Pierced Wasser & Clay Earrings

Vibrant teal Wasser glass rectangles suspended from

copper hangers and accented with textured clay discs.

Charcoal pierced Wasser glass, blackened steel

and hand painted spirit hole discs

Irregular pierced pieces of Indigo Wasser hoover over 

hooped Egyptian earthenware scarabs...

Taupe Window Wasser glass pieces, fancy bails,

textured stained clay ovals & pink Wasser

stalactite hangies...

Pierced grey Wasser triangles show off a pair of

hand painted spirit hole stoneware discs...

Melon Wasser squares married to hand painted

scroddled spirit hole discs.

A Past Earring Style Revisited...

The simplicity of Wasser glass shapes placed

over each other, 

 hovering colorfully above delicate

textured stoneware discs or spirit holes...

All of which

become animated by the wearer...

Not to mention 

the statement made in the wearing.

Not a Headpin In Sight!

Beach glass shards tumbled smooth and 

drilled with holes can make an awesome

pair of earrings!

This time it's beach glass buttons which

take center stage as an earring

component. Hand formed and decorated

ceramic clay discs hang in the balance...

Red Wasser glass - lightweight and festive - 

suspended from a decorative copper bail and 

brushed copper ring...

There's that red Wasser glass again, this

time along for the ride with incredibly thin

clay discs transfer printed with rice paper

patterning...

More on Making Earrings...

I love making earrings with my many Spirit Hole discs...

...accented with Wasser Glass shapes

and hand cut faux sea glass hearts from Emily Cohen.

The combination makes a fabulous 'look-at-me'

pair of earrings...

Not to mention lightweight and easy-to-wear!

Time for Making Earrings...

Since I am doing an Earring Workshop in February

at Gallery on Park, Swarthmore, PA, it seemed

like a good idea to bone up on certain skills...

I also wanted to use some of the beads I intend

to share at the event to make samples of earring

possibilities...

Not all the earrings I made include clay beads;

but they do show techniques which work either way.

Amethyst slices and semi-precious beads can make

quite a statement!

Wasser Glass Meets Copper & Clay E A R R I N G S

These waffle Wasser slabs told me exactly what they 

wanted to be as they dropped to my work table from

 their Emily Cohen Florida Ziploc...

Even the interesting shapes of the waffle Wasser have a

unique appeal when layered atop a neutral rectangle 

of plain Wasser glass complemented by a 

clay Spirit Hole disc...

The combination of lightweight Wasser glass shapes 

& paper thin ceramic Spirit Hole discs 

makes these statement earrings such an easy wear...

I'm loving the asymmetrical cuts of Wasser...

...almost as much as this "Put-a-Cork-in-It!" wine bottle 

earring display by Floridian jewelry artist,

Emily Cohen!