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.

I have purchased this style (frosted and clear glass) Czech glass beads in two colors: cranberry red and blueberry blue. I have used them in several of my designs.

I was trying out my design when I took this photo. The dangle on the right ends with two red beads. The dangle on the left ends with three red beads, where the middle lowest of the three beads hangs from a small link of the Sterling silver chain. I still haven't decided which style (2 bead end or 3 bead end) I like.

You can tell I'm in design stage for this jewelry project because I like to use these style leverback earwires when I'm deciding on a design. If you look closely you can see that you can slide the dangle on and off this earwire by just opening the leverback and moving the dangle out of the hook area of the earwire.

Overall length excluding earwires: 2.0 inches

Material list:

Sterling silver leverback style earwire

1.75 inch length of 1.5mm Sterling silver chain (2 small links, then a larger link)

Each of the red beads are on a sterling silver 3/4 inch ball-ended headpin