Flower blossom earrings.
There are six beads on each earrings, working together to make up such a fantastic little flower bloom. If I was not happy with the end result wire wrapping, I would have covered the wrap with a crimp bead cover (incredibly versatile for times such as these).
Look carefully at the next picture, because you can see how a wire wrapped link was used to attach and lower the set of beads containing the leaves. This gives the earrings an extra dimension of beading, placing the leaves naturally below the blossom where they would fall on a plant.
It is not a hard link to make, as long as you can wrap a briolette stone. You are just making one end with a loop, then switching ends and putting the rest of the wire on your pliers to finish the entire link. You can look at the wire on the green leaf and see what basically is the same wire wrap. It is just that to make the link, you do not include the bead - it is all wire.
This is a different set of earrings than I usually show, just because briolette stones have become so incredibly popular that everyone is searching and wants to see how to make them. This set of earrings utilizes the same wire wrap tricks and talents, but you end up with an adorable set of flower blossoms.
The wire wrapping part of these earrings is not difficult, but only gives the appearance of being intimidating. The nice thing about wire is that you can unwrap it and re-wrap it a million times until you get it right or until you get it to the point where you are happy.
And this gives me the opportunity to use up some of those flower shaped beads I have been collecting. I find them so cute, but until now couldn’t find the right vehicle in which to display their charms. Well, now we know.
I have a handful of miracle gardeners in the family; those types that can grow something from nothing. Honestly, they could make a garden grow in Death Valley. Well, this type of earring set would be perfect for her (not to say that men aren’t gardeners, but I am pretty sure most of the he man gardeners out there would prefer not to receive earrings for gifts).
Do you have miracle gardeners in your friends and family group too? Or maybe someone that would like to be a crackpot gardener but just doesn’t have the time, money, skill and most important place to grow them? Then maybe making pair of earrings (and a matching pendant) like this would lift her spirits and give her a special bloom to carry around with her always.
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