{"id":5,"date":"2008-04-14T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sassydlite.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/04\/14\/custom-earwires-cool-finishing-touches\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T04:56:00","slug":"custom-earwires-cool-finishing-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sassydlite\/2008\/04\/14\/custom-earwires-cool-finishing-touches\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom earwires – cool finishing touches"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a few trials, I came up with this idea. It’s a sterling silver hand knotted $\"Teal$ <\/a>earwire supporting yummy aqua apatite faceted onions and a tiny sky blue topaz. The sterling silver wire (22 gauge) was wrapped tightly to form <\/a> this knot. The final product was oxidized (I use liver of sulphur) and then I like to polish the relief for effect.<\/p>\n

Shown below is another style of the knotted earwire. That’s summery lemon chalcedony with apatite. Now these are 2 very fun and flirty examples of the hand knotted earwire in application, but the same styles will work well on my luxe earrings.<\/p>\n

Last week for example, I gave birth to the Earth and Sky Chandeliers – an ornately wire wrapped luxe earring with over 45 carats of gorgeous gemstones. For that design, I wa $\"Earth$ <\/a>s truly in need of an appropriate sterling earwire. I settled for a stock bali sterling silver french hook that isn’t totally in keeping with the feel of this piece.<\/p>\n

Anyhow I am pleased with how the Earth and Sky Chandeliers turned out. They’re currently listed on my flagship shoppe called http:\/\/www.gahooletree.etsy.com\/<\/a> and this creation has caught the attention of enough readers that I was featured on Talent Database the other day as an emerging designer! Whoopee!!!<\/p>\n

I’m enjoying the opportunity to showcase my work online. These blogs, online shoppes and websites are a wonderful record of my work, my online portfolio as it were. And it’s becoming an important part of my creative process to document my accomplishments and progress in this regard.<\/p>\n

$\"Summery$ <\/a>The coolest part of this earwire development process is that I can now expand upon this base and create more styles. And perhaps this ‘need’ to develop high end findings will force me to get out the torch.<\/p>\n

But before I get to that I suppose I need to reorganize my workspace and create a true soldering and metalworking bench area. And before I do that, I absolutely must clean up my studio. Things here have gotten way too crowded and disorganized \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"