I have so much to be thankful for - this season and all year long...
...including the good fortune to have gotten to know some wonderful lapidary artists that I can call on for custom stone orders. Recently, I ordered a big batch of turquoise from my friends the Allens, and along with the gorgeous cabochons and earring pairs, there was a string of turquoise beads.
I started thinking about what I might be able to do with them...and it occurred to me that they would make great earrings.
I had just finished a second batch of hammered bar earrings with turquoise cabochons, and started thinking about pairing the beads with hammered silver as well.
Furthermore, when I cut the backplates for my pendants, I always end up with pieces of rectangular scrap silver that are almost always too small to use, except maybe for a really small stone or a bail.
So I thought I'd play around with those small pieces and the beads.I started with long bars - a variation on the theme of my hammered earrings with cabochons. When I had used up all the larger scrap, I cut some small (half inch on a side) squares and decided to see how those looked...
I was surprised how much I liked the diamond shape...so I hammer textured and cut up all the scrap I had left to make a few more pairs. They are available in the Etsy shop.
I'm so pleased with this "happy accident" design that I'm considering some other stones - because I will certainly have more scrap silver. So watch this space - because there's sure to be more to come.
Until next time.
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