I have been trying to force myself to use yellow--and not cheat, and use "mustard," or "saffron," or "butterscotch" and try to claim it's yellow--I mean, real, honest-to-God YELLOW. As in Tweety Bird. As in Big Bird. As in Sponge Bob. And here is me, above, using
African recycled glass discs in Minion Yellow. I combined them with cool ice blue
African recycled glass tulip beads, stacking them for a little more drama (and hey! Petticoats!) Just the two colors together seemed a little lonely, so I added some
Indonesian glass beads in turquoise. I love these three colors together. There is something French Country about it that seems to make the yellow go down better.
I capped the yellow glass discs with
rustic petaled beadcaps in sterling silver, and capped the petticoats with a pair of my own embossed sterling caps; each petticoat is fastened to the glass disc via one of my sterling silver paddle headpins. I made--as is my habit--the earwires myself and added a couple more turquoise glass beads to pull it all together.
Glass tulip beads from
Happy Mango Beads.
Yellow recycled glass discs from
Afrobeadia.
Petal beadcaps from
Cathy Dailey.
Visit Keirsten and her work at
Lune on Etsy.
