"Where?" you ask. Right on your ears.
These pale-pink dogwood flowers are vintage glass and just perfect for spring. Think Easter. Or spring festivals of various kinds. You can even wear these earrings to work, except this pair is guaranteed to make you want to play hooky! Spring fever.
The flowers are a bit more than half an inch in size. The centers are small carnelians, and the findings and wire are sterling silver, of course.
These flowers came from my favorite vintage bead dealer, Cynthia, who lives in Colorado. In her past lives she has also designed jewelry, raised her kids as a back-to-the-land hippy mama (in a cabin with a wood-burning cookstove), and she still makes a few pieces of jewelry.
She also works 80-hour weeks routinely--this is a grandmother, mind you--and is thinking about retiring.
Of course I want Cynthia to do whatever she wants to do, but I'm worried about having my supply of vintage materials cut off. She says she'll still sell to friends even if she closes her online shop. Or maybe she'll find a way to cut back ... uh, huh, the people who know her are saying.
This pair of earrings is $30. I only made one pair, but they turned out so well that I e-mailed Cynthia while her online store was closed for vacation, and asked if she could let me have any more dogwood flowers. She is sending me four more, as a gift, so once those arrive I will be able to make two more pairs.
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