This month I’m playing along with the Art Elements‘ monthly challenge blog hop. January’s challenge was to create jewelry using components in our own stash. All of us have accumulated sooooo many beads. I know that my beading table has mounds of beads on it.
With the New Year beginning, it would be nice to clean this mess up and work on reducing my stash and putting it to good use in some finished jewelry! To that end, here’s what I have made so far.
Several years ago, I helped Genea Civello teach her first class at Bead Fest in Philadelphia. She taught several projects using Wooly Wire in combination with her gorgeous lampwork glass. As reimbursement for my assistance, I got to choose a number of her lampwork beads, including the pair I used in these earrings. The copper headpins are by Handmade by JGL.
I used some head pins from my stash to make the next pair of earrings. I’m not certain whose heads pins these are. Maybe Havana Beads, but I can’t say for sure. These earrings are now living in Oaxaca, Mexico, with a friend of ours who is an anthropologist there.
I made the following pair for my monthly blog post on Earrings Everyday. They feature lampwork by Paradise Beads and OutWest Glass that I’ve had in my stash forever. Jenelle and Daniel (of Paradise Beads) used to live in the same town I do. The little orange beads date way back to that time. They’ve lived in Todos Santos, Mexico for at least 3-4 years now, so that’s how long those beads have hung out in my stash!
Admittedly, this final pair of earrings only partially fits into this challenge. The polymer clay components by Heather Powers of Humble Beads are brand new, but the beads I stacked above them have all hung out in my stash for a long time.
So there you have it – a month’s worth of stash reduction. I have so much more stash to work through. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it….
This is a blog hop, so check out all these other stash reducing bead stars!
Guests:
Kelly Rodgers
Sarajo Wentling
Samantha Wescott
Kathy Lindemer
Patty Miller
Linda Landig
Renetha Stanziano
Art Elements:
Jenny Davies-Reazor
Jen Cameron
Claire Fabian
Sue Kennedy
Niky Sayers
Lindsay Starr
Linda Landig Jewelry
These are all great earrings. I love the colors, designs, and components. I especially like your copper work.
Thank you Kathy!
Hey Linda! I love all these earrings! The lampwork on the 3rd pair is so YUMMY! They really needed to come out of hiding. The last pair is perfect for getting over the january blahs. Thanks for participating in the challenge this month!
Thanks Jen. I’m glad I could join up. Thanks for the motivation to dig into my oversized stash!
Good start Linda! Great earrings, love those headpins!
Thanks Susan!
Everything is super cute Linda, but that blue pair with the lampwork drop headpins…OMG! I’m in love with them!
Thanks so much Diana!
You made some fabulous earrings, Linda! Good job digging WAY back for some of your beads. 🙂
Your earrings are wonderful! I love the accents with the wire swirls you made, it adds to create the shape wonderfully and my personal favorite is the third pair, the matte colours are gorgeous!
These are all so cool Linda but oh my I love those outwest ones and I don’t even like the colour orange but these really make me smile!
Excellent! And you were prolific, yourself… I love hearing where the beads live now… And a girl can never have too many earrings!
Oh, your little headpin squiggles are so perfect! I love all your earrings and those color combos are darling. Well done!
Fantastic Linda, thanks for playing with us! I really love the color contrast in the flower pair. Your friend is lucky!
Love all these earrings! Those great curvy headpins are fun!
Gorgeous designs Linda, especially the third pair, the orange, copper and purple/blue are stunning together!
Now I have some of that woolley wire so that workshop would have been brilliant for me as I am at a bit of a loss to know what to do with it. Love your ear rings 😀
Laney- Here’s a Pinterest board with lots of WoolyWire ideas, including quite a few things I’ve made with it. https://pin.it/6vtgrghlergbuw
Gorgeous work! I particularly love how the copper went so well and those little squiggly headpins are devine with the art beads!