We're all so very excited to help Amy celebrate her nuptials. Being that I'm the artisan in the family, Amy has asked that I help accessorize her (and the rest of us) for her big day! SO this is the first blog post in a series of projects I'm working on for Amy's wedding. I'll be doing the bride's jewelry, her wedding veil (which I'm so excited about), my mom's jewelry and a few other surprise pieces thrown in there too!
I'm so excited to share these bead embroidered earrings with you. I made these for my mom who's wearing a gorgeous pink chiffon dress. It has some beadwork on the asymmetrical handkerchief hem. She has a necklace I made for her already, but these earrings are the perfect finishing touch to her outfit.
My mom used to have pierced ears, but after years of not wearing earrings (two wonderful grandbabies that would see earrings as fun toys) her earring holes have closed up. So I wanted to make her a pair of clip earrings that didn't look like traditional clip on earrings.
Because the necklace has multiple shades of pink, I wanted to mirror that in the earrings. This makes them more versatile that she can wear with multiple pink outfits. And who wouldn't want to wear these... like all the time! :o) If you've been reading my blog, you know I'm all about big bling! I LOVE CRYSTAL (and soon, I'm sure I'll have to find a support group for that).
I used a Swarovski flat-backed crystal as the focal then bead embroidered around it. The fringe off the bottom also features Swarovski crystals and a Swarovski tear drop. They look stunning in person and my mom is thrilled with them not looking like "old lady" earrings. PLUS they are super lightweight, so her ears won't get a headache from carrying around anything too heavy!
Stay tuned for more in my series of Accessorizing a Grand Wedding Celebration!
{Hugs!}
Dawn
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