Poinsettia earrings

I've just added new earrings to my etsy store today: polymer clay, handmade poinsettia earrings.

They are made of red, yellow and green fimo polymer clay, and dusted in several places with gold mica powder.

They were a pleasure to make, and the whole process didn't take much time - which is quite unusual, because by "the whole process" I mean from first design to complete finish.

 It was probably due to the fact that I was thinking about making something like this pair for some time now, so the final design came to me pretty fast - though I entertained two different approaches - and shaping, baking and adding finishing touches went really... smooth. ( or should it be smoothly?). All in all, I've finished them in about 2.5 - 2hours 45 minutes.

As always, I didn't use any moulds whatsoever, and the only ready made elements are silver-plated ear wires.
They are 2.8cm(4.5cm including ear wires) long and weight only 1.5g each. Poinsettia elements are approximately 2.3cm in diameter (due to their shape measuring was a bit tricky).

They are ready to be sold, and will come in a box like the one on the photo :)

I think they would make a nice little Christmas gift:) What do you think?

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 Aaand I'm just happy to say that this weekend I sold one of two art clay silver pendants I had in my store. Yay! I dispatched the pendant today and I hope it will arrive safely to its new owner, and that said owner will be happy with her order :)

Till the next time!
Kasia

Beacause Christmas adverts are already everywhere...

...I gave in to the madness and made winter/Christmas earrings.

They are made of fimo polymer clay in white and mother of pearl. I also used fimo liquid to strengthen them and make sure they won't fall apart or break. I like the outcome well enough, but while I was making them I thought I was going to explode out of shear irritation with all those little parts... and polymer clay, that was getting really sticky, especially near the end. But I won! And that's the good thing about jewellery-making for me: it tests my patience (which isn't great) and encourages me to develop rather persistent streak.
And here they are:

 They are about 4.1 - 4.3cm long each. If you count earhook, that would make them about 5.5cm long each. They are extremely lightweight, which is quite common for polymer clay jewellery - you would have to use rather big amounts of it to make something heavy. Those earrings weight only 1 - 1.1g each.

I don't know why mother of pearl snowflakes look kind of... lightly brownish-grey here...
Anyway, the earhooks are silver-plated and, to the best of my knowledge, nickel-free ( I was in no way involved in making them, so I cannot say for sure, but that's what seller promised ), and jump rings are sterling silver.

I made those earrings entirely by hand, without using any moulds, so there are slight differences between them. I think there is 1 - 2 mm difference in length, but I'm not sure, and I don't have them anywhere near me at the moment, so I cannot check. Also, I'm lazy and I can't be bothered to go and measure them right now ;) But the measurements I have written down differ by that amount, so that should be it.

They are protected with varnish, and are ready to be sold in their own little box :)

For next post, I will probably show some stuff I've made some time ago, because right now I'm in the process of making another necklace combining viking knit and chasing and repousee, and that will take some time. I also, for some perplexing reason, decided to solder a bezel on pendant of that necklace, and now I'm wondering if I survive that process.... because of some technical difficulties it's driving me mad!

Anyway, I hope I WILL finish that necklace in some reasonable time, that I WILL solder that blasted bezel on as it should be soldered on, and that I will NOT go completely crazy in the meantime ;)

Have a great weekend!

Kasia