapped
Brass square profiled rings
Vintaj brass earring hooks

All my best,
Malin

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Tonal-Color Blingy Fun!

Hi! I have had the privilege of introducing Meridy Migchelbrink, designer/creator and owner of TwoTreesStudio, to you previously as a guest contributor. I am so very happy to be introducing her now as one of our new regular contributors to Earrings Everyday! You likely already know that Meridy's style is beautifully unique. I am very happy she has joined us.

norbel

Hi, everyone, Meridy Migchelbrink of Two Trees Studio here--Happy New Year to you all!  This is my first time here as a regular poster on Earrings Everyday, and I'm happy and honored (if a little nervous!) to be a part of the talented designers and lovely people here and to share my newest 2017 earrings.

"Mermaids"

Because this is my maiden voyage, I thought with these earrings I'd try something I never do. I set myself a specific challenge, rather than what I usually do: fall in love with a component or bead (or what I like to call the "lightning bolt" school of inspiration, ha!). I decided my criteria would be:

1. Tonal-color elements, that is, all elements in tones of the same color (copper accents excepted).
2. Bling!
3. Grace.
4. A touch of whimsy.

These 25 x 10mm blue hammered brass oval links from the fabulous Shannon German of MissFickleMedia were my starting point:

Their lines are graceful, clean, and simple…perfect to build upon. 

So I gathered up the rest of my turquoisey/teal elements. 

I found these 2-mm Celsian Czech glass beads at www.FusionBeads.com (and also added a few non-Celsian beads from my stash in different shades of blue for contrast):

Then I gathered up from my own bead hoard blue Czech glass bell flowers, tiny teal glass tulip flowers, blue rhinestone rondelles, scalloped copper bead caps, and teal-blue Irish waxed linen:

For those of you who are unfamiliar with my work, I make a lot of my earrings with fiber rather than wire, and generally the technique doesn’t take a whole lot longer than wirework construction does.  As you can see in the photos of the earrings, the beads are strung on the thread/cord, and in these earrings the wrapped section ends just at the top of the first 2-mm bead.  These earrings took longer to make only because it was unusually tricky to get the cord wrapped and secured exactly the way I wanted it to.  I was literally sweating it, but it came together in the end--whew!  Wipes brow.  ;)

I was especially pleased with the wave-pattern repetition of scallops in the sets of flower beads, the rhinestone rondelles, and the copper bead caps.  I hadn’t consciously chosen those beads for that reason, but something must have been at work subconsciously!  Consciously, I just liked how they looked together, and that's good enough for me too.  :)  

Thanks so much for looking! My wish for you all is a peaceful, happy, and creative 2017. I'd love to hear what you think about my whimsical Mermaids or about anything Earrings-ish. I'm grateful to be a member of this group...and I'll be back in a couple of weeks with something new! xo Meridy

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Winged Things

Some of you know I am a Bird Enthusiast and I also love Butterflies, Bees and Bats and any other Winged Things. Truth be told, I am a fan of Nature in general.

I've been wanting to create painted wings for some time and I finally found the right ones that would allow me to paint them and I've also recently been playing with Ice Resin. So the 2 have come together beautifully in these Blue Wing Earrings. I hope you agree!

These earrings available to purchase HERE

I'm making them in lots of different color combinations and they will be available in my next online trunk show. I hope you can join me HERE on Jan 6th. There will be lots of wings and much much more!

And I'll be giving away this Wing Pendant!

In the last few days, Lynn and Norbel have given you retrospectives of the past year. I've so enjoyed seeing all of their beautiful earrings and we will miss Lynn who has a very exciting 2017 coming up and we will miss her but we are so happy for her! But I decided to to look ahead at what's coming in the near future for me. I've had a rough few years and I'm dealing with a rather serious health issue at the moment. I think being able to stay creative has saved my sanity many times over. Rather than look back I definitely wanted and needed to look ahead at what's coming. I'm looking forward to getting past all of these lingering issues and being the healthiest I've been in many years in the new year.

Here's wishing everyone out there a wonderful and Creative New Year!! May your days be filled with Health and Happiness in 2017 and Beyond!! We are so very excited to have 2 new lovely ladies joining us here on Earrings Everyday. Thank you all for being with us along the way!!!

Kristi

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Twisted and Turquoise

Ingredients:
African Turquoise nuggets
Pewter oval links (taken from a chain)
Pewter knot beads
Oxidized copper wire (messy wrapped)
Handmade oxidized brass earwires

All my best,
Malin
www.beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com

East Meets West

I call these East Meets West because there is a bit of an Asian feel to these earrings. I think it's the combination of the painted Medallions and the Heishi Pearls maybe and the Turquoise Barrels always make me think of the West.

I love this color combination.

These earrings are available to purchase

HERE

Kristi

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New Dress - New Jewelry

My brother is getting married this weekend, which seems like a fine reason for me to treat myself to a new dress.

 And with a new dress, comes the need for matching jewelry. Its hard to really see the pattern in the fabric from a distance.  Here's a close-up.  Lots of pretty jewel tones to work with in designing coordinating jewelry. 

Of course I'm still making jewelry the night before our flight to L.A. for the wedding. Its 9:30 p.m. and the earrings are done.  The necklace is only about half complete and I haven't even packed yet.  At this rate, I may be finishing the necklace in the hotel hours before the big event.  Oy !

The saucer shaped beads are Thai Hill Tribe beads that I bought long ago when such things were affordable!  I dangled 3 lengths of silver chain beneath the silver beads.

I placed Swarovski crystals above the silver beads and wire wrapped crystals to the end of each chain dangle.  The crystals are turquoise but they have an emerald green AB finish on one side, so they accent the 2 main colors in the dress.  And people keep telling me that L.A. style includes more bling than I'm used to.  So I definitely have the bling thing going on here.

 The necklace has Swarovski crystals too and some beautiful lampwork glass beads.  I'll share it on my blog after the wedding. 
Hope you are enjoying sunny weather!  L.A, will be hot!

Linda Landig Jewelry

Blue Bells

Gorgeous Blue Flower Headpins from Lara Lutrick paired with cool Pyrite discs.

I strung little silver beads inside the disc which seemed like a simple task but it was not an easy!

But I'm glad I persisted and got them in there because I love the way they look.

I added some gorgeous little Glass Beads on top which match the flowers almost perfectly!

They hang about 2" from Handmade Hypoallergenic Niobium Earwires.

Kristi

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Turquoise Thistles

Even though fall is here, I seem to be longing for color. Or maybe it's because of that. Fall in Sweden is not a dull season at all when it comes to colors. On the contraire. We get the beautiful bright blue skies, and lots of fall colors.  

And I really like to use waxed linen in my jewelry. It adds a lovely soft fabric texture, and also a possibility for color coordination and playfulness. 

Turquoise thistle motif (or is it pine?) polymer clay coin shaped beads - BeadsByEarthTones

 Handmade oxidized silver ear hooks - JNicLoft 

Turquoise picasso three-cut czech glass beads

Turquoise waxed linen cord

All my best,

Malin

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Repurposed

I was recently at an outdoor antique show and bought a brooch with the sole purpose of taking it apart and reusing the silver and gold dangles (bottom of the earrings pictured). The brooch had about 5 of these and I knew I wanted to use a couple of them for earrings. Really happy with the way these turned out. I sold them back in June at an art festival.

Antique and thrift stores are filled with treasures that you can repurpose. Do you have a favorite store that you frequent in hopes of finding items to repurpose and use in your jewelry designs? I have several and one of my favorites is the Burlington Antique Show. It's an outdoor show that happens only once a month, April thru October. It was on the PBS show, Market Warriors and also voted "The Country's 10 Best Flea Markets for the Coolest Finds!" by Yahoo.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend,

Kristy Abner

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Sunny Skies

When I think of sunny skies, I think of Turquoise and Gold;

The sky and the sun, energizing our soul.

Summer brings out the BOLD side of me.

Do you find this too?

Lighweight and airy, these one of a kind earrings are ready for Summer!

 Featuring little nuggets of real Turquoise and all 14kt Gold Filled construction.

Odessa XXL Extra Large Gold Hoops Earrings with Turquoise by Nathalie Lesage Jewelry

I want to wear accessories that are larger, more colorful,

bolder, more eye catching...

I think these Turquoise & 14kt Gold Filled Earrings fit the bill ;)

You can find these extra large gold hoop earrings HERE.

Have a fantastic day!

Nathalie Lesage

http://www.NathalieLesageJewelry.com

Amaya

When I spotted these Bohemian Gypsy Soul art tiles by JLynn Jewels I knew I had to have a pair...problem was...which color combo would I choose, there were so many! After much contemplation, I chose this pair because I pictured combining turquoise (of course!) with these and my new love of orange/yellow paired with turquoise. Very pleased with the way they turned out!

 I think they would look great with a white peasant blouse like this one found at the rusty zipper.

                               These earrings are available HERE on my website.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations