Summer Earrings

It's more butterflies and blue sky!

Celebrating the season with earrings.

This one has Venetian glass beads and Niobium earwires from Artbeads.com.

Bright orange enamelled butterflies from Gardannebeads.

Have a great weekend!

Celebrating the Arrival of Summer!

It's the beginning of Summer!
It's is hot down here in Florida!
There are some 400 wild fires raging in the State, but nothing like the ones out west in Arizona.
Where are the hurricanes when you need them?
But its a case of being careful what you wish for...

So I am thinking some cool thoughts, light and breezey thoughts, pretty pink thoughts...

Yes, I Know It's Not July! But It Is Calder Inspired!

It's better late than never!

As many of you know the Art Bead Scene Challenge for July was based on this painting 'Blue Feather' by Alexander Calder. This was to be my entry! But I had problems with my photography system and could not get these pictures done last month. For now, it seems my problems are temporarily solved and I was finally able to get some pictures taken of the jewelry I made in the last many weeks. 

The Calder painting inspired these earrings, and I was going for the three dimensional mobile effect. I used Swarovski 'Mystic Black' pearls, each pair larger than the next, with the single orange Carnelian rondelle. Each bead is wire-wrapped so that it rotates independent of the others. The earrings are lightweight, but long.

I think it captures the spirit of the painting, don't you?

For my Art Bead I chose a pair of blue enameled butterflies from Anne of GardanneBeads.

I would love to hear what you think of my interpretation of the painting.


Have a great week!