Headpins

I made a little batch of headpins this week. My propane was running low and that affects any stringerwork or surface design and makes it go a bit feathery so I made a couple of fancy headpins until the feathery thing started happening and then I switched to plainer ones until the gas ran out.

Yesterday I turned the headpins into a pendant and some earrings.

The pendant was made with the fancier headpin which has a petal-like design on it:

Then there are these lavender earrings:

I love the way the CiM Wisteria reacted with the Effetre Lavender Blue 247 to create that purple band.

The other three earring pairs are made with headpins and globes of glass that are one third Effetre Light Turquoise 232 and two thirds CiM Fjord Milky. Again, the two glasses reacted with one another, making the turquoise go all mottled and cloudy. I kept one pair really simple and hung them from flower earwires...

...and I paired the other ones with copper findings and hypoallergenic niobium earwires.

The remaining pair aren't really headpins at all - no pins, so just... heads? I attached some sterling loops to these and dangled them from sterling drop shapes. These earrings are really light and swishy.

All of these are in my shop at the time of typing.

I still haven't been able to track down the winner of the prize draw so Tina G, if on the off-chance you're reading this, please contact me so I can get your beads to you. If I've not heard back from you by the end of November I'm going to do the draw again.