More Double Earrings! This Time in Pheasant

There's not much to write on here about the new feather earrings.  I have a small collection of pheasant feather and guinea hen to do crafts with, and while all of these are in pheasant...the others are soon to come.

 The earwires are still surgical steel, but plated in gold or silver.  I've never been fond of gold personally, but they seem to look very nice on some of the stone combinations

 One of these days, I shall make several of each design, but for now I'm just trying out different color combinations.

While they are somewhat easy to do, and it's fun to have conversations on Skype while I'm working, they still can take a bit of time.  The most delicate part is making sure the feathers are facing the correct direction before they're set.

Double Feather Earrings

Fluorite and Unikite

As I'm getting ready for the Powwow, that is slowly creeping up on me, my mother send me a box full of little turkey feathers.  While they're not big enough to paint on, they're pretty enough to do some simple feather earrings.

Amethyst and Shell

 I've used surgical steel ear wire.  Half of the reason is convenience on my part and the other half is to help them be cost effective.

Rhodonite and Moonstone

I hope to do many, many more before the event.  They're quite a bit of fun to create, and they take considerable less concentration than my paintings!

Rose Quartz and Shell

 While most of these are meant to be sold as just the earrings, I may decide to make a matching necklace for the ones at the bottom; made out of turquoise and coral stones.

Turquoise and Coral

Feather Earrings!

While the painted earrings are a lot of fun, it's very trying on my patience to do a nice set.  So I figured I'd just try my hand at some simpler styles.

The single feathers were easy enough, and then I found a way to make some really nice ones with double strands of beads.  Some of them have semi-precious stones, and some are just beads and shell.  But they make me really happy.  And a shout out to my mother for finding me feathers and beads that are beautiful to work with.  Thanks mom!

Painted Earrings

I knew I could do detailed paintings, but I wanted to try something a little more affordable.  Detailed paintings take a lot of work and patience, I don't even want to think about doing perfect, or close to perfect pairings for a set of earrings!  So I did some simple designs.  I did some similar type quick designs for the 2010 Frisco Powwow, so when my mother sent me a pack of chicken feathers, it seemed the logical solution!

Later on, I was invited to vend at a Pagan Pride Day in Central NC, so while I did my normal native-ish designs, I added a little bit more of the typical pagan design to some of them.