Yellow Acholi Bead Fair Trade Earrings

These earrings are something special. The large bicone beads are handmade from recycled paper by women in the Acholi Quarters slum in the northern region of Uganda. They tear thin strips from magazines, roll them up and coat them in varnish.

It is a Fair Trade business and you can find more information here - http://acholibeads.com/

I've taken beads that contain mostly yellow and mostly white, and strung them on assymetric lengths of beading wire so there's a slight natural curve to them, i.e., they deliberately don't hang straight.. Small pearl glass beads have been added as well as a primrose yellow Swarovski Crystal at the top. The hooks are, as always, solid sterling silver.

I think they're beautiful and you should buy them, especially as I've priced them to sell in the hope that I will have to buy more beads to make more earrings and so help the Acholi tribeswomen of Uganda.

Price: £8.50    

Green Acholi Bead Fair Trade Earrings

These earrings are something special. The large bicone beads are handmade from recycled paper by women in the Acholi Quarters slum in the northern region of Uganda. They tear thin strips from magazines, roll them up and coat them in varnish.

It is a Fair Trade business and you can find more information here - http://acholibeads.com/

I've taken beads that contain mostly green, and strung them on assymetric lengths of beading wire so there's a slight natural curve to them, i.e., they deliberately don't hang straight.. Small green glass beads have been added as well as a green Swarovski Crystal at the top. The hooks are, as always, solid sterling silver.

I think they're beautiful and you should buy them, especially as I've priced them to sell in the hope that I will have to buy more beads to make more earrings and so help the Acholi tribeswomen of Uganda.

Price: £8.50    

Blue Acholi Bead Fair Trade Earrings

These earrings are something special. The large bicone beads are handmade from recycled paper by women in the Acholi Quarters slum in the northern region of Uganda. They tear thin strips from magazines, roll them up and coat them in varnish.

It is a Fair Trade business and you can find more information here - http://acholibeads.com/

I've taken blue and white beads and strung them on assymetric lengths of beading wire so there's a slight natural curve to them, i.e., they deliberately don't hang straight.. Small purple and pink glass beads have been added as well as a blue Swarovski Crystal at the top. The hooks are, as always, solid sterling silver.

I think they're beautiful and you should buy them, especially as I've priced them to sell in the hope that I will have to buy more beads to make more earrings and so help the Acholi tribeswomen of Uganda.

Price: £8.50    

Coral and Pearl Earrings

The scanner has made these earrings much more orange than they naturally are - I tried to alter the colour to some semblance of reality but it's not really worked. Think Coral Pink going slightly towards the orange scale and that's what these are. That doesn't help, does it? Sorry.

Hooks are solid sterling silver and the flat diamond shapes are fossil sponge coral. The freshwater pearls are very pale peachy-pink.

Price: £5.00    

Zebra Jasper and Pearl Earrings

Zebra Jasper has lovely stripy black and white/grey markings (hence the name, really) and these beads are quite a nice size - not too big, not too small. I've popped a good sized white freshwater pearl on top and a weeny Jet black Swarovski Crystal on top for added bling. The hooks are solid sterling silver.

Price: £7.00