Beading Daily January Earring Challenge Weeks 1 - 3

Hi Y'all,
I have been keeping myself busy by doing all of the challenges I signed up for this month.  One of the challenges I signed up for was the Beading Daily January Earring Challenge.  All one has to do is make one pair of earrings a day for the month of January, easy right!  Well I thought okay I can do this, how difficult can it be to make one pair of earrings a day? Um yeah well not so easy, because of all the other beading projects I have going on at one time.  I commend those of you that can crank these beading projects out with no problem, well if you have problems you hide it well.  I have to send a compliment to Salla of blog by salla she is doing this challenge and has manage to make a pair a day and they are all so very pretty.

Okay, okay enough jabbering here are my earrings so far...

Week 1

1. Compass Rose - Linda Goodman - Beadwork Favorite Bead Stitches

2.  Crystallized Medici Drop - Marcia DeCoster's blog

3.  Floral Chandelier - Teresa Meister

4.  Red Polka Dots - my design

5.  Ruffled Beaded Bead Caps - Melinda Barta June/July Beadwork 2009

6.  Washer design - Tamara Alison Vanishing Pearl 

7.  Mosaic Medallions - Lisa Stahl Bead and Button web site

Week 2

1.  Hexatious Earrings - Callie Mitchell The Peregrine Beader

2.  Clay beads made by Alison Sachs Beads by Earthtones

3.  Glass flower beads given to me by my Secret Santa Marla Gibbons Spice Box Designs 

4.  Bronze rectangle dangles made by Lesley Watts The Gossiping Goddess (who by the way is having a giveaway to celebrate her 100th sale in her Etsy shop. Go check it out) paired with pink died jasper.

5.  Tiger's eye hearts

6.  Peace sign Peacock feather earrings

7.  Peace sign earrings

Week 3

1.  Polymer clay beads made by Pat Haight  (a bead soup partner)

2.  Pewter sun charms

3.  Black Polka Dot glass 

4.  Ceramic earring charms by Marsh Neal

5.  Ceramic earring charms by Marsh Neal

6.  Blue Botswana glass beads given to me by Pat Haight paired with bronze charms made by Lesley Watts (by the way she is having a giveaway on her blog, you really need to go check it out)

7.  Ravishing Rosettes - Smadar Grossman Bead & Button Dec. 2011 

Here is a cuff that I did for Kinga Nichols blog challenge Illuminated by Candlelight.

I enjoy Kinga's challenges they are helping me improve my bead embroidery.  For this cuff I used a rectangle Quartz for the candle and two black gold stone cabs for the objects being illuminated and the 4mm glass pearls represent the light of the candle.  The candle stand are the gold bugle beads and the flame of the candle are the orange Czech fire polished crystals.   I am not pleased with the clasp and will be changing it soon to a slide clasp.

Oh and in case you missed it earlier in my post Lesley Watts is having a giveaway for her 100th sale in her Etsy shop please go by her blog and check it out.  The Gossiping Goddess - Magic Number Giveaway 

Happy beading Y'all

Therese