Week 50

This was a "Purple" week for the Challenge earrings. This pair is made from some of my favorite beads. Rubberized acrylic swirls, with cut outs, make for very light beads, even though they are large.



Check out the rest of Week 50 on the Earrings 365 page.

Undulations - Violet Family

Here is another one. I decided to use a book page from my very old Gray's Botany, hence the name Violet Family.

Undulations

It was mostly rainy and dark today until around 3 p.m. and I wanted some color in my life. After making my daily earrings, I wanted to try something I found on the web last night. This is it. I'm very pleased with my first "Undulation" and will be making more and adding them to my Z'oodles.

This is an excellent practice for shading and color placement. The next one will have every other "row" the opposite color way. These are very fun.

I won!

Over at OnlineAuction.com they had a little contest to see who could come up with the most creative pictures that also included their logo. I Won!! Here is the picture that got me voted Number 1!



I love this picture of the overburdened postman. All those years of playing in the mail art community really paid off. I was very surprised because I rarely win anything, and some of the other entries were pretty good.

Ok...this time I did forget

Once you get out of a habit, it's very hard to get back into it. So, here I am trying to acquire my posting habit again. I just posted Weeks 48 and 49 and here are a couple of pairs from those weeks.


May 28th


June 5th

I have only 20 more days of this challenge. Yah! Stayed tuned for more earrings. This week seems to be a purple week. That is quite appropriate, at 50 you get to wear red and purple.

I Did Not Forget

I've been sick for the last 2 1/2 weeks with a sinus infection. I've never had a sinus infection before and I don't ever want another one. I'd even prefer an ear infection to what I just went through. The cough is still hanging on, but I'm recovering. I hate being sick.

I have been keeping up with the challenge this past week, but I was behind about four days last week because I just couldn't get up enough energy to sit at the bead desk. Here are a couple of pair of earrings from the last two weeks.

Week 46

Week 47

I'm back on schedule and have about 5 weeks left of the Challenge. I wasn't sure if I would make it a full year, but now that I'm this far along, I ain't quiting!

Only 53 Pair of Earrings To Go!

This challenge is coming to a close rather quickly. I've been able to use up some long lost beads, making room for more. :) I might get a bit adventurous with some of the remaining earrings since I received my new book, "Steel Wire Jewelry" by Brenda Schweder. Looks like lots of bendy, coily fun, and I still have a big roll of steel wire from my classes last year at Art and Soul.

I'm happy to say that I've sold 13 weeks worth of earrings so far. If you are interested in helping out two no-kill shelters for our furry friends, come on over and bid on some earrings. Check them out here - Z'annes Bazaar.

A Pair From Week 45

The blue and white speckled beads on the bottom of these earrings are glow in the dark beads. I think it's always fun to add a little unexpected surprise to every day things. Don't you?

Week 44

Only two months to go on this challenge. Still having fun and finding the most interesting "beads" in of all places, Petco. These little blocks are made for the littlest critters to chew on, but I had to use them for earrings. They are very light, a little clunky, but I have dressed them up with Swarovski marguerites and fire polished glass beads.



Just the right pair when you are in the mood to have fun.

Ethnic and Crystals

I have had these little "vase" shaped ethnic beads for a long, long time. I was going through my stash to find something else and found these. It's amazing how we can put something away to keep for "special", lose it and then find it again when we aren't even looking for it. Anyway...I paired these beads with some lovely graduated Swarovski marguerites. Enjoy.

Happy Easter

Here is my Zentangle version of the Easter Bunny for you.

Week 42 - Only 10 More Weeks To Go

I've been under the weather for almost a week, feeling much better today. Even though I was not feeling the best, I still got myself up to the bead desk every day to make my daily pair of earrings. I've taken this challenge seriously and as far as I've come, I ain't gonna stop now!

Here is the pair for April 11th.



These are large tear drop dangles of ochre colored epoxy-over-brass under red and amber colored crystals. I found these dangles at Fire Mountain Gems and come in different colors, sizes and shapes. They are very light and make great earrings.

Another Week Completed

I had forgotten about these beads and only found them when cleaning out a bead drawer. They are a luscious light blue with spots of dichroic glass fused to the middle of them. To highlight the beads and crystals, I added some black spacers. They sparkle so nicely in the light.



With less than 3 months to go, I'm still lovin' this challenge. I'm trying to decide if I want to continue with another yearly challenge. Whether it be a collage a day, a blog post a day, a Zentangle day or something completely different. We'll just have to see. Either way, it will be here for all to see.

Week 40 !

Yay! Only 12 more weeks to go! This week seemed to be the week of Crystals. I got some new Marguerite Swarovski flower crystals last week and have been having fun with them. I now have to get some more colors, they are rather addicting. Here is one pair of earrings with the Marguerites:



You can see more of Week 40 here.

New things to see

I've been spending most of my day waiting for downloads of my pictures to my various pages. oh the joy of dial up. But, it's dark, dreary, wet and cold, a perfect day to spend in front of the computer or fire.

Here is a pair of flower earrings I made for this week to celebrate the start of Spring. I should have made some snowflakes, too. ;)



I been having a ton of fun making oodles of flower earrings. The combinations are so much fun to put together. New beads and charms are coming next week for more Earrings 365! Whoopee!

Happy Vernal Equinox!

Here is the pair of earrings I made today for my challenge and for Spring! I think I will make flower earrings all this week to celebrate the Spring season. It's been so grey and gloomy up here in the woods. I think it might be a loooong time until the flowers come out to greet the day.



I found these great little matte resin flowers at Artbeads.com, they come in about five or seven different kinds of flowers. Just layer them over a small flower bead like this or a Swarovski crystal and you've got a great pair of earrings for Spring, Easter or Mother's Day.

Week 37

I started to gather materials for these earrings yesterday, (mottled brown beads surrounded by peridot-colored crystals) and then the power went out. Earlier, I had been working on balancing the checkbook and taxes (whoopie). I waited until later to make my daily pair as a treat for doing the drudgery work and then...ZAP. Actually it wasn't so much of a zap as it was a whoosh. We had one heck of a wind storm come through mid-afternoon and power was killed by a tree taking out the major powerlines on Hwy. 26. The weather system was a weird one. It came in, did its damages and then within an hour was gone.

We got out the oil lamps and fired up the little Ben Franklin stove. The light from the lamps is not to good for beading, so we sat and listened to the radio until we got the lights back on about 6 hours later. Immediately went to the bead desk and got these pair done. There were occasional blinks from the lights throughout the night, but today things are much better.

We lost one of our big hemlock trees. It fell away from the driveway and took out a number of little trees in its wake. There were also a couple of tree tops that broke off and a number of alders that broke in half. Nothing fell on the house, shop or barn and no blocked driveway. Another weather system is coming later tonight with more wind. Not really looking forward to that.

The thing I hate the most....changing the clocks AGAIN after this episode.

I completely forgot....

...about uploading my pictures of the current past two weeks of earrings. Sheesh! I love this getting older stuff...NOT! So...here are a couple of examples from Week 35 and Week 36.

President's Day

I hope those of you who had the day off had a nice day. For the rest of us, yeah...it was a Monday. One good thing, the weather was fairly nice for February in Oregon. The sun shone, the clouds were high and fluffy and we had hardly any wind. A nice Spring-like day. Now here comes the snow. Again. Just about every day for the rest of the week. oh boy, oh boy. i am really excited. i can hardly contain myself.

But enough of that, on to better things...this is a pair of earrings I made today. I love these little beads. Check out this page at Goody Beads for lots of cool stuff to make the new large hole bead charm bracelets.

It has come to my attention....

To view each week of earrings, at the Earrings 365 page, click on the picture of the week you wish to see and it will expand larger. Each pair has the date underneath and if you have a question about a certain pair, please email me at zannesbazaar at yahoo dot com.

Thank you!

A Heart-y Week

This week is all about red hearts. Except Monday, it's just Red and I wanted to use those fabulous beads. I used different beads and different metals with these really cool rubberized acrylic hearts. The beads feeeeellll as soft as silk and are very light on the lobes. You can find them at Fire Mountain Gems and Beads under Acrylic and then scroll down to Rubber.

I wish everyone a Loving and Lovely Valentine's Day!