EARRINGS

Earrings

(There are more examples of earrings on the necklace and bracelet pages as they are included in photographs of sets.)


Wooden beads painted black on cotton thread

Freshwater pearls with green Swarovski crystals 

Red and green Swarovski crystals - has matching necklace

Blue glass beads - part of matching set 

Lapis Lazuli earrings that sold as part of a set 

 

 

Seed beads and green beads made in Kenya from tiny strips of magazines wrapped around then dipped in resin. 

 

Green glass beads

 

Fresh water pearls and green Swarovski crystals - have matching necklace

Seed bead earrings 

Three-strand freshwater pearl earrings 

Three-strand glass bead earrings 

Three strand pewter chain earrings 

Three strand gold chain earrins 

 

 

Pewter colored earrings with green/blue crystal-cut stone inside 

These earrings, made from Black Agate and pale Blue Amazonite beads, and encased with silver bead caps, were made as part of a set. The matching necklace can be seen on the "Necklaces" page.

These earrings, made from ceramic turquoise beads and topped with amber shell beads, were made as part of a set that can be seen on the "Necklace" page.

These pewter earrings with turquoise detail were made with a matching necklace (background) with a box chain.

The large copper earrings looked stunning hanging from double hoops and the turquoise gem inset with one silver detail gave colorful contrast.

These little blue sugar beads were added to sterling silver chains, that I cut to make cluster-type earrings.  Each chain on each earring is a different length, arranged from shortest to longest.

These chandelier earrings were for an unconventional wearer, so instead of the conventional short on the outside to long on the inside, I reversed that order to create a slightly different look.

Because the holes on these iridescent beads were down the sides, the wire had to become part of the piece.  For this reason, I decided to double-loop it through the earring shaft piece and do some wire wrapping, making it a feature of the earring, along with the stone.

I do not have a record of what this type of bead is, but again did a small amount of wire wrapping just above the bead.

This tiger's eye stone had special meaning to the wearer, so I took the gold wire and looped it onto the front of the stone, making a focal point.  This dressed up the stone slightly and made it just a little more whimsical.

I did not make a note of this type of stone.

This is a simple take on a chandelier earring.  I took a short length of sterling silver and added some deep wine-colored Swarovski crystals on the end.

These are the same hoops as the above ones, but used to make cluster earrings. These were made as an interpretation of ones the customer had fallen in love with from a magazine. The only difference was that the ones in the magazine weren't round but teardrop.

Clear Swarovski and black earrings, gentle pearl earrings.

Two different types of metal earrings - copper and pewter.

These glass beads were dressed up with some silver wire wrapping to make them more interesting and less formal.

The purple beads (type unknown) were shown off by gold plated spacer beads.

These beautiful Fire Beads matched perfectly with gold.

The midnight blue glass beads had gold foil inside and can also be seen on the Bracelets page with a matching bracelet.

A collection of beads showing different types, made with chains, foil beads, sugar beads and metal spacer beads.

These black and pink beads were made with plastic beads for a dance.  These are plastic beads to give the earrings an 80s look.

These all-metal beads will match any outfit.

Between the lavender freshwater pearls rests a clear Swarovski crystal.

These earrings were made by cutting up a copper chain and adding clear beads at the end of each chain.