Happy New Year to all.

A new year, and a new start to an old blog. The Vintage Cookie is renovating her old house - there will be occasional posts about this on-going project.. The Earring a Day project will be re-started. And other topics of interest will be explored. So join us for a fun 2013.

Another Disney Bracelet into Mickey Mouse Earrings

These links were an elastic bracelet for a little girl (way too skinny for my wrists). I rewired a pair of them into these earrings:

DIY Disney Princess Earrings Anyone Can Make

My sister had the inspiration these earrings - a little girl's Disney Princess charm bracelet sold for $9.95 at the Bibbity Boppity Boutique in FantasyLand at Disneyland.

A few minutes with my trusty pliers and a roll of 20g wire and we have 6 Princesses as earrings. If you don't want to make your own ear wires, you can buy ear wires at Michael's or JoAnns, or your favorite bead store.

My sister and I wore these to Disneyland last evening. She picked the classic pair of Aurora and Cinderella (center top). I chose the re-launch Princesses, Belle (far left) and Jasmine (lower right). We wore them to great effect and many compliments from Cast Members.

Cubic Zirconium Pave Bead Earrings

Vacation continues -- with more beautiful beads, presented simply. On vacation I have plenty of time to shop for lovely beads, but I am not at home with my jewelry workshop to hand. What I have is wire and 3 pairs of pliers.

Here I present two beads covered in super-sparkly cubic zirconia. The beads were expensive (for me) at $4.00 apiece.

I have used wrapped drops on these earrings. The wire is gunmetal finished copper wire from Artistic Wire. I like the slightly "steampunk" feel of the gunmetal finish and the spiral wire wrap. I think it suits the green color of the beads.

I am now back up to date on my earrings. I can keep up with making an earring a day, but finding a chance to photograph them, upload and edit the photos, and write the blogs is a bit more of a challenge.

Vacation Catch Up - Two pairs of Crystal Drops

These elegant earrings are beads from a crystal bracelet. The bracelets were a dollar a piece, so I bought a couple -- one to wear as a bracelet, and one for matching earrings. I have enough beads for more than a dozen pairs of earrings, but here are the first two. I added two chalcedony rectangular beads on one pair - I love how the colors match, but everything else about the stones contrasts.

Whimsical Acrylic Crystal Earrings

Another pair of vacation earrings. I made these with acrylic crystals drops from Beadshines, (in downtown L.A.) The drops are super light and they catch the light very nicely. I wore them to Disneyland. They have a sort of "punk princess" vibe.

All the wire work -- ear wires and jump rings -- are made from 20 g silver plated copper wire.

Blue bead earrings - simple and effective

I wear these simple earrings all the time. Nothing fancy -- although I do like the bright red seed beads as separators. All the beads come from Fire Mountain Gems.