Young Mermaids in Love

Young Mermaids in Love

These earrings make me think of naiads and mermaids! I gathered up some water colors--a little viridian, a little glacier green, a little teal--and bound them together in silver and brass (plus a little sparkle of AB rhinestones.)

If these two star-crossed lovers ever overcame their worldly forms and tied the knot--and I was the lady's stylist and she was thinking casual backyard wedding, maybe potluck--I might suggest these for an understated, but romantic look. This picture makes me sad (such yearning, but so impossible!):

The Mermaid, by Howard Pyle (1910)

I like to think they got together, somehow, in the end.

Pale green recycled glass beads and teal seed beads via Afrobeadia

AB rhinestone rondelles with black finish, Stinky Dog Beads

Czech glass dotted ovals from ArteBellaSurplus

Stamped brass rings and sterling beadcaps by me!

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Poseidon's Garden

Poseidon's Garden

These colors remind me of Caribbean waters.

View of Caribbean Ocean from Bodden Town, Grand Cayman Island,
Courtesy Wikipedia Creative Commons

For these earrings, I started with a pair of my copper tulip caps, and gave them an aged blue-green patina. They made me think of blooms from a deep-sea garden! I chose gemstones in the same hues--I just love the way this aqua chalcedony glows, and the sea green aventurine nuggets match the patina on my tulip caps so perfectly. I dotted the earwires with Czech glass in a matching aquamarine blue.

I would pair them with a gown worthy of Amphitrite (especially if she was guest-starring on Downton Abbey--this dress is so Lady Sybil):

Amphitrite by lunebijoux featuring a chiffon dress

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Autumn in Verdigris

Autumn in Verdigris

There's just a hint of autumn color in these earrings--splashes of persimmon, saffron and loden (I saw that last one in an Esprit catalog back in the 80s, sounds so much more poetic than "olive green")--and lots of my favorite sea green color. Czech glass birch leaves from ArteBellaSurplus, saffron patinated copper rings from MissFickleMedia, and recycled glass beads in sea green from Happy Mango Beads. The beads on the earwires are moukaite but I can't remember where I got them.

I of course picture these with a Sundance Catalog ensemble (someday when I'm too rich to care about paying ridiculously overblown prices I'm gonna clean 'em out):

But in the meantime I guess I'll go to Target.

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Glacier Green

Glacier Milk

This color of green is exactly the color of "glacial milk"--that milky, opaque pale jade green of a high glacial lake.  In fact, it reminds me of Grinnell Lake in Glacier National Park.  I wish I could post a picture of it here! But I don't have any of my own. You'll have to check the link above! HERE is another view. It really does look this opaque and green in person!

These earrings feature all sterling silver construction, recycled glass from Happy Mango Beads in old-fashioned Coke-bottle sea green, and little 4mm faceted Czech rounds in "prairie green."

I picture these with a fun, clean-lined summer ensemble made for beachside shopping:

Via Polyvore

(Aquamarine and aqua quartz bracelet from Cathy Danz.)

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Hopeful Mermaid Love

Mermaid Love

The beads in these earrings make me think of clear green seawater and frothy sea foam, and there's something mysterious and wistful about those little heart padlocks--perhaps from a sunken treasure chest, with a lonely mermaid's trousseau inside? Even the beadcaps make me think of seaweed....Maybe these would be put aside for a mermaid's wedding day.

Of course I picture them with a mermaid-y sea green gown,

Gown by Jack Guisso, from Dolce magazine

 and a mermaid headdress. 

By Thyme2Dream on ArtFire

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