"Alive" - Earrings

  

Sometimes I am struggling to come up with a name for my pieces. Or rather the right name... a name that somehow reflects the impression and feelings I have seeing the piece. There are pieces that don't have their own name because they just don't have their own story or they just don't speak to me. But here it was different. I love the earrings. I just love them! They have such a fresh, lush, natural feeling to them...

...the best I can describe it is the fragrance of a wood. Just this moment, in summertime, shortly after a rain when the sun comes out again, and you smell the earth, the plants, the flowers, the grass... You take a deep breath, getting it all inside of you even if you seem to be too small to hold this powerful feeling. 

The moment where everything is okay, where you are just here and now, where the world around us, nature shows it's most beautiful and yet so powerful side. 

Alive.

The lampwork beads are made by Sue Reynolds and the tinnes headpins by Sasha Crow. I have listed the earrings in my shop here.

"Remembrance" - Earrings

The little headpins remind me of flower petals, the subtle translucent colour like the first blush of roses in spring. The vine leaves wrapping around the purple and blue lampwork beads strengthen this image in my mind. 

 The dark oxidated metal sets a beautiful contrast to the colour.

The lampworkbeads are made by Sue Reynolds and the headpins by Sasha Crow. Seeing them together, they just seemed to be made for each other. The earrings move beautifully!

They are all in all surprisingly romantic for me, a kind of dark romantic, but still, who would have thought that this part can also be found inside of me? ;)

I have listed them in my etsy shop here.

"Deep within" - There is an inner glow...

There is something magical in these beads. They seem to glow from deep within. Every time the light falls through the glass the colours seem to change, to move and to glow. The lampwork glass beads are from Sue Reynolds.

I chose a really dark patina this time to act light a dark background for the glowing colours, to enhance them. All the wire and ear wires are copper oxidized with liver of sulphur.

The lovely dangles add movement and I love the organic touch with the tin on top of them. They also seem to glow. You may already know most of the people I am buying lampwork beads from, these headpins are from my first order from Sasha Crow. 

I really have to look at these earring again and again. "Deep within" describes my feeling seeing them and trying to capture their magic.

You can find them in my shop here.