I made a new thing on my design blog. Please go check it out!
These elegant, steampunk-inspired earrings required a bit of trial and error, but they were very fun to make.
I’ve always wanted to make a pair of steampunk earrings, but the ironic thing is I’d never thought about what a pair of steampunk earrings would look like. I’ve seen chandelier-style ones with lots of tiny charms, and I’ve seen ones which involved a lot of chains, brass and pewter.
But as I was looking through my collection of charms, something just clicked. Suddenly, I knew exactly what I was doing with those charms. I’d had the small wing, key and gear charms for a long time, and the filigree pieces for even longer. And now I had an idea what to do with them.
At first, I had no idea how many charms I should add. I started out with 7, but that was too many. They were really heavy and…
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