Happy Fourth of July! / This week with Entrecard

We hope that all Americans at home and abroad
have a happy celebration of Independance Day.
Here is a pair of my own glass beaded earrings
that remind me of the red, white and blue!



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Thank you for advertising with me on my Entrecard-widget this past week,
from June 28th to July 4th. Please visit these fine sites:

Monday, June 28st - Grampy's World

Tuesday, June 29th - Jealousy Jewelry & Design

Wednesday, June 30th - Grandmother Wren

Thursday, July 1st - Meow Diaries

Friday, July 2nd - Sara Cat writes / Sara Katt skriver

Saturday July 3rd - The Red Cat Society



Sunday, July 4th - Mariuca's Perfume Gallery

Best wishes,

Anna

First Commenter:
Leslie of
'I'm a Mark Girl'

Mellow Yellow Monday #59: Earrings, earrings! International Women's Day

To celebrate International Women's Day (or however it's called in English, please correct me, anyone) I would like to show some new earrings that have not yet been listed in my shops.

Here are some yellows:

Take a closer look at these cat-earrings. I've made them with orange squares too. (These are in honour of Calle Cat's new venture "The Red Cat Society" Take a peek here.)

And here are some greens,

since Saint Patrick's Day is just around the corner: (Love those little glass squares!)

And all the while I was working with these earrings, Elisabet was making a necklace for herself:

Well, she actually made two!

Happy Monday!

Anna


P.S.

(To the world's best photographers who may happen to stop by an see this post: Yes, I know these shots are horrible with the flash. Yuck. Natural lighting or a tripod and well-placed lamps are better! I have had a terrible day and the sun went down when I finally got around to taking the pics. I promise to not use these photos in my shop, then no one will buy these earrings. To women everywhere in the world who are working double, I salute you sisters!)

First Commenter: Ann of Ann's Snap Edit Scrap

Should children be allowed to have their ears pierced?

I received an interesting comment from Jenny Matlock yesterday on my Alphabe-Thursday "E, as in Earrings"-post yesterday.

In response to my photo with piles of earrings with ear wires, Jenny Matlock writes: "Beautiful earrings. My granddaughters are drooling over some "dangly" earrings but they are so young. Do you make anything suitable for an eight year old?"
Yes I do. I make earrings with screwback-findings for children and young people as well as adults like myself who do not have pierced ears.

I do not approve of piercing the ears of children. I don't even like young teens having pierced ears.
But if I don't approve of piercing the ears of children, why do I make and sell posts and earwires? I do this because there is a market for them, because so many woman want them.
If an adult woman already has pierced ears and would like to buy earwires, I would be a fool to not accommadate her. I sell sterling silver ear wires and think about good hygiene. I never sell used earwires. If a customer would like a specific wire gauge (wire thickness) or metal for her earrings, I try to get it for her.

But I am not in this business to make more people have their ears pierced, or get them to have their daughters' ears pierced. This is why I try to offer findings for wearers who do not have holes in their ears. There are screwbacks and clip-ons and other interesting solutions. No girl or woman should ever need to feel that they have to get their ears pierced. I will redo any design and make them wearable for non-pierced ears.
Here are some earrings with screwback findings (plus one with ear wires for comparison).

Most of these dangle-designs are small and light-weight and could be worn by an eight year old girl.
I can make earrings for your special needs and list them as a reservation in your name on my Etsy shop. Please tell me what colour and style you think your granddaughters would like. Click here to get to my Etsy shop, AnnasAdornments.

Thank you for asking, Jenny.
Best wishes,
Anna

Alphabe-Thursday-"E" as in "Earrings"

For today's meme, Jenny Matlock's "Alphabe-Thursday" the letter is "E" as in "EARRINGS".

Here is a sampling of my own handmade earrings, most of them are not yet listed in my shops. (Double-click and get a closer view! Let me know if anything strikes your fancy!)

Happy Alphabe-Thursday!
Anna

Blue on Monday

Today is Monday and in keeping with "Blue Monday Meme" this post will have lots of blue in it! As I said yesterday, from now on, there will be new jewellery on every post, including posts with memes.

Here is a photo of a place you may have seen before if you are aquainted with Anna's blog. It was a Blue Monday-post and the photo was taken earlier in the fall of 2009. It's our neighbor's blue garden furniture.

And now, here is the same scene, taken just a few days ago in February 2010!

And here are the chairs again, from an other angle. They certainly are buried in snow!

But we are not finished yet. Here are some cool blue and white necklaces that might be nice to wear in spring and summer: The first three are stretch necklaces with glass beads, Czech pressed glass and Chinese cat's eye glass beads, millifiori (a thousand flowers) glass beads of unknown origin, and some Chinese porcelain beads with good luck symbols on them. I am also using clear seedbeads and clear elastic cord.

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This fourth necklace is strung on soft beading-wire with a sterling silver toogle clasp. But I am wondering if the soft drape maybe wasted on the daggers. I have been thinking about trying memory-wire. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? What if I redo it on memory-wire?

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And finally, here are some blue earrings, but I will have more earrings on a separate post very soon. I made a pair of earrings for the necklace with the Chinese porcelain beads, but forgot to include them in this photo. Sorry! They will turn up later.

Happy Blue Monday!
Anna

Happy Valentine's Day!

From now on, I am going to feature new jewellery on every post. To honour Heart's Day, here are a pair of earrings with little hearts and antiqued brass findings. I haven't worked with brass very much before, so this is something new. (The leverbacks are also new.)


Yes, I know that if I were better at marketing, I would have listed these earrings in one of my shops weeks and weeks ago in time for the sale of Valentine-items that people actually have time to purchase before the event. These earrings are not yet listed in any shop. This post is just to celebrate this day about remembering those we love. No hurry. I can sell them next year or give them away to a friend.

Happy Valentine's Day!
Hugs from
Anna