The little pearls go flying everywhere.

Some more earrings that I made last week:










I made the simple amber drop earrings to practice attaching beads with wrapped loops. The silver coin pearl earrings are accented with clear round faceted crystals (AB crystals looked weird); I'm still not happy with the accent beads but I can't think of anything else that would look better and could still be threaded on 22 gauge wire. The chunky amethyst earrings are accented with wee bits of fluorite - they are deliberately slightly mismatched because I think that it adds character. And also because I couldn't find any other streaky lavender fluorite bits on my strand.


I've been also trying to create earrings that contain garnets with pearls in orbit:








The problem is that I prefer to have pearls (or any bead, for that matter) threaded separately rather than strung together in a row, so this leads to too many wire loops and spacing problems. I'll take these apart and try again next week.