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Asymmetric Earrings

Earrings Everyday’s Challenge is “Chart Your Own Course.” I decided to play with asymmetric earring pairs.   Bumblebee Jasper Cabochon. Golden Freshwater Pearls. Swarovski crystals. Pottery Fragment. Freshwater pearls. Swarovski crystals. Lampwork bead. Lampwork butterfly wing. Freshwater pearls. Czech beads. Lampwork bead. Faceted Garnets. Rosebud pearls. Lampwork headpin. Czech glass beads. Faceted Aqua Aura beads. …

Shine On Harvest Moon

Earrings Everyday’s October theme is Harvest Moon. Here are a few pairs of earrings I have made with a moon theme: Shine On Harvest Moon. The moon disks are made from some of my Opal Polymer Clay then dry brushed with several colors of interference acrylics. I added Basha Beads to complete them. Apollo 17. …

Earrings Everyday March Challenge

Every month, Erin Praise-Hintz of Earrings Everyday issues the challenge to make a pair of earrings based on a prompt. This month’s prompt was a photo of dew covered damselflies: The prompt led me to create the earrings above. And helped me solve TWO design challenges that had bedeviled me. I had two “failed” necklaces …

I’m So DIZ-zy, My Head Is Spinning

A few days ago a woman found my Aurora Australis earring disks on Etsy and wrote to me. http://www.etsy.com/listing/219840257/aurora-australis-pair-of-polymer-clay?ref=shop_home_active_20 She is a spinner of wool and wanted me to make her a diz* that looked like my earring disks. Many emails ensued and today I made her the diz at the top of this post. …

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry issued a challenge to make something in this palette: If you’ve been reading this blog long, you know I love a challenge. I mixed up a translucent silver and three shades of translucent pink from the palette and made the lush, mature, gorgeous female figures for the earrings. I added …

Art Jewelry Elements January Challenge

Looking for the ABS Challenge? It is down three clicks! It was a month will a full heart! This month’s challenge from Art Jewelry Elements was open to all! http://www.artjewelryelements.blogspot.com The editors challenged us to use components created by the editors, rescued from our stashes of beads, and to make something from them. I found …

At the End of Your Rope?

Are you feeling at the end of your rope? My dear, late friend Fr. Al Durrance used to say this: God can always be found at the end of your rope. Al had been in the healing ministry for 56 years when he passed last July. He brought me into that ministry in 1994 and …

Earrings Everyday January Challenge

Erin Prais-Hintz of Earrings Everyday (http://earrings-everyday.blogspot.com/2015/01/were-all-ears-january-inspiration.html) gives us a wonderful challenge every month. This month the challenge was to use the new Pantone colors in earrings. Here are the new Pantone colors: Marsalsa is the foundation of the 2015 Pantone Spring/Summer Palate. I used Marsala in the earrings above where I gently marbled together clays …

Goddesses on Mexican Beaches

Yesterday I was photographing some of the lush, female figures that I offer as earring components in my Etsy shop at http://www.susandolphindelaney.wordpress.com. I found my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. I have a brick that has MEXICO stamped into it, so I decided to use it as a prop and to place the ladies …