What’s the perfect attire for vet school functions? UK’s Debby Wakley (debbeadsjewellery) sent her daughter off with these dairy cow earrings, a perfect accent for any farm attire. They began with a flat cutout from CraftyThread. Deb brought the shapes to life with some sculpting, colors, eyes, and horns. She obviously knows her farm animals. […] Read more
The latest batch of earrings from Cyprus’ Arieta Stavridou have a distinct folk look. These earrings will match the long embroidered skirts and fancy headgear of the village dance troupe. Maybe these are for the trendy tourists. They have a strong ethnic vibe. Arieta says making these earrings is play for her. She’s ventured into […] Read more
This tray of earrings from Utah’s Mary Anne Loveless keeps the colors under control in a most appealing way. The graduated backgrounds are tied together into neat dangles held together visually by contrasting stripes. Is it the vertical blends that make these feel so right? The blends run in opposite directions on the left and […] Read more
Australia’s Bron (bombalabee) knows her birds. These are rainbow bee-eaters. Other species fly in and out of her shop – pin robins, black cockatoos, rosellas, macaws, parrots, magpies, and more. Bron layers on polymer feathers with a birder’s eye for detail, shapes, and colors. Her website is launching this month. Welcome her. What’s on your […] Read more
Chloe at Australia’s Blue Beetle Co creates this new line of earrings and imagines Malala staring out her window, with the twinkly sky behind her. She thinks of all the ways Pakastani activist Malala is changing the world. In her search for women icons, Chloe has also created a line of Dolly Parton earrings too. […] Read more
Diandra (41stivy) had tickets to the Van Gogh exhibition in Vancouver on the weekend. A girl has to wear the right earrings, right? It took her just over three hours to build the sunflower painting in polymer. Here’s Diandra’s in-progress video on Facebook. Her speed may make you want to hit the ground running on […] Read more
These featherweight dangles from Macedonia’s Susan Sju stopped me in my tracks. Don’t you love to reverse-engineer pieces? I’m not sure I understand how Susan got to this point and she has even more confounding and delightful patterns on her Facebook. Extruded blended strings laid next to each other and flattened perhaps? Look at the […] Read more
Philadelphia’s Vanessa Dunn (XENIASTUDIO) calls these her Wave earrings. She’s paired up with a Philly-based ethical clothing company who had their model wear her abstract polymer earrings in a shoot. Her earring designs blend beautifully with Voloshin’s breezy billowy cotton designs. Vanessa sprinkles shots of her earrings on models throughout her Instagram to great effect. […] Read more
Here’s another helping of Australian goodies from Perth’s Lisa (Miss Peppy Handmade). These birdie earrings are made from Skinner blends stacked in alternating layers of light-to-dark. Carving reveals the underlying colors. A bunch of Aussie artists gathered together for a Stronger Together giveaway. As they explain, “We don’t have to think of each other as […] Read more
A visit to Bonnie Gilmore’s Hatching Sparrows led me to the mother lode of Australian polymer artists. We may have to mine this all week. But I digress. These merrily collaged earrings are from Fee’s Pickled Ginger though they’re mostly sold out. Flat thin cutouts of leaves and feathers are bunched with brightly patterned narrow […] Read more
