Dawanda's Christmas Market

Dawanda have opened their Christmas market this week and it runs for the month of November.

They feature lots of gift ideas for all the people in your life.

And once a day they have a raffle to win a Dawanda product, for anyone who creates a wishlist and sends it to a friend.

I was asked to include an item for the raffle, so one day this month you can win a pair of "The earth laughs in flowers" ear thread earrings I've made.

I won't tell you which day they are up as a prize - so you'll have to go back and keep checking.  Actually I don't know what day it is so I can't tell you!!!  :-D

It looks like there are some great prizes so worth checking it out.  Happy Christmas shopping!

Bright flowers

I made the silver part of these flower earrings a few years ago and a necklace too - shortly after starting with metal clay.  At that time I inlaid colored resin for the petals and stem.

I saw the earrings hanging up this morning and decided they needed freshening up!  So I decided to take out the resin and use some color anodized aluminum to provide the color instead.

What do you think?

The color "pops" so much now. I can see this style working with lots of different designs........ I already have a few ideas - including another old pair of earrings that I can "freshen"!

Flower earthread earrings

After doing the wedding flower set, I thought it was time to do some flower ear threads. You know my love of ear-threads - and I know how many people don't like even the thought of them - but as pretty little flowers dangling from your ears...I just think they are sweet.


But I have to tell you, hand sculpting a pair of earrings is not easy. To try and get them the same size, never mind the same shape is a real challenge. These worked out pretty similar actually...obviously a little luck was on my side.


The other challenge I have is how to photograph ear thread earrings. As with most of my earrings, because they are three dimensional, they don't show well lying flat on a solid surface and look much better hanging. I sort of get around that with ear wires and posts by hanging them on silver wire - but that doesn't work with ear threads.


The tricky part is: 1. I want to show how ear threads "work" as not everyone is familiar with them; 2. I want to show the optional rubber stopper to keep it in the ear; and 3. I hate the idea of showing earrings on live models as then people will think they will have been in someone else's ears!

So if anyone reading this has successfully photographed ear threads, I'd love to hear how. I've tried looking at other people's photos but .......


Anyhow - hope you like the pretty flowers. Happy weekend!