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Studio Saturday with Erin Siegel

November 3, 2012
Welcome to Studio
Saturday! Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into
their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related
question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive
we offer a free prize each week to bribe you to use that keyboard.
The following week we choose a random winner.

This week’s winner is Leah Curtis! Congratulations! You have won a bead set and copper rings from Gaea! Send Gaea an email with your address and she will get your prize out to you soon!
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This week we visit the studio of
Erin Siegel of Erin Siegel Jewelry
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Today, I’m participating in an earring blog hop hosted by jewelry designer, Amy Freeland of Copper Diem. Amy has organized this earring-making hop to benefit a non-profit organization called:

Ears To You provides earrings to women under-going treatment for any type of cancer. Those women that have gone through chemo-therapy treatments will tell you that a pair of earrings can do wonders to lift a girl’s spirit and make her feel loved, special and beautiful during such a difficult time, especially after losing all her hair.

The purpose of this blog hop is for each participant to make a collection of earrings to donate to the Ears To You organization. I’m an earring girl myself and I adore making them. So, I jumped at the chance to create something with healing love for my fellow sisters dealing with this disease. I created these 5 pairs of earrings specifically for the lovely recipients of the Ears To You program. All my earrings are made using hand-forged copper components from one of my very favorite artisans of all-time, Shannon LeVart of Miss Fickle Media.

“Serenity Lotus” 
 
“Healing Knots”
“Higher Power”
“We Are Connected“
“Warm Embrace”
I’m so grateful that I found out about Ears To You. It is a fantastic opportunity for me to use my jewelry-making skills to give back. I’ll take almost any excuse to create jewelry, but when it’s for a worthy cause like this, it just makes the reason that much more meaningful and full-filling.
Our hop host, Amy Freeland is one of the most compassionate and generous jewelry artists I’ve ever come across. She donates jewelry and a percentage of all her Etsy sales to many charities and non-profits on a consistent basis to help raise awareness. Her commitment to giving to these causes is awe-inspiring. She has even developed a structure for her jewelry donations categorized by color called  “The Compassionate Colors Project”. Wow, It’s a genius idea! You can read more about this concept on her blog and even join her facebook group if you enjoy giving your jewelry to charity and want to connect with others that enjoy the same.

Have you donated your jewelry, profits or jewelry-making skills to a charity or nonprofit? What is your favorite organization to give to? 

Do you know of any charities accepting jewelry and/or bead donations? Please share with us!
Leave
a comment answering any of these questions and you will be entered for a
chance to win a digital copy of my Bohemian Knotted Earrings TUTORIAL. The PDF file will be sent to the winner via
email once I receive the winner’s email address.
This is a blog hop! 
I can’t wait to see everyone’s earrings! Please join me and visit the other artists donating earrings and participating in the 

Ears To You blog hop: