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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: Ear wires and yadda yadda
Ear wires and yadda yadda
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
November 8, 2005
at 10:57 AM (Pacific)
Mmmm...I checked the price for the niobium wires again. It's $2.50 per pair for traditional-looking, silver-colored, ball and spring french wires. It's $1.25 per pair for colored niobium wires...these consist of a single wire bent into the french wire shape, colored magenta, green, blue, or turquoise I think...
Now, if you could not wear any other type of wire, it would be well worth it to pay $2.50 per pair, but I haven't given up the notion of finding the same surgical steel or 24 KT gold over surgical steel, wires that Longs Drugs used to carry. It seems to me you'd get at least two pairs for that price, and I can wear them all day, day after day, without irritation.
I was googling around to check out other beading blogs. lol! Someone was complaining she'd been shanghai'd into a "beading party"...apparently there are such things. I can admit it's a bit hard to imagine doing this sort of thing in a party setting. To me somehow it is very personal. I suppose it makes more sense if you think of it purely as a business, but I don't. My plan is to make jewelry for my daughter and myself first. It has to work first as personal jewelry.
Lessee...I have some finished pieces now, they go into the trial phase. There are two turquoise necklaces, one green glass piece (it's hard to test this out because it's choker length, and I've been living in sweaters lately), the long deep red and blue grey necklace, two blue and gold pieces...a couple of bracelets for my daughter, some earrings.
Today I would like to find those ear wires so I can make more earrings. My son designed a pair...it'll sound almost silly (he's eight years old) but he's coming up with some good stuff. Men design differently than women do, just as they buy different jewelry for women, than women buy for themselves. Men's jewelry designs for women, imo, are bolder. They show more. I suppose he's less interested in fashion (which is something he's inclined to laugh at) and more interested in color. To the kids this is a form of coloring and drawing...they spend as much time playing with the beads as doing anything with them.
I have been wearing the two pairs of earrings I did have wires for. Stupendous! If you check back on my jewelry searching days (chronicled in the Lipstick Page Forums Fashion Blog), you will see that I never did find that mythical pair of green earrings. It's easy enough though to make them.
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