The Great White North

This week I was going to do something for St Patrick's Day, but my creative juice just was not green. As Kermit says, it isn't easy to be Green.

 Maybe it was the snow.  Here it is, March and over 40 degrees F. outside and snow falling in big flakes.  Opuson said that one afternoon this past week, in a 10 mile drive, it rained, snowed, sleeted and hailed on him in between the sun breaks.  At this rate, it will be spring in June, just in time for our two month summer.  I really shouldn't complain, the weather here is generally milder than most parts of the country.
 
I found little face beads on the sale table at Fusion Beads, and even though I had no particular plans, I just KNEW that I could find a use for them.  (My hubbie calls it hording, I call it planning for the future). I revisited my wheelie bead design from a while back, adding my new friends to the mix.  The final bead reminded me a bit of the logo on the tail of the Alaska airline planes, so I dubbed it "The Great White North".  

Wheelie Earrings

I had several Wheelies left over from the necklace I made, so this morning  I made some earrings

Experimented with making my own ear wires.  I don't think they turned out too bad.

Hope these wires don't cause allergy problem with my ears

Wheelie update

Remember these?



I really couldn't come up with more than one way to make these into jewelery, so I revamped the design a bit to include a hole and a bit different center.

Believe it or not, the dots on the side are the same color as the little melon beads. Just goes to show that the surrounding colors make a big difference.