Pandemic Earrings Album

For the warmer weather, 

I love using all types of glass in my earrings...

From Vintage Wasser glass to Sea glass...

Usually with copper accents...

Pandemic Earring Collection...

See anything you can't live without...?

Email me and we'll arrange a purchase.

BHClaysmith@gmail.com

A Wrinkle in Time Necklace (and Earrings)

Upcycled mid-century watch faces back to back are

slip stitched together with 400 C-lon cord 

interspersed with hollow pressed brass beads...

A handmade ceramic clay button closure...

With an accompanying pair of earrings -

lightweight statements for these heavy times...

Ensemble by Barbara Hanselman

Watch faces from Associated Diamonds

Tis the Season for Wasser Wearing

  

Just when I thought I'd never again see the magnificent 

array of Wasser glass patterned colors, a package

arrives from my dear friend Emily with some

breathtaking Wasser Glass shards...

All the more reason to plan to reverse your earrings

for wearing either way!

Semi-precious Jasper ovals are the perfect complement

to many of the speckled, colorful surfaces...

And seem to work as accents for either side.

New for me, this copper wire swing (with a twist) 

which holds an oval stone under the Wasser shapes...

And just when you thought it couldn't get better,

the other side astounds!

I call this pair Spotted Cat and you can see why; it

seems to be all set to jump through the cultured sea glass

black loops underneath...

Then the reverse of spotted cat with the missing 

spots...and missing cat, replaced by red & green

strokes against a black ground -

Oh what fun!

E A R R I N G S

So I found some cultured beach glass

components I really like and had

to use them in some earrings...

In the two pairs above I used the Fish bones 

in black and "Coke Bottle aqua" as well as

the aqua sea turtles.

The enameled shells (finished on both sides)

are from Gardanne and are accented

by copper fish skeleton connectors...

Last but not least are two more 

hand cut contorted hearts in marigold

glass accented by Wasser mottled

top squares and drops...from Emily

Cohen, naturally!

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.

Have a Heart...

Hand cut HEARTS of STONE-ware & Glass...

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.