Earrings: Astrid

I spent part of my afternoon (after doing some shores around the house) to again, play with this really cute beaded bead, which is made with using peanut beads (or farfalle) and some Miyuki fringe beads.
The pattern for the beaded bead (popcorn bead) is created by "The Beading Butterfly" and can be accessed for free here.

 After making a matching pair I tried one of them out together with some other beads on a head-pin, to see if I could get some simple earring design out of it.
I thought they looked just lovely together with some acrylic/plastic oval beads that I've been having in my stash since a while. At first, when I made the wrapped-loop I first attached the head-pin directly to the ear-hook but I didn't like how it looked like, so I decided to play around with some chain and experimented how it looked like with different amounts of chain links and found out that three looked the best.

I actually liked the somewhat classic/retro look of the earrings so I decided to make another pair with the remaining acrylic/plastic beads I had. Well, I had five but I have no idea at the moment what to do with the last - that will teach me to buy uneven amounts when they are sold per piece, lol.

Earrings: Berries

I spent last night surfing around and tried to get a pattern over a beaded bead that includes peanut breads and some Myuki fringe drop beads.

Finally I found what I were looking for on DeviantArt. These little beaded cuties are called popcorn beads and are made with right angle weave.
To get to the tutorial click here.

What I did when I had created two of these lil' cuties was that I picked out two dark blue 8mm czech firepolished glass bead, two 4mm pink bicones, two gold-plated head-pins, a pair of gold-plated jump-rings and a pair of gold-plated earhooks.

Then I assembled each of the loose pieces until I had one pair of cute little earrings.