Earrings for Sale

I finally got around to making a pair of purple chandeliers a couple weekends ago for someone in our Marketing department at work who asked me for them a month and a half ago (they take a while to make, and I didn't have enough time until then).  I didn't take a picture of them, but I used the same Swarovski crystal beads that I used for my cousin's earrings that you can see a few posts back.  The only difference is the base I used to hang the beads from.  If you look even further back at the purple and pearl chandeliers I made, you'll see the same base I used for these earrings.

Anyhow, another lady in the same department noticed her earrings, loved them, and asked me to make her some in green. 

I didn't use Swarovski beads, but the effect was the same. 

A lady in my department asked me to make her a couple of pairs of earrings, one to match a necklace, and another to replace another pair, one of which she  lost.

The necklace was a beautiful gold and black glass heart on silk and cord ribbon, so I bought some dyed freshwater pearls to put together with the black glass beads I had left over from my pink necklace, copying the earrings then too.

The earring on the left was the original, but I could not find any beads to match that exact colour, so I used a redder blue (That makes sense, trust me.  My dad works with printing inks and I hear him say this stuff all the time).  I also used etched bugle beads instead of the plain ones to jazz them up a little.  I even bit the bullet and bought some seed beads, which I am terrified to work with because they're so small.  They came out a little longer than the original too.  I liked these so much, I made myself a pair, but without the little jump ring in the middle.  I just won't wear them to work!

Jewellery Class #3

In our third class we made a bracelet out of some glass and plastic beads, one type of which were tube beads, which I must say I didn't know about before I saw them.

We also made a cool necklace and earrings set out of chain.  Instead of a clasp in back, there's a toggle clasp in the front, which makes it the focal point of the necklace.  The teacher brought the chain pieces already cut to size, so we just assembled them.  They're pretty simple, but elegant, and I've worn them with a black turtleneck, and they look really nice.