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These are prototypes and I honestly meant to make a few more like them but for some reason I can't find the Graphite Shimmer beads I had in the original order, so I'm waiting on another shipment to arrive before I can make any flag climbers with gray or brown in them.
( Pride climbers: six-color rainbow, nonbinary, bi, and trans. )
Not my best photographic work, but I don't have a model, and I don't have a tripod, so you get me trying to hold the camera still and photograph my own ears.
I've been meaning to work these up for a while, ever since I realized that Swarovski and Preciosa made very small crystal beads in colors super close to the various colors used on pride flags. My most popular items on Etsy have been ear climbers, and most of them have been either emerald green crystal cup chain, ruby red crystal cup chain, or pride flag designs. Especially in niobium, at least for the pride ones. These are made with bronze-anodized niobium main wire, 22 gauge, and bare 28 gauge niobium wrapping wire. Hypoallergenic to the entire human species, unless you have a skin sensitivity to glass and/or the AB or shimmer coatings on some of the beads. I used three millimeter bicones; I can do up to about six, maybe seven, beads on a climber using four millimeter ones, but after that it starts getting uncomfortably long when I test them on my own ear, and the extra width is just enough of a difference to make putting on headphones or holding a phone to my ear awkward. I might see if a trans flag would work with four millimeter crystals. It'd probably look right lengthwise.
I'd originally meant to do ace pride, which is the primary reason why I ordered Graphite Shimmer, but like I said... I can't find the package. Either it didn't ship or I lost it somehow. Well, I have more coming. Also smokey topaz beads so I can do the black-brown-inclusive eight color flag, and I have two or three alternate purple options on the way, since the Purple Velvet color is rather nice but hard to distinguish from the Jet if you're wearing the climber against skin that's got anything resembling proper melanin.
I'll figure out how one goes about listing things as 'I will make these to order' on Etsy, work up one of each flag in the bronze-anodized niobium, and see who's interested in which ones.
( Pride climbers: six-color rainbow, nonbinary, bi, and trans. )
Not my best photographic work, but I don't have a model, and I don't have a tripod, so you get me trying to hold the camera still and photograph my own ears.
I've been meaning to work these up for a while, ever since I realized that Swarovski and Preciosa made very small crystal beads in colors super close to the various colors used on pride flags. My most popular items on Etsy have been ear climbers, and most of them have been either emerald green crystal cup chain, ruby red crystal cup chain, or pride flag designs. Especially in niobium, at least for the pride ones. These are made with bronze-anodized niobium main wire, 22 gauge, and bare 28 gauge niobium wrapping wire. Hypoallergenic to the entire human species, unless you have a skin sensitivity to glass and/or the AB or shimmer coatings on some of the beads. I used three millimeter bicones; I can do up to about six, maybe seven, beads on a climber using four millimeter ones, but after that it starts getting uncomfortably long when I test them on my own ear, and the extra width is just enough of a difference to make putting on headphones or holding a phone to my ear awkward. I might see if a trans flag would work with four millimeter crystals. It'd probably look right lengthwise.
I'd originally meant to do ace pride, which is the primary reason why I ordered Graphite Shimmer, but like I said... I can't find the package. Either it didn't ship or I lost it somehow. Well, I have more coming. Also smokey topaz beads so I can do the black-brown-inclusive eight color flag, and I have two or three alternate purple options on the way, since the Purple Velvet color is rather nice but hard to distinguish from the Jet if you're wearing the climber against skin that's got anything resembling proper melanin.
I'll figure out how one goes about listing things as 'I will make these to order' on Etsy, work up one of each flag in the bronze-anodized niobium, and see who's interested in which ones.
