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Golden filigree flowers and faceted glass teardrops

A lot of times I just work with faceted glass stones – but I found these gorgeous golden brass filigree flowers a while back (I’ve featured them a time or two I think!) and I just had to play with them again. This time I added glass pears in olivine green – somehow that seemed especially Spring-like. Hey, it’s really cold outside – I mean, this is January – and Spring just sounds inviting!

Of course this concept would work with other color teardrops – or shapes, for that matter. Think about it, this would be great with small round stones, or ovals, or – well check out various different stones in my shop and play with ideas that work for you!

I’ve said it before but really it deserves to be mentioned: making your own beautiful jewelry – for gifts, for sale, or for yourself – doesn’t have to be difficult. Or expensive. And remember to have fun with it!

Sparkling neutral glass gem earrings

I just wanted you to see that neutral glass gems make wonderful earrings too! Now I know this is not News, but last blog entery I was talking about bright rich colors, which are great of course. But neutral is also very cool! And this is a good excuse to show off how well these two shapes work together:

The crystal clear ovals here are 18mm x 13mm, that’s approximately 3/4″ x 1/2″. The diagonal square or diamond shape black diamond (gray) stones are 10mm x 10mm, or about 3/8″. Link them with jump rings as shown here, and you’ve got a terrific pair of earrings – or pendant. They’re big enough to be bold but not heavy and that matters, yknow? And of course you can adapt this idea – just search my shop for the colors that work best for you.

But honestly, gray and crystal clear? These look good year round, on every skin tone, and they go with pretty much everything. This really works!

(Oh – the mannequin I use for these pics is pretty close to life size, so you can get a pretty good idea of the scale of these stones. Just saying!)

Amethyst purple and vivid red glass stones

The jewels shown in this pic are just an example of how rich color can carry a simple design. As shown here, this design would totally work as earrings, of course. But make one rather than two – and you have a dangling pendant 🙂

And really the idea I love right now is that rich color is always in style! Of course you’ll choose your favorites – or raid your own worktable for special colors. But do remember that you can search for just the colors you want in my shop – and you don’t have to spend a lot of money! So – make jewelry that you love, that looks great, and start the new year off with rich color!