365 pairs of earrings in 365 days

My intent was to start this personal challenge on January 1st as that would have been a neat and tidy way to manage these 365 pairs of earrings, no?  Pair one on 1/1 and pair 365  366 on 12/31.  Alas.  Life is rarely tidy enough to stay contained in those itty bitty rigid calendar squares and so, after spending the first couple, three days of 2012 in pain and then recovering from that pain, i'm starting today.  Yay!  Besides, now i just have to come up with 365 pairs.  Hey.  Small blessings abound.  You just have to be ready for 'em!

Rules of the game.  Ummm......let's not have any rules.  Instead, here are a couple of guidelines that i plan to follow for this challenge.

1.  One pair of earrings per day.  No fair stockpiling. 

I think that's it.  Sweet!

Play along if you'd like!  Start whenever.  Stop whenever.  It'll be fun!  And you'll get at least one new pair of earrings from this silliness.  Also, feel very free to make the designs i post here.  I'll include a list of supplies and some basic instructions. 

Here's pair #1.   Only 364 more to do!

Garnet is the birthstone for January so this was a no-brainer.  For days, though, i thought i had some beautifully  faceted garnet briolettes and i had this elegant design all laid out and then after the pain, reality kicked in and these were the garnets i had on hand.  So i used 'em.


Supplies:

 6 garnet beads approximately 2x3mm

 3 or 4 black headpins 2.5"/ 24 gauge

 2 black earwires

round nose pliers

flat nose or chain nose pliers

cutters 

Technique:  closed wrapped loops

                                                              
How fun!!!!  Now if i can just get this blogging business down to a manageable time, i'll be doing swell!  See you tomorrow!