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And here we are, arrived at the last day of Art Every Day Month for another year.  It has been, as always, grand, not only in pushing me to create create create, but also in the old and new friends I find here every year.  So many thanks and kudos to Leah Piken Kolidas of Creative Every Day who holds the space for this community.  You are amazing, Leah!

I’m going out with a bang.

I spend the morning taking another class with Tricia Hall (who keeps The Bead Boutique going in her home as opposed to a retail shop these days).  Not only did I take a new class and make these awesome silver “Kinetic Earrings” (so named because the cross bars move), but also I made two more sets of earrings from the class I took about 2 weeks ago.  This time I left them shined silver instead of antiquing them.  I love them both ways).

Start by soldering two silver rings. Put them on a ring mandrel and tap down to about 7.
make the circle into an oblong

Hammer the ends flat, then put that onto an anvil and hammer the sides flat.
insert wires with one end balled, then fire the other ends into balls.
Finished earrings without color addes to make the design stand out. Today’s mast head picture shows the final earrings

 

2 more sets of earrings – different longest length – one as long as last week, one shorter. Had MUCH more success with making the “flowers” today – hardly any bad ones. 🙂

4 Comments

  • Rita – I will be playing with them the whole time I’m wearing them!

    Meg – they were fast. Tricia even said it took way less time than she expected.

    Jackie – will send you the how

  • Those are so groovy, and you seem to have built them quite fast! A lovely end to AEDM! M x o

  • What fun earrings! I’d be playing with them the whole time I was wearing them–LOL! 🙂

  • These are SO gorgeous! I’m envious and so I’ll have to try my own version. Love, Love, LOVE them – nice tutorial!

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