Day 66. Old ideas, new glass. Make sure you scroll down to see the bottle that these earrings came from!! I love it when people give me their old bottles, and I get a chance to play with new glass. This was a gorgeous glass to use, and a great colour!
Day 65. I added a little silver sparkle in between the beads today. I like how it makes everything pop a little bit more.
Day 64. Sometimes it’s nice to take an idea and try it a few different ways, because I actually love this shape, and I don’t use it often enough in earrings, so I am glad I decided to try adding some frit and I love the little red bead just adding to the pop of colour in these earrings.
Day 63. So following on from yesterday, I thought I would try adding frit to other shapes! I like the contrast in these earrings.
Day 62. I was on the torch yesterday, and I started thinking about beads I used to make that I don’t make any more. And I remembered some beads that looked a bit like this, with the frit, but square in shape, so I decided to make some and here are today’s earrings, inspired by beads I made when I travelled to the USA for a year. That was a LONG time ago!
Day 61. You know when you buy special things, and then you don’t use them because they were quite expensive, and you think you will just save them for a special occasion, and then there aren’t any special occasions…yeah, that’s kind of like these gold earring hooks and wires! I bought them ages ago and haven’t used them…until today! I have put them on a Moet champagne bottle bead that has been coated with gold pixie dust. Special enough? Today it is.
Day 60. Well I guess this is what happens when I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about earrings…I take apart old necklaces and use the beads in slightly, hopefully new ways to get me through this little busy spell. Here’s to spending a bit more time dreaming of earrings soon.
Day 59. Another busy day! Enjoy these bird earrings!
Day 58. Some days I struggle to find the time to make a pair of earrings! Like today, there are lots of other things I need to do. So this morning when I sat down to make this pair I just kept telling myself to keep it simple, take an existing idea and tweak it, just a little, you never know. And today I am so glad I did, because these earrings could actually end up being 4 pairs of earrings! Pair 1 is pictured. Pair 2 is the birds on their own. Pair 3 is the flowers on their own. And Pair 4 would be the simple hoop on its own. Love making things every day!
Day 57. Thanks for indulging me in my little triangle shaped earring adventure! I was curious to see a range of bead shapes in this style of earring. I like that all of the beads worked well, some maybe more dramatic than others, some just classic, like this pair! The beads in this pair of earrings were made from a Banrock Station wine bottle.
