AEDM Week 1

Day 1: Okay, so I didn't really decide to do AEDM until day 2, so this one is kind of cheating. I basically just took a pair of feather earrings I had already made and added little moonstone and labradorite beads to them on day 2. They are very long, dangly, shoulder-duster type earrings. These were the only 2 feathers that looked like this in the package of pheasant feathers I got, and I rather like them, especially the iridescent green-tinged tips.

Day 2: I have had these beads for a while, and I think they are absolutely adorable. The only problem is that their holes are waaaay bigger than a headpin could hold, so I had to bend the wires into a spiral that could support the beads. Not my neatest work by any stretch, but I love mushrooms, and these beads were just too cute not to use.

Day 3: More feather earrings; these are guinea feathers with snowflake obsidian beads. These feathers caught my eye because they are uniquely shaped, and I like the way the grey and black marbled snowflake obsidian complements them.

Day 4: Chainmail earrings with garnet beads. The weave is Byzantine, both for the dangly part and for the surround of the garnets. Byzantine is still far from my favorite weave, but I find I like it better when it is not just a plain chain, but when it is arranged in more complex patterns like surrounding beads. Also, I love the combination of garnets and silver.

Day 4 (Bonus): I made a pendant to match the garnet and silver chainmail earrings, because: Why not?

Day 5: Necklace with seed pearls and peridot beads. I think it's very delicate looking, which I think is fitting especially for these tiny little pearls.

Day 6: This necklace with silver chain and peacock pearls was an experiment in trial and error, and one that I'm still not 100% satisfied with. Even so, I'm satisfied enough with it that I decided to leave it as it was rather than fiddling with it further. I knew I wanted a multi-strand necklace with different sizes of pearls interspersed throughout, and I knew I wanted the different strands to be at graduated lengths to create a multi-tiered effect. After making the 3 different strands with pearls on them, I wasn't happy with how the necklace looked, so I measured the difference between each of the strands and cut chains to go halfway between each strand. My measuring must've been wrong though, because when I put them onto the necklace, they seemed to closely follow the first and second strands rather than going evenly between the strands. At that point, I added the one final strand to follow the 3rd strand and decided to be done with it.

Day 7: These earrings actually go with a necklace I made a while ago. The necklace is a single strand of the gray pearls with faceted labradorite beads at regular intervals, with a similar-looking Japanese weave chainmail pendant with only 1 repetition instead of 2.