We're All Ears

Damselflies in Love

Photo credit: National Geographic, Yeo Weng Sang

Earrings Everyday is having a challenge. Taking the photo above as our inspiration we make a pair of earrings. That's it.  

This is the kind of challenge I like. Here's what I came up with. 

I love the way they came out. They are made of left over beads from other projects, but that is the nature of  earrings, isn't it? I feel I went pretty literal with this inspirational picture, because I loved it! I tried to pick up the most prominent colors. The main structure of the earrings is fragile looking bead stringing wire in a dark blue color. The beads are a variety of glass beads. Silver plated copper wire forms the wraps on the dangles. 

Click on the links below to see what others have created.

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Spring Fling Blog Hop

The Royal Purple Dragonfly Unveiled

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The Spring Fling Kit Challenge is co sponsored by Alenka from Pepita Handmade, and Amy from AmyBeads. Alenka made the amazing dragonfly focal, and Amy is responsible for the beads. And this is the big day! After receiving my kit from Amy, I thought about possible designs. Something simple, to feature the amazing focal. But I wanted to use as many of the amazing beads as possible.  I made the necklace first, but frankly, I was a little scared of making holes in the polymer clay focal. I'd worked with poly clay before, but never made holes after baking! But as you can see, it came out just fine. I have worn the necklace twice, and everyone at work admired it. Especially that fabulous focal!

Unfortunately, I was not able to find the right place for those "crackled" beads in the upper left of the picture. I'm anxious to find out how others used them! I wanted to see if I could make earrings from them, but several broke when I tried to put 20 gauge wire through them! Without futher ado, here is my simple but spectacular, Royal Purple Dragonfly Necklace. 

Almost all the beads, a few of my own,  and the spectacular focal, 

I drilled three holes at the  bottom, and added thee of the dark blue beads as dangles.

See the other treasures made with this same assortment here:

  Maryanne contacted me, and she will post at a later date!) Maryanne • Zingala's Workshop  
Therese • Therese's Treasures
Tanya • A Work in Progress
Alenka •  Pepita Handmade
Kepi • A Little of This, A Little of That
Beti •Stringing Fool
Dolores • Crafty D's Creations
Jenny • Wonder and Whimsy
Cynthia • Created Treasures
Mowse • Mowse Made This
Carolyn • Carolyn's Creations