It’s cold and wet here in Melbourne today. School holidays too and the kids are housebound. Seems a funny time to be making summer themed jewellery, but at the same time it’s kind of appropriate. I love the sun, and I miss it desperately in winter. Sadly today we don’t even get the benefit of a cool sunny day, it’s gray and stormy.
But the challenge is on at Art Jewelry Elements to create summer-themed pieces. When I think of summer, all sorts of things come to mind: BBQs, holidays by the beach, but overwhelmingly, the one thing that really means summer to all Aussies is the blazing hot sun!
So with that in mind, I have created my own sunshine today with a pair of sunny earrings (hey, I did say it was the school holidays here!).
The ceramic charms are from Natalie Fletcher-Jones, and they are very yellow, with a hint of pinky-orange at the tops. Like the sun early in the morning. I’ve paired them with some sweet orange flowers and a blush-coloured round, and tied together with waxed linen.
Thank you AJE for reminding me about the sun! This is a challenge and you should go and have a look at some of the other blogs:
Melissa Trudinger <– YOU ARE HERE
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The colors are fantastic and truly celebrate the sun. The color gradation also reminds of sunrise / sunset in the horizon of the sea 🙂
Extra shout out to you Melissa for playing along when your seasonal schedule is topsy turvy from ours! The earrings are perfect summer sun!
those drops remind me of when the ice cream truck came around And the colors are so fitting of those long hot summers. your earrings are so sweet.
What beautiful earrings! They do scream summer.
These really do remind me of the very hot summer days I spent in your country – lovely!
What a beautiful pair of earrings, I love the colours! I feel your pain with the weather too, were in the middle summer and have nothing but storms for the past week!
Your earrings are wonderful. They definitely make me think sunny thoughts, like maybe a tall glass of ice cold raspberry lemonade on a hot day.
Beautiful! I love the sunny yellow! Really screams Summer!
Your winter sounds like our summer! Love the earrings though, they’ve brightened up a dull day!
I love your earrings. Very summery. Yellow is such a happy color.
Very pretty and brings out the sunshine.
Love your happy sunshine-y earrings! Those charms were a great find perfect for adding some summer to your wintertime. 🙂
Oh yes, even though it’s your winter, those scream summer! Love her charms! Thanks for playing along!