AJE Earring Challenge Reveal , March 17

My entry for last week's Challenge:

I had read a LOT about African Designs last week, and this is highly influenced by some rustic ancient design elements I read about. Its really fascinating to see how they took pride in adorning even their armors and self protection equipments.. The ancient pictures, the weathered archeological findings all throbbed inside my head, that I had to incorporate it in atleast one of my designs.. This is what came out. What do you think? Labradorite coarse nuggets, ruby glass rondelles and heavily patinated rustic copper shields with dimples, on antiqued copper earwires. I love it.

You might wonder why I suddenly became interested in African culture? A visit to a nearby Ethiopian Resto! Yup. The pictures I saw there, the samples of jewelry on their display, the food. It all tempted me to dig a little deeper into what they are made of in the core. Happy that I took the first step towards that journey. I am on it. I just started. Its so very interesting!!

Here are few pictures of what I saw in the restaurant:

Thats all!!