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.

Chaindeliers - Dangle Those Chains

I've been seeing some lovely chain fringes in pieces lately.

I had shaped the steel wire and polymer pieces quite some time back. I baked the flattened and textured  poly clay right onto the hammered steel wire and used the distressed Rustic Beads Tutorial from The Blue Bottle Tree

 It occurred to me to add some lengths of copper chain with jump rings for some free hanging movement

They are fairly light and make a nice statement. The center pieces are some antique headpins with very fine coiled wire

I hope you all have a lovely full moon, solstice and Merry Christmas.

I'll be gone for the next month so I'll see you again in February!

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