Welcome 2020!

Happiest New Year Wishes!

New beginnings, fresh starts!

Cheers!

Stunning ceramic earring charms dripping in gold with rustic clock faces by Lina Macijauskiene.

Festive vintage lucite with captured gold tinsel confetti falling!  Omgosh, I love these!  

Thank you for stopping by and having a look at my worktable!  I'm very much looking forward to sharing 2020 with you, my beady family!  It's always such an honor to be included in this lovely blog.  Thank you all for your thoughts and kind words this past year, it means the world to me.

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Loralee xo

www.loraleekolton.etsy.com 
(although, there isn't much in the shop at the moment - ha - looks like a 2020 goal for me!)

With Open Hands & Hearts We Welcome The New Year!

Welcome, 2019!

I love New Year celebrations, resolutions, and the best intentions it brings.  I love the feeling of hope for the future.  I love the thought of opening yourself to new possibilities.  

Painterly finished, artistic hands by Vincent and Nooma Cav of Inviciti.

Transparent red Czech glass hearts with verdigris sides and faceted vintage crystals from the 30's.

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Wishing us a New Year of hands covered in paint, blackened by the oxidized metal residue and perhaps even some Band-Aids!

Cheers!  Now go get dirty and have the most creative year ever!

Loralee xo

www.loraleekolton.etsy.com

Happy 2017

First post of 2017 here on Earrings Everyday. I hope you all have had a really great seasons period. I have. In fact I've been so busy I have totally missed out on spending time in my studio. So I looked through my own archives from a few years back for something to show you. Here are three pairs that I think are suitable for everyday earrings. Hope you like them too.

Art beads:

Light grey and dotted polymer clay discs - Barbara Bechtel of SecondSurf/Floridity

Other components:

 Seed beads

Wood beads

White facetted glass rondelles

Green coloured coconut heishis

Pale green spacer discs

Copper head pins

Handmade copper earrings hooks 

Ingredients:

Fleur de lis vintaj brass connectors
Stripey glass trade beads
White baroque pearls
Pale blue griffin silk cord
Vintaj brass earrings hooks

Art beads:

Purple-brown swirly patterned polymer clay discs - HumbleBeads

Pink edged raku fired cermic discs - Jubilee

Other components:

Lucite leaves

Waxed linen cord

Brass heishi spacers

Rhinestone rondelles

Bronze facetted rondelles

Copper wire

Seed beads

Handmade oxidized copper earrings hooks

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All my best and wishing you all a really wonderful 2017,
Malin
www.beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com
www.etsy.com/shop/MalindeKoning

Here's to 2015

So, it's fallen to me to wish you a happy new year and share the first pair of earrings of 2015!  How I wish I had a new pair to share with you! I've not made many earrings for a few weeks now and those I have made are for magazine submissions so they're under wraps.  Lacking new earrings, I thought I'd look back, on my blog, to see what earrings I'd made this time last year and share those. To my amazement, I found that the earrings I made a year ago are the first pairs I shared on this blog, which means I've been a contributor for a whole year! I can't believe it!  Since that approach didn't work either, I thought I'd share one of the most - what's the word? - significant(?) pairs of earrings, personally speaking, that I made in the last year.

These earrings were the first thing that I made with my new ceramic beads when I started making them last summer. (The lampwork drops were made by Anne Gardanne.)  Starting to make ceramic beads and getting a kiln were certainly the most significant jewellery-related events of 2014 for me. Perhaps the most significant thing full stop! I love it and I'm looking forward to doing much more of it in 2015.  What have you lined up for 2015? Whatever the year brings you, may it include many, many earrings!

Anyway, once again, let me wish you all a Happy 2015!

Bye for now, Claire

www.somethingtodowithyourhands.com