craftgrrl | jewelry

These earrings were made from beads that I spent two days trying to make. Day one, I didn't pay enough attention to the placement of the flowers, and they looked sort of crappy. Day two, I tried extra hard, and out of the 8 beads I made, only these two survived. They're sky blue with clear encasing, and decorated with white flowers. I think I shocked them somehow while I was working on them. Maybe I need to move my kiln closer to my work space so they don't crack along the way? The wire, earring hooks, all the metal - is sterling silver. The crystals are swarovski, and the little pearly accents are little pearly seed beads.

Closeup of the earrings.

These beads were sort of an experiment, but I love how they came out. I took a pink base, encased it with clear, and then rolled it in frit made from the same sky blue as the earrings. They I decorated with raised purple flowers. The necklace is strung on beadalon, and all the metal bits are also sterling. I used blue, pink, and clear swarovski crystals, and pearly seed beads for accents.