Moral Support Day

A bit of background: My Mother has been taking classes to get a desktop publishing degree at a local college. I used to go help her with her computer classes and writing papers when she first started. Well, she has completely surpassed my basic knowledge of computers and especially Microsoft Excel! Oh my, the things she has to do with formulas and applying macros and all that other stuff flew over my head last semester or so.
Now when she is having trouble with homework or getting stressed about working and school and deadlines for submitting her papers, I can't do much but provide moral support! Well, that and supply some junk food! :) I did manage to take my copper wire and some beads over with me last time I went to spend the afternoon loaded down with sweet and salty snacks.
I have had the seafoamy green melon beads for quite some time. Bottom pic. They are from DJBeads.com I just wire wrapped some bead segments with some loops and hooked them together. Matching earrings with some pretty bead caps, which I think were also from the same supplier.
The more teal looking beads with a coppery-gold wash on them were something I think I found at Jo-Ann's in my early beady days. I had a ton of them, can't remember if I bought them alone or in a kit of some sort. I do like the way they made up. The beads have a square style, a round and a disk shape with nice large glass seeds, probably a size 6/0 ish to go with them in a nice teal color. I paired these with some copper findings I had on hand and they all turned out pretty nice. I think I've hung onto these beads thinking I'd get some gold colored something to use with them. I'm just not much on gold plated anything, and even gold-filled is too expensive for my blood at the moment. So, copper looked a lot nicer than I thought it would. I'm pleased with the result. So, I had plenty of choices for earring shapes. I made two pair. One with the square beads and a fan shaped finding and another with the fan shape at the top and chains ending in round beads. A little danglier than usual, but I thought it was a nice evening type look!