My sister Eliza made me this fabulous pair of leather earrings. They were made in beautiful colors shaped like leaves, long and layered. I feel fun, fancy and slightly exotic when I wear them. And who doesn’t need some more of that?
A few scrap pieces of leather, a nice sharp pair of scissors, some earring hooks and a pair of round nose pliers were all it took to make a mess of lovely earrings. Some are leaf-like, some maybe more like feathers. All are earthy and warm in shades of brown and black. I experimented with stitching on some of them.
There are two girls down the street who come over to hang out with Eli, play with Soren, eat homemade baked goods and do a lot of crafting in my office. They were over-the-moon for these earrings. Scissors were snipping, tiny pieces of leather were flying and there was a whole lot of happy chatter going on. The 11-yr-old made herself a pair of white leather heart earrings around which she painstaking stitched a purple border. So cute.
Since the earrings were such an easy joy to make, and since they were eagerly adored by the young-girl sector, I packaged some up as gifts for a young friend of ours who recently had a birthday. She got her own little set of leather feather earrings and I so hope she’ll feel all the fun and fancy in the world when she wears them.
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