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Thanks for visiting my jewelry blog. This post features modestly priced earrings made by me for holiday giving. This is one of three sequential posts with Holiday Gift Jewelry, just keep scrolling for the other two. This one is focused on winter vacation earrings: snow; beach; southwest and spa. My Etsy shop is https://www.etsy.com/shop/SusanDolphinDelaney?ref=search_shop_redirect
My shop is loaded with other amazing earrings and pendants. To see the other two posts on bargain Holiday Gift Earrings and Pendants, just keep scrolling.
Every woman needs a pair of crown earrings. Whether you are feeling like Queen for a Day, whether you have just earned a promotion, whether you have cracked the glass ceiling or whether you are feeling like royalty, you need a pair of beautiful, unique crown earrings. Crown earrings make a great gift for yourself, your mentor, a high-achieving daughter or for a special woman at a special milestone.
Here are some of the crown earrings in my Etsy shop, SusanDolphinDelaney, where I make #JewelryForBusyWomen. There is a link at the end of the post where you can see all of my crown earrings.
Sea glass earrings are perfect for days when you wish you were at the beach. Or for when you are actually at the beach. Allow me to take you on a tour of some of the sea glass earrings available in my shop.
I make Jewelry for busy women. My earrings, pendants and necklaces will never distract you. You can put them on in the morning and forget about them. At least until someone compliments you!
Please allow me to show you some unique and beautiful Birthday and Anniversary gifts. Some are real Statement Pieces, one of a kind. Others are simply classic and stunning. Buy now to be sure your gift is still available.
I hope you will visit my shop SusanDolphinDelaney on Etsy. www.susandolphindelaney.etsy.com I ship everything First Class Package, so if you buy today, you will have your gift in plenty of time.
I made my first piece with one of Anne Choi’s quote beads. The quote reads, “The Greatest Pleasure in Life is Doing What People Say You Cannot Do.”
Amen!
I strung the oxidized silver bead with large gray pearls, dotted sterling bead caps and spacers and six blue flash labradorites. The clasp is sterling.
I bought a fascinating glass sculpture from a talented glass artist in Scotland. He called it “Wind.” But what I saw was a gorgeous pregnant belly. So I called the wind Mariah.
Mother’s Day is coming up and this would be a great gift to yourself to commemorate your pregnancy, current or past. Or a great gift to another mother.
This subtle glass sculpture is aqua with deeply encased lilac dichroic on the front and gold, orange and aqua dichroic on the back. The artist added a violet luster when he annealed it in the kiln.
I admit that I never thought I would make jewelry with Lucite. Then I found some 80 year old vintage Lucite beads. After so many years, they develop chatoyancy, a cat’s eye phenomena seen mostly in gems and translucency. Their reflectance can be seen across the room.
I was lucky enough to buy some beads from a visionary lamp work artist from Luxembourg. One pair seemed to have eyes and reminded me of DROIDS. Another seemed to have been excavated from Ancient Crete. It made me wonder if there were droids even then.
I just added these and six other items to my Etsy shop, SusanDolphinDelaney. I hope you will visit and see if there is anything there with your name on it.
I make Luxe Jewelry for busy women who want to put on their jewelry in the morning and forget about it until they take it off in the evening. However, I build into each piece fascination. If you are stuck in a boring meeting or on a long call, you can look at your pendant or one earring and discover all of the unique features in it.
When I opened the package with these two remarkable Basha Bead tubes, I immediately “saw” this necklace.
The Basha beads begin with pink and silver, move to aqua and silver and finish with shade upon shade of silver. I used a single large Swarovski pearl as the center of the design. I strung the Basha Bead tubes on tiny silver beads for flexibility and finished the necklace with plump lavender rice pearls.
A remarkable, nature-loving metalsmith created this nest of twigs from brass. She half-silvered it, giving it the look of golden dawnlight on snow. I hung an icy blue Basha Bead from the nest.
The bead dances with every shade of silver and of pale aqua. The pendant is 2”.
This pendant necklace will be a great companion in a long meeting, as you study the half-silvering of the nest and the mystery within the Basha Bead. I hung the pendant from a 1.3 mm 18” sterling wheat chain.
