Hand Painted, Hand Cut Components for Earrings...

Emily Cohen's handcut glass hearts 

are a great beginning for these hand painted components...

Some are accented with copper findings while others

are finished with silver findings...

Glass hearts are made fun with the inclusion of

geometric designs and these have it on both sides...

These also are patterned with what I call Cobblestones

on both sides but in different colorways...

 

Frosted cultured beach glass pieces make a great canvas

for simple as well as complicated lines, dots or swirls...

And these round ceramic clay discs also become

more interesting with patterns and color...

Opaque mauve glass handcut hearts become

plaid (on both sides) accented with facetted glass

drops and copper pinch bails... 

Even textured glass squares become more interesting 

with the addition of color and some underglaze

patterned clay Spirit Hole discs...

...And you thought copper wire was only for wiring a house!

16 gauge wire hammered flat into shapes or curves

are a great way to show off stones

 like these Jasper ovals...

Wire also is a complement to Vintage watch faces

especially when you place them back to back

on a pair of dangle earrings

so you look good both coming and going...

The Southwest patterns on these earthenware slabs

are also a good fit with copper wire; these two

are finished on both sides making them reversible...

Spirals can be mesmerizing! Combine them with

semi-precious Sodalite chunks to create earrings

with that winning combination...

Stoneware slab shards (finished each side) are

topped with copper coiled wire stems

which end in smaller spirals...

Faceted Oregon Opals dangle from these textured

copper buttons accented with copper wire

interlocking spirals...

And all of this wire was up-cycled by Linda Anderson

after completing some updates on her home; she

was kind enough to share it with me...

Beach Glass Surprize!

My friend Emily Cohen has sent me so much of the

darker green tumbled beach glass pieces that I was

quite overwhelmed with what to do with all of it...

After windchimes, my first thought of course is 

E A R R I N G S !

After painting the glass with some geometric patterns

or cobblestone designs and baking them to set the 

colors, the translucency of the glass accents them...

Especially when they are worn outside on a bright

sunny day at the beach!

Flamework and Semi-Precious Beads to Wear...

Necklaces can be simply a fluted copper focal bead

on a snake chain...or a copper coil topped rectangle

of cultured glass with complementary earrings...

But what would the glass in these earrings be without

the amethyst slices which hang beneath...Another

great wearable bead is hand formed using the flame

work method as represented by these four totally

different necklaces below...

Earrings of flamework donuts with Amethyst and

copper wire accents are a marriage made in heaven.

Semi-precious Agate cut & polished into a multitude

of shapes lend themselves to very wearable earrings.

Then it's back to flame work opaque glass donuts 

and opalescent rounds again for the ear...