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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: More earrings
More earrings
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
December 27, 2005
at 10:57 AM (Pacific)
I've gotten more into making earrings. Why is that, well there are the obvious factors...you can never have too many pairs of earrings. Right? And good earrings tend to be expensive.
There are other economical factors. Making earrings makes use of those odd beads you have...you need only two, or four, or six, of any bead to make a reasonably spectacular pair. You can do it with only wires and beads.
All of that said, I have some designs in mind that I can't make yet, because those would require special findings. The one place I saw a lot of these...sterling silver earring parts...was in San Francisco.
As far as the ear wires, really, I've got nothing. I can't find any place locally that sells what I'm looking for at the price I want, and I'm not willing to pay the Simply Whispers price--it's $6 for french wires--when I can get the silver-colored niobium ones locally for $2.25. As far as gold-colored ones...if I get desperate enough, I can still buy "lifetime guarantee" earrings at Longs Drugs for $5/pair and take them apart. grumbles....
I'll have a pic of my latest earrings soon; I'd like to wear them first. I made them yesterday out of rose quartz and pink glass flowers.
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