Valentine's LOVE Earrings

I'm carrying on with the Valentine's Day projects, still with beads, still with earrings, but this time focusing on these fun "LOVE" charms.  For the first style I went with a double dangle pairing the LOVE charms with little heart charms.  The main beads are pink miracle beads (which are so much prettier than I seem to be able to photograph), faceted rondelles and tiny bi-cones.

Moving on ... Funky Hearts

After a deplorable lack of Christmas updates over the last few weeks (best laid plans and the usual chaos) I'm moving on and starting to work up some things for the next holiday theme - Valentine's Day.

Christmas Earrings - Festive Holly and Fabulous Stockings

I`m taking a break from glittery snowflake ornaments and beaded diamond icicles - of which there are soooo many styles in production - to get back to something I haven`t done in a while, Christmas earrings.  These delicate and festive holly charms are just the thing with these beads and I love how they turned out. Bright lime green gem encrusted beads and gorgeous bright Christmas red glass pearls are accented with gem encrusted collar spacers and silver lined crystal seed beads with teeny tiny silver seed beads.  These are so Christmasy, don`t you think?

Another style uses these lovely Christmas stocking pendant charms.  They are double sided (three dimensional) and quite substantial, so I kept the rest very simple.  Gem encrusted resin beads in dark silvery grey make a nice neutral statement.  Very festive, but a little more understated.

If you'd like to see more, see the Christmas Jewelry section of my Etsy shop.

Multi-Dangle Christmas Earring in Red, White and Green

Christmas Present Earrings in Red, White and Green

Well, I must say, I tried to be nothing but festive while working on these multi-dangle earrings but quite a few non-holiday words were uttered. Under my breath, and to myself, but nontheless, some frustration.  I don't remember it being quite so difficult when I made my first attempt with some Halloween earrings,  but I am still new to the multi-dangle style and to working with jump rings.

Packaging Earrings for Display

My friend and I recently rented a craft table at a local event. We're both new to this, and for me it was a great excercise in digging out all the various things I've made which have ended up in boxes.

Things were all tucked away, but so tucked away that I'd lost track of what I actually had made.  There were boxes of boxes of boxes of various and miscellaneous. Hmmm..  There still are some, if I'm being honest, but I am happy to say there are less of them.

My First Christmas Earrings

These were the first Christmas earrings I made after coming across these lovely silver charms. It struck me that they wanted to be long dangly so I've worked them up with 3 feature beads - crystal for the snowflakes and emerald green for the Christmas trees - and no question they wanted to be sparkly.