Renovations
Posted March 3, 2014
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Had the opportunity to renovate some earrings recently. Always an interesting process that can lead you down all sorts of unexpected paths.
Started out with jade beads in a setting not suited to my customer’s tastes. She wanted the hooks changed to studs, said she didn’t mind a bit of a dangle and pretty much left the rest up to me.
After trying out a few variations, I settled on warm copper tempered with blackened sterling silver to highlight the cool green of the jade. Yum!
Then, inspired by Celtic chain mail patterns I created my own pattern specifically designed to balance and link the beads to the studs. The final outcome references the filigree in the original bead setting – still ornate but a much stronger design. Voila!
All those floating orbs of course reminded me of the night sky and I saw a new addition to my constellation collection.
Hello, Orb Chain Earrings!!
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