CALAVERAS DE COLORES - Sugar Skulls Earrings, Day of the Dead Halloween Enamel Pearls Jewelry

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Since the CALAVERAS DE COLORES sugar skull earrings are so colorful, you just have to smile every time you look at them! Perfect jewelry for Day of the Dead or Halloween, the one of a kind earrings feature individually artisan handmade enamel sugar skull charms, teal freshwater pearls and pink Swarovski crystals. The unique cut out Dia de los Muertos skull dangles started out as copper blanks. Shiny white enamel glass powder was fused onto the front using a butane torch. To create the colorful sugar skull design, a stencil and more enamel glass powder was used. As you can see the colors are gorgeous: teal green around the eyes, pink flowers on the forehead, under the eyes and on the chin and a yellow starburst just above each eye. The upper lip of the skulls has seven vertical lines. Because the sugar skulls were individually hand enameled, they are very similar but not exactly the same, as the photos will show. The back of the charms are finished in black enamel. Despite the larger size of these earrings, the unique skull earrings are lightweight to wear.

Because the sugar skull charms are the main focal of the earrings, simple embellishments were used. Just above each skull is a rich, glowing teal green freshwater potato pearl (“potato” meaning they aren’t perfectly round) capped by copper disc spacers. Depending on the angle of the light, the color of the pearls will shift to a more blue teal. To add sparkle, a faceted Swarovski crystal bicone in a color called “light rose” pink tops the earrings. The earrings are finished with sterling silver French hooks with copper bead enhancement. Carefully designed and handmade by Catherine of Shadow Dog Designs, the CALAVERAS DE COLORES lightweight dangle earrings are perfect jewelry accessories to add to your Halloween and Day of the Dead costume and festivities. AND they are GREAT for year round wear! “Calaveras de Colores” is Spanish for “colorful skulls.”

+ Enamel sugar skulls: app 35 mm x 25 mm at widest x 1.5 mm (1.4” x 1”); handmade by Pearly Karpel
+ Teal freshwater pearls: app 10 mm
+ Swarovski crystals: faceted 4 mm “light rose” pink bicones
+ Metal: copper and sterling silver
+ Earwires: sterling silver French hooks with copper bead adornments
+ Length: app. 3.0” / 7.6 cm measured from the top curve of the sterling earwires

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