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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: Latest projects
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posted by Colleen Shirazi,
October 27, 2006
at 11:51 AM (Pacific)
I got my Fire Mountain Gems order today. That was fast. I opened it up...everything was to spec.
The only thing I need now are earring wires and I plan on ordering those today from a different company (I'm picky about those).
On a sour note...I was packing some stuff to take to someone else. I had bought two feet of chain from Baubles and Beads in Berkeley...let me say I've been there several times and bought quite a lot of stuff before.
Since I was packing it for someone else, I had to measure and cut some other chain that I'd bought from another store. Just out of curiosity, I measured the chain that I'd bought from Baubles and Beads, and found it short by a quarter-inch.
This was supposed to be a one-foot length. The other one-foot piece, I hadn't even bothered measuring before using some of it, so I don't know if that one was short as well.
I'm not going to get in my car, drive to Berkeley, and haggle over a quarter-inch of chain. But I'm not shopping there anymore.
Anyhow here's what I'm up to.
Clockwise from upper left: citrine bangle with citrine clasp. Citrine earrings on gold-filled chain. Freshwater pearl bracelet with faceted onyx clasp. Freshwater pearl and gold-filled chain earrings.
I'm going to make a matching necklace for the pearl bracelet. In fact I got the clasp for it today in my FMG order...it's an onyx cabochon. They didn't have a faceted onyx and I figured the cabochon would look nice with a necklace (going to be a single strand of the same pearls).
I got the inspiration for these earrings from Target! They're made on a jig obviously. The top loop isn't closed (good design, thanks Target) and the other end is simply wrapped.
Hi! I dismantled the rose quartz and garnet necklace here:
It was a nice enough design but I ended up never wearing it. Kept three of the four-leaf-clover pieces from it...one in front and two in back (I seldom discard any design 100%, usually I keep something from the original).
Now it looks nice with the earrings, which I'd been considering dismantling earlier. Complex earrings go best with simple necklaces, and vice versa. I know, I know...
Over the next few days I'll be finishing up some pieces, thanks to my FMG order. Lessee...
I'll need to redo most, if not all, of my blue lace agate necklace. I love the design (it's spare but that only makes the blue stones pop more), but my wrapping on that piece is not so great. (It's the same one in the pic above.)
Going to match a matching bracelet for it; I have enough stones left from the strand.
Going to redo the carnelian bracelet pictured earlier. I think something simpler would be nicer (say, just carnelian and gold).
Of course there is the pearl necklace...it's already strung, just needs that onyx clasp.
Need to add a clasp to the citrine, yellow opal and agate necklace you can see some in the first two pics. Still debating whether I like the design or not.
Then there are the odd "this and that"'s...adding crimp covers here and there, switching out clasps, yadda yadda...
When I get my earring wires, my life will be complete. :)
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