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!
