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posted by Colleen Shirazi,
May 19, 2007
at 10:50 PM (Pacific)
Had to make some jewelry on the fly today. I already had my multi-strand freshwater pearl necklace (in the Handmade Jewelry gallery linked to at the bottom of this post). It's a good piece, dramatic without being over the top, but I had only a few pearl earrings to choose from (I know how ridiculous that sounds...and I had to choose which limousine to ride in too, my life is such a tragedy).
But given that I have pearls from here and there, I decided to go with a simple pair of coin pearl earrings. (I'll take pics tomorrow, promise.) It was at this point (I wasn't rushing, had a couple of hours to come up with earrings and a bracelet) that it occurred to me that finally, after toiling since the latter half of 2005, I was now at that magical point at which you can make a piece of jewelry without reinventing the wheel.
That's been my big, albeit lazy, dream since the beginning. I wanted to develop my own "templates" for pieces. Didn't want to use anyone else's templates...nothing personal, just wanted to develop my own.
So, for the earrings, I went with this design:
Just plugged in a coin pearl instead of American turquoise.
For the bracelet, I went with an existing design also...I don't have a pic of the original, since I'm still fiddling around with it. But it is a two-strand bracelet, one strand made of coin pearls, the other corn pearls.Labels: beading notes
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