More Sparkle

I forgot to include this pair of earrings with the last pictures of earrings that I recently made. This pair says “Spring Time” don’t you think? I love the combination of green and purple and these earrings are fun to wear, I especially like the movement of the dangling crystal at the end.

Earlier this month Eric took the kids to Richmond and I had a free day all to myself. Joy! I remembered that the bead store was having a wire earring class, so I made a mad dash out the door and hoped that I would make it to the store in time to take the class. With only seconds to spare before the class start time, I ran into the store, breathlessly asked if I could still take the wire earrings class. The store owner tried to stifle her giggles, and informed me that particular class was scheduled for the following Saturday. Unbelievable. LOL with me.

Since I was already at the store, why waste the trip when there were lots of beautiful beads in all colors, sizes and shapes just calling my name PLUS there was a enormous amount of dichroic (pronounced dye-crow-ick) beads for sale in the store that day. I was drawn to the dichroic display, so many to choose from, I narrowed my selection down to these three pendants.

It is hard to tell from the picture but the small pendant on the left has shimmers of pink, green and black, the one on the right features green, blue and black. The larger pendant has red, blue, pink, green and purple. Not sure if I will hang the pendants from a stand of beads or use a chain or perhaps a combination of the two. Oh, I should mention that I did go ahead and sign up for the upcoming wire earring class! 

Here is little information about dichroic beads:

Dichroic is a glasswork technique, either blown glass, fused glass or glass beads, which contains many small layers of metal oxides which give the glass its luminous multi-color and 3-dimentional look. The word comes from the Greek Di for two and Chroma for color, as often the dichroic technique is viewed at different angles which gives the appearance of two or more colors. Pretty neat huh!