My latest creation

Over the last few weeks, I have felt a little uninspired and not even a little bit creative.  It was terrible.  I was starting to feel that my creativity had dried up which is not a good thing for someone that makes jewelry and relies on creativity to inspire designs.  That is why I was so relieved when last night at last I once again had some new ideas popping into my head.  Thank God! 

In my boxes of beads, I discovered this brown glass bead with varying levels of color throughout the bead.  It is beautiful.  I had forgotten about it because I had gotten it right before I had gone away on vacation.  As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to create something with it.  That something ended up being 2 pairs of sterling silver earrings.  I am so pleased with them, I am tempted to keep them for myself.  : )  I used the brown bead as a focal point in both pieces and accented it with gold bicones, Swarovski crystals in smoked topaz and golden shadow and also bronze Swarovski pearls. 

Here are the designs, let me know what you think: