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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Thursday, July 22, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
3:17 PM (Pacific)
Wo...this is the last one for a while.
This is from a Japanese gift shop in Albany, California (right outside Berkeley). It is this one... Matsu Fine Natural Bedding & Gifts.
Anyhow, whenever I have a little pocket money to spend, I treat myself by going to this shop.
They have lots and lots of little, cute Japanese items, like little baby-shaped pendants and statues, stuff in the shape of cats, Buddhas, little silk purses, beautiful scarves...I dare not buy one of these yet, they're far too delicate for the SAHM lifestyle *g*...and then these bracelets.
I actually found this shop years ago when I was looking for a particular kind of paper lantern. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw these lovely red bead bracelets. I remembered the bracelets and returned to the shop about a month ago to get my turtle bracelet:
The red-bead one I just got is, to the very best of my determination, glass. It is just red glass. But it is beautiful red glass. The beads are each imperfect. They're also put together in such a way...you can tell it's not mass-produced.
They had some other glass bracelets I was eyeing. It's the colors. They have ones with clear beads with glass ribbons of color inside. There was a spring green one, a pale pink one, a vivid yellow with a touch of orange, then a deep orange one.
I would have gotten the yellow one, I think. The color just jumps out at you.
--J.
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