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I have made myself a pair of earrings, which I'm now wearing despite not being entirely happy with the results. I think the beads I chose are a little tricky (they're rounded-off squares of malachite, with the holes running at a slant, so it's probably unavoidable that some of the headpin will show); perhaps because of that, the loops at the top aren't smooth.
I think I'm going to go back to stainless steel for the next few earrings. This pair are on sterling silver; in addition to the malachite, they have small beads, a shiny dark gray from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem's "colors of night" Bead of the Month selection.
At the moment, my hair is at a length such that it doesn't much matter what earrings I wear, except to me (because I remember what I put on): it's not long enough to put back easily, and when worn loose it hides my ears, including earlobes and earrings of any size I'm likely to find comfortable.
Addendum: A second pair are in shades of gray, and I suspect may be for someone else, since I used the stainless steel kidney wires that Elise gave me, and I usually prefer the question-mark-shaped wires. Snowflake obsidian beads as the centerpiece, with gray beads that Elise labeled "we don't know" in the pearl BotM, and a tiny dark gray bead also from colors of night. Yes, I have beads I didn't get from Elise, but the only really small ones of those that I can find are Swarovski crystals, which didn't work for this. (I seem to recall buying some seed beads; I don't know where they got to.)
[N.B. I originally posted this to a restricted friends group, having set those permissions in Semagic for a post I wound up not making; I'm editing the time and hoping it'll now be at the top of the page.]
I think I'm going to go back to stainless steel for the next few earrings. This pair are on sterling silver; in addition to the malachite, they have small beads, a shiny dark gray from
elisem's "colors of night" Bead of the Month selection.At the moment, my hair is at a length such that it doesn't much matter what earrings I wear, except to me (because I remember what I put on): it's not long enough to put back easily, and when worn loose it hides my ears, including earlobes and earrings of any size I'm likely to find comfortable.
Addendum: A second pair are in shades of gray, and I suspect may be for someone else, since I used the stainless steel kidney wires that Elise gave me, and I usually prefer the question-mark-shaped wires. Snowflake obsidian beads as the centerpiece, with gray beads that Elise labeled "we don't know" in the pearl BotM, and a tiny dark gray bead also from colors of night. Yes, I have beads I didn't get from Elise, but the only really small ones of those that I can find are Swarovski crystals, which didn't work for this. (I seem to recall buying some seed beads; I don't know where they got to.)
[N.B. I originally posted this to a restricted friends group, having set those permissions in Semagic for a post I wound up not making; I'm editing the time and hoping it'll now be at the top of the page.]
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