Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Wild Side

The big cats have always intrigued me - they are so beautiful!  As an adolescent I liked to copy (draw) pictures of them.  I always had to get the spots and stripes exact!

Nowadays, I am always a sucker for animal prints - especially leopard, jaguar, tiger and cheetah.  I have a couple of animal print coats, animal print skirts, and a bunch of animal print fabric.

Some of my fellow "Smooshers" have taken inspiration from the beautiful big cats and have created some wonderful beads and jewelry!

A pair of exotic leopard print earrings from 2 Good Claymates.I think these could be casual or dressy.  A girl can never have to many earrings!

Tiger stripe beads from Clay It Again.
Make your own! For starters,  I'm thinking the square beads would make cute earrings. . . Did I mention, you can never have too many earrings?




You can never have too many bracelets either!  Especially bangles. A bengal bangle bracelet (say that 10 time fast) from Gingerbells







A big and bold  leopard spot bead is the focal for this funky necklace from Into the Dawn

10 comments:

  1. Gorgeous pieces! And I agree you can never have too many earrings!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I don't think there is such a thing as too many earrings. Beautiful pieces!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thanks Haffina, Dulce Tesoros and Coltpixy for stopping by my blog. Smooshers are doing so many beautiful things, I had a hard time choosing what to post!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Gorgeous, gorgeous pieces, awesome post! I have always been awed by the big cats, such beautiful majestic creatures, these pieces really capture their essence.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Great pieces. I'm not too fond of animal print usually but I think you've swayed me!

    ReplyDelete
  6. I also love animal print esp the big cats...gorgeous. My kids are always making fun of me and have said if I appear in public in some tiger skin etc they'll disown me!! Great post.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Desert Rubble, Dee and Imprintcreations - Thanks for visiting my blog :)

    And thank-you everyone for the kind words - it is very encouraging!

    ReplyDelete