Completing the Collections - Earrings

Flamenco Earrings
These have really got me brainstorming! I'll be working up something this week. Just have to get through the presentation to the Boutique! Next

Pegasus Earrings - pierced ears

Urban Urchins - Graffiti earrings

 



Pegasus Earrings - clip-ons

Final Take - The Pegasus Necklace

The Pegasus Necklace



In reassembling the necklace with black agate beads and brass spacers between the polymer elements, I feel it looks more dressy this way. I do the final sanding and buffing, keeping the high gloss for the Burlesque Blend accents and leaving a fairly matte surface for the black areas. The contrast between matte and shine, between flat and glitter, between dark and light, between solid and pattern pleases me.  

The beads look fairly substantial but the work in making them "hollow" keeps the necklace from being heavy, so the time and effort to assemble the beads with internal support but no solid core was worth it.

The Pegasus Necklace

The beads are done and now the final decisions involve the assembly. I've strung the beads on brass coated cable, but feel the cable looks too frail next to the overall look so I'll use softglass cord to go from the end beads to the brass hook-and-eye clasp. The decision involves the spacers. I've used leftover clay to make clay discs. I need a small black agate round bead to push the spacers away from the central bead. I'll restring the whole piece using a "slicker" alternative - brass spacers with a larger black agate bead in between - to see which one conveys the artistic "feel" I'm looking for. Here is the first alternative assembly:

The Pegasus Necklace