Earrings, bracelets, necklaces ... I love to make them all. Swarovski crystal beads bring sparkling colors and visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead. For warm colors, I like to make bracelets from the natural beauty of obsidian and jasper beads.

This week I am working on another set of earrings like these and I am taking photos as I work. I will add a step-by-step help once I'm finished.

Earring lengths, excluding earwires are about 1.75 inches.

Material list:

Gold filled hard wire, 22 gauge cut from a 5 foot coil

From top left to center lower bead:

gold color 4mm filigree spacer bead

6mm topaz round Czech glass bead

gold color 4mm filigree spacer bead

6mm sapphire Swarovski crystal bead

gold color doughnut style spiral exterior spacer bead

gold color 6mm filigree spacer bead

gold color doughnut style spiral exterior spacer bead

6mm topaz round Czech glass bead at the bottom center

So the beads of each earring are:

4- gold color 4mm filigree spacer bead

3- 6mm topaz round Czech glass bead

2- gold color 4mm filigree spacer bead

2- 6mm sapphire Swarovski crystal bead

5- gold color doughnut style spiral exterior spacer bead (one of these doughnut spacer beads are at the top of the hoop)

When you snip the wire off the coil try to keep the round shape of the wire. Once all beads are on the two wires, check you beads to make sure you have same pattern on each earring hoop.

Put the hoop wire through the top doughnut style space bead so that one end sticks out each side. Carefully bend the wires up so that you have same length up on both sides. You will use a flat head plier to hold the two ends together as you twist them. I will show this in detail in the help text I am working on.