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One project before Christmas was to make these earrings. I didn’t get to photograph them as a set before I made the last pair, with the vitrail light Swarovski square, so I subbed in my pair at the bottom. For the gift set, I used a light blue s/l, which really shifted the Swarovski to the blue; I like seeing how colors can shift because of adjacent colors.

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The B&B email I recently received, advertising the current volume of the “Best of” projects, included my earring project!  Here’s the “click here” link from the email, listed in small print at the top “if you have problems seeing the graphics.”  Or in my case, want to share them.  Cool!

A bigger picture of the earrings can be seen in my last post.  The very same ones!

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On the Buy The Kit pattern page, I have two more instruction sets available.  One is Grommets Galore:

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And the other is Simple Solutions:

simple-solutions-dlSelect my name from the BTK pattern page – each is $4.

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I got my complimentary copy in the mail today.  Bead & Button picked the “best projects from a year of Bead & Button magazine,” and chose my earrings project (that opened this blog!) as a project to include.  So, if you look at or buy Creative Beading Volume 4, I’m on page 58.

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I assembled the blue earrings from the beautiful pile of blue French beads in an earlier post.  They are from Jean Campbell and Judith Durant, Beadwork inspired by art : Impressionist.

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It’s a beautiful, full earring, lovely motion and texture.

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I went to a talk by Jean Campbell in February about using art as inspiration for the design process, detailed in this post.  These earrings are inspired by one of the Blue Dancer paintings by Degas – see the ballerina in the full skirt?  I will be using them for something other than earrings as the weight is a bit too much for me.  If I make them again, I will use charlottes and scale down the accent beads that make up the dancer’s body.  The charlottes might make the skirt look more like tulle.

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