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.

Blue Turquois with Swarovski earring and bracelet with gold accent

Gold accented hoop earrings with natural turquois and Swarovski® bicone crystal beads.

Approximate length of earring excluding the earwire: 1.75 inches

See below for detail photos and comments for making these earrings.

Material list for an earring:

Gold Plated kidney shaped leverback earwire

Gold Plated spacer beads used on hoop

Gold filled hard wire 22 gauge for hoop

4mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead (middle bead)

8mm natural Turquois beads with dark veining

The pattern is:

8mm natural Turquois beads with dark veining

4mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal bead

Gold Plated spacer bead

4mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal bead

8mm natural Turquois beads with dark veining

6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead as middle bead

and so on back out to the other end of the earring hoop

Blue Turquiois with Swarovski earring and bracelet with gold accent

I then put the two ends of the hoop wire through one gold plated spacer bead and carefully (so not to crush the spacer bead) I turned the ends of the hoop wire up to ready for twisting them together.

Photo shows detail of making hoops from gold filled hard wire and then twisting the two endings of the wire.

I do this by grasping both ends at the same time using a wide flat plier to twist the wire ends together. Be careful not to mess up the circle of your hoop as you work at twisting the end wires together

Next I compare the two earrings to make sure the twisted wire ends are about the same length. If not I snip off a little bit from one twisted end to even up.

Then I use the needle nose plier and gently bend each of the twisted end wire into a loop and hang the hoop from the earwire.