In a state of excitement for color theory

Lately I've really been focusing on color theory. I've also been using loop fringe. Blue and orange are complementary on the color wheel, so my challenge was to make something based in blue and orange that DIDN'T look terrible (I have difficulties with complementary colors). One trick I learned from reading all those books on color was to use multiple shades of complementaries, plus a neighboring color.
I made a pair of earrings first, then a matching necklace.

I decided that orange was going to be the main point of the earrings, with yellow as the neighboring colour, so I used a 'backbone' of matte, almost-cobalt blue cubes to stitch the fringe through. I used 5 shades of orange and 2 shades of yellow, in 3 finishes. Then I stitched silverlined light-cobalt 15s through the blue cubes, so the backbone had a visual element (the silver lining) in common with the fringe.
For the earrings, I folded up loops of fringe at the top and bottom. On one side, I added a large pearl, and on the other, a jumpring for the ear hoop.

For the necklace, I ran a simple blue satin cord through the top half of the loops, gathering the loops like ruffles. The resulting necklace slightly resembles an ancient collar, perhaps Egyptian or Minoan.

They just keep coming!

After the darn learning experience which resulted in the gratifying 'Disco Lemonade' necklace, I've gotten very enthusiastic about the dodecahedron beaded bead! It's a LOT easier to make when using beads that have a hole through the center, as opposed to through the top like the teardrops. Far easier to keep track of where you are in the beadwork, how many stitches are left, etc.

Usually when I get all enthusiastic about a beading idea, I make perhaps two more of a similar type, then end up making some other piece in my queue of ideas. But after that first bead, I immediately started the next, this time substituting roundish 4mm orange/pink faceted glass in place of the teardrops, with orange, pink and lavender embellishment beads, stringing the finished bead onto a simpler necklace of lemon-drop glass beads. I still used a core bead. Feeling fantastical, I named it 'Citrus Lips'.

Then I began to stray farther from the pre-designed pattern, fortifying and accenting the many holes in the beaded bead, eliminating the need for a core bead, and strategically using colours to play up the shape of the bead. The first one was in glossy and matte black, accented with hot pink.

The second time I made this type of bead, I used transparent faceted orange glass, accented by clear citron yellow to open up the feel of the bead. I call this my 'Hot Citrus' bead, and it reminds me of all that CSI: Miami I used to watch--the overall quality of the show may be questionable, but it was undeniably one of the top three most beautiful shows on television.

In the third bead, entitled 'Hot Raspberry', I used sparkly black beads and the same hot pink as in the first bead, eliminating the matte black and resulting in a mostly-pink bead with hints of black peeking out.

I left the glass behind for some shiny hematite rounds in the latest iteration of this design. Hematite looks a bit like black silver, or iron cleaned up and decked out for the prom, so I paired it with matte black and shiny silver accenting the holes. It makes me think of supervillains in their ominous but oh-so-cool supersuits which must ALWAYS have something glowing. The finished bead looks like black, but the hematite bridges the gap between the shiny silver and the dark black, giving it a hint of sophistication.