What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?... OR... Wood Earrings Challenge Accepted!
Yeah, there's no drunken sailor... but I made you look! (That song has been stuck in my head for days, so now it's stuck in yours. You're welcome.) I have 4 different jewelry projects going on at once. When I have a new idea I drop everything to make it. It's a problem. It drives me crazy. It's who I am. This project, however, is one that I COMPLETED! I have a big old pile of these (above) wood earring blanks, so I've created a challenge for myself: See how many completely different styles of earrings I can create using the same wooden blanks. I accept my own challenge! For this set of 6 earrings I started by staining the backs a nice warm color. I don't want to mask the fact that these earrings are wood, I want to highlight it. Once again I am using monoprints that I made several years ago. I have a huge stack of beautiful prints that do such a great job of providing pops of color so why not plaster them on EVERYTHING? I've had the idea to use pure ...
