Swirls and Twirls

As I was saying yesterday - when I stumbled upon AJE's 'Inspired by... ' challenge I knew I had to enter it. The orchid picture was gorgeous, the colour is probably the only pink shade I can tolerate (fuchsia) and I had beads in that shade. For those who know me - to have pink beads is out of my range of normality. But I guess there is a beginning for every thing.

I have never owned anything pink. Except for a pique dress (which was actually my mom's) - a gorgeous shade of very light pink, and a cut that still makes me sigh so many years after (I don't even know if mom still has the pink dress, but I know for sure I won't be able to wear it anymore). And a T-shirt my dear hubby bought me many moons ago... pink? he said I would look good in it - yeah, I have the skin and eyes and hair colours that go well with pretty much anything... but... pink?

So what possessed me to buy these gorgeous dyed agate? I couldn't tell you - however it must have been something, 'cause I first got a faceted strand (along with the equally gorgeous blue ones from last week) and then I found some perfectly round one - and bought a second strand. And a pendant (tear shaped). Pink - all of them... fuchsia, bright lovely pink.

Seeing the orchid picture in the AJE blog post I knew I have to use them - and I have to use them 'now' :) So use them now I did.

I started by creating 3-4 wire-wrapped 'dangles'. I thought I will connect them together, make more and make a necklace. But they didn't feel right. Now I have 4 dangles and no piece. Great. Put it aside, I finished another pink necklace (we'll call it my 'pink' phase) - waiting for inspiration to hit. Had this piece of curved metal on my desk for a long time, really should have threw it in the garbage long time ago [a prize for the person who will guess what was the original usage of that piece of wire!]... and I kept coming back to it... until inspiration finally hit me! A bit (make that half a spool!) of wire here, a bit there - a dangle here, another one there, some hammering here, some twisting there...

When I finished I had this piece in my hand - and as my own 'babies' go this one just took the Oscar home. I like all my wire pieces a lot (the ones I made in the past 2 months or so), really do - but this one - is in a category by itself :)

I just love how it ended up, the silver swirly dangles flowing gracefully between the beaded dangles!

Of course I had to make a pair of earrings - although they cannot be wear together, the necklace must be alone. Now I need a bracelet for the earrings - next project :)

And all together:

As luck would have it - my hubby bought me a bunch of T-shirts (he stumbled upon a nice deal) - and between orange, blue, and white he got a fuchsia, a pink, and a purple one. Fuchsia... fuchsia... guess what I will wear today??