Turquoise earrings

Last week I was wearing one of my various sundry pieces of jewelry when a coworker called me over.

She was looking for a pair of short dangling blue-green earrings to match a top she had at home.

I could do that!

So I gave her my usual disclaimers:

1. I don’t work with precious metal
2. If they break I’ll fix it.

…and got to work. Finding the beads was easy – I have an embarrassingly large stash at this point and I knew I had the perfect color of Swarovski crystal.

They look bent here. I swear they're not.

I wanted to do something a little more that put a few beads on a headpin and call it a day. Earrings are easy when you string beads. Earrings get VERY difficult when you work with wire because then you have the whole “matching” factor to deal with.

So I started to play with the wire and eventually stumbled up on swirling the wire back up to the top of the earring and making a chunky wrap. It took 5 tries. Now I realize I should have pre-curled the wire (maybe around a pencil) before I strung the beads onto it. I’ll have to experiment.

Long story short, coworker was pleased. She asked how much she owed me. (!!) I didn’t take money…I had all the materials (believe you me) and it was a lot of fun getting back into the “string” of things. Bwah!

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Dreams:
1) I worked for Dilbert’s Pointy-haired boss. No comment.

2) I lived in California, a bit north of San Diego. I was very excited because I was only a short day trip away from California beaches

3) Funeral homes began “rating” viewings and funerals depending on the amount of dramatic outbursts that they predicted.

Tags: crystals, earrings, wirework