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I call knee surgery for non-TAD posts the past few days and am posting 2 pair of earrings today to celebrate ability to sit for more than 15 minutes with knee un-elevated at my jewelry workshop (and to catch up). Can you tell I was into these green drops today?

The above shot is to show the hammering on the wire since it’s not really visable in the first shot.

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I couldn’t resist trying to work these amazing labradorite drops into something. I’m having fun with hammer and anvil, though I’m still working on technique so I can repeat designs. Not sure if I’ll be posting anything tomorrow as am having knee surgery, but who knows!? Maybe I will come up with some kooky post anesthesia design!

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I can’t get the brilliance or the color of these earrings to come across in photos, but as I’m sure you can gather, they are of the sparkly nature. Must be a theme.

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Timeline Shmimeline. I took out these crystals together and they had to stay together. A match made in Heaven? Perhaps. Maybe I’m harkening back to my black and gold high school colors…but probably not. I kept hearing Robin Leach wishing you champagne wishes and caviar dreams, and somehow this bracelet materialized under my needle nose pliers. I banged a little on the wire to give it some hardening and texture. My camera skills did not capture the sparkle, but believe me, it’s there. (I also used a cute little magnetic heart clasp. No fumbling!)

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In a hurry today so just went with sparkly.  I love sparklies.  Anyone else have Secret of Nimh flashbacks when you see that word?

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I have no clue what the rose is carved of! It’s a semi-precious gemstone. It isn’t adventurine. I don’t think it is jade. It’s not jasper. Stumped! But it’s beautiful! And I got to playing with the different colored nylon-coated tiger tail which was fun.

I also got an order for my new design in black, so I thought I’d throw them up here. I had to make 3 of them because the first two were not a match. I guess I should make another to keep the odd one company.

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Today I made a mess.
Actually, today is the day I took pictures of the mess. This is just what has happened over the past few days of creation…and will happen again. It’s like an artist and palette. Clean means nothing is happening.

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Okay. These TOTALLY took me waaaaaay longer than the time limit, but for some reason I kept wanting to do hearts for Lisa. I started with the awesome Swarovski crystal drops and kept working and reworking wire designs that kept turning into hearts. As a result, the second earring (usually the harder of the pair to do because of the whole trying to replicate thing) was the easier one of the two. Go figure! One looks longer than the other, but that’s actually due to the fixture I hooked the earrings on being not completely parallel to the ground.

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Today I made a pair of blue earrings for Anita as thanks for her huge list of etsy name suggestions that absolutely cracked me up (as Anita usually does). These may end up being too long for her which is why I took a pic of them hanging from an actual (aka: my) ear. The silver circles I got from a chain that I cut up, and I am rather pleased with the amount of gold flecks in these faceted lapis briolettes. Enjoy!

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I had a pseudo-contest on Facebook to help me name my (still unnamed) etsy site. I decided to make earring for more than one submitter since I had so much fun reading them. These are for Candy, who has been harassing me (which I actually appreciate). Hope she likes them! All I had was color guidelines. “Olivey n army greens”. Bloodstone, believe it or not, fits the bill, despite its name. The hardest part is the second (what? it needs to match?) one.

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