Our Hopeful Home: dangle earrings

May 2, 2010

Okay, so I'm not a big fan of dangle earrings.......I'm the conservative pearls and/or diamond stud type of earring wearer. I've always been happy with that since I think they look best on me. But I do know that there's a whole big world out there who likes and wears dangle earrings. So, in their honor, I made another pair of dangles.

They're pink pearls and fuchsia flowers. Delicate and romantic. And dangly. Not for me but I know they're for You!:0) Time to run over and put them in my Etsy shop! Hope you all had a GREAT weekend! TTFN

"If I can stop one heart

from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain."

~Emily Dickinson

April 5, 2010

And yet ANOTHER Sundance catalog-inspired creation! Honestly, I can’t help myself. I see it, I want it and I try to recreate it. Hence my Boho Nights dangle earrings. (And it didn’t hurt that I already had the hammered brass coins that make the earrings, well, the earrings :0).

Here’s Sundance’s “Fragment Earrings:”

And here’s my Boho Nights Dangle Earrings:

I improvised and used two bead dangles (one pearl, one glass) versus their three gem dangles, and silver earwires versus their gold, but otherwise I think I got the same effect, no? The earrings are approximately 1 ½” long and sparkle beautifully in the sunlight!

I hope everyone had a happy and joyous Easter! Me and mine, well, we awoke to Easter baskets and an egg hunt filled with surprises. Church followed, and the girls sang in the choir which made it even more special :). So after spring break and Easter holiday, it looks like it’s back to the real word. For now, anyway. TTFN