My Leftovers Went to My Ears....

I know I am a little late getting this out.  I so tried to do this last night but the holidays are really kicking me. LOL

 Erin, from Earrings Everyday sends out a monthly  We're All Ears Challenge. This month, the challenge was to Use Your Leftovers from a craftermath.

Now mind you I just had cleaned my crafting area when the challenge was issued,

so I just threw together some things that were in a bowl I have of  leftovers.

This is what I came up with.

Here is what I came up with...…

I have the mesh beads forever.  

So I decided to grab some chain, wire wrap the briolettes and add the starfish charms.

I have always wanted to use these but just didn't know what to do. 

So I just added some black recycled glass beads with black wired to create these cuties.

On my trip to Monterey, I found these two pieces of sea glass.

I don't work with yellows and browns much, so I knew I was going to whip these up.

I just drilled some holes in the sea glass and added the recycled glass beads.  

 That was pretty much it.

The next pair I created I think may be my favorites. 

I paired the seashell patina'd charms with some chain I had to create these.  

I really get a beachy feeling with these.

I am starting to use driftwood in my pieces.. 

I wire wrapped some sea glass I found at Santa Cruz, Ca to some driftwood pieces found at the same location.  Santa Cruz is definitely my favorite place t collect driftwood.

I call these my Jasmine earrings lol

I used some silk ribbon I had and wrapped some wire and beads to it.

I added the drops to add some length to them.

I started to photograph the next pair of earrings, but my handsome Luke had other plans.

Actually, he always has other plans for me when I am trying to create and photograph. lol

For the next pair, I used some recycled glass, briolette's in white and added some recycled glass beads to the ear wires.

My final pair I used some cultured sea glass beads and the infinity charms.

I am not really happy with these and just may repurpose them lol.

And that is it..... 8 pairs of leftover earrings.  Go check out what Erin and the other participants created here.

Use Your Leftovers Earring Challenge Reveal

Earrings Everyday is having their 3rd Annual 

Use Your Leftovers Earring Challenge 

It's been months since I have blogged about anything and thought this was a great time to start. I have been wanting to for a few weeks since I lost my job.

I guess I needed to regroup and think about my future and what I really wanted to do.

Anyhow the challenge starts out by taking a photo of you desk after a bead feast...

Here it is...

My desk is not normally this messy. Okay maybe it is, but I would like to think that I do get the chance to clean it when I can.  Even Dave my fish sits there waiting for his new tank to enjoy my creative process...

Next we are to get all the leftover in a container, tin or anything else that will hold the goodies.  I had my leftover pieces on a towel that I have been using as a bead cloth.  Everything else is full.  By this time I have still not cleaned anything and just picked through all the piles of gems.

I came out with 4 pairs of earrings.

I had some recycled glass laying around and thought I would just 

loosely hang them on the copper wire.

I love how these turned out.  I had some fire agate that I have been wanting to use and

paired them with the pearls. 

I added the abalone nuggets with the owl charms. 

It's funny because I forgot to add ear wires to these and did not

realize it until after I took the photos.

I am not one for birds. I don't know why. I love to bird watch and enjoy hearing them sing.  Hummingbirds are my absolute fav.  But on jewelry, I just am not into it. But my bestie does, so I made these for her.

And there you have it.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out what I made.  Check out the other fabulous earrings here

Have a wonderful day everyone.

Chelle