Autumn Sonata IV... Red Woods

Things I love about Autumn...... deep, rich colours that the foliage turns before disappearing, but for a couple of months there is so much beautiful yellows, reds, varying hues of orange and the remaining greens. This treasury is focused on my favourite combination of deep reds and greens.

Straining fingers

In the last few days I got to thinking that I somewhat was avoiding doing the kind of earrings I just adore, mainly because these types of design require sacrificing your fingers and your eyes and a lifetime of hours. Well, I took a plunge and for a few days straight disciplined myself enough to sit down and get some of them done.
Each silver part is handcrafted, put together, wired together, oxidized etc by my own hands. Terribly time consuming, especially with all those tiny 2mm-can-hardly-see-them-going-blind beads. No nails left after all that metal-working, but I'm pretty satisfied with the result. Here they are:
PS. I must have enjoyed doing them - I'm working on similarly complex designs in gold now :)