When I was a kid, I remember my mom buying brick stitched earrings from the tourist shops locally, or from local craft fairs,she loved them, the long lovely dangle of them. Sometimes they had porcupine quills in the fringe, sometimes not.
After I started beading, a friend I worked with asked me to re-create a pair of earrings for her, that were bugles and seedbeads, except she wanted gemstone chips in the fringe. I made a pair for myself that my mother saw and loved, so I gave them to her.
Every since then, I think of my bugle and seedbead earrings as being mom's earrings. These look truly elegant in black with angled fringe.
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