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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:22 PM (Eastern)
Mmmmm... Lessee. I have about 6 designs that I am satisfied with, now. By "6 designs" I mean that the spacer beads (I use 4 different kinds for each piece) and side beads (6 or 8 depending on the bead size...or else a combination of 2 beads, repeated 6 times), and two front beads, are reasonably fixed.
For the pendant, it can be one of those Chinese beads--that is my favorite. It's a round clear glass bead, with a picture inside. I've used ones with a pink lotus, a red lotus, a yellow, green or blue bird, a goldfish design, a ladybug, a blue butterfly...there's one with a bald old man in it but I haven't used that for anything. I make the pendants out of these beads, it is very tricky because the wire wrap functions to keep the beads together (I put a round bead on top of this bead and a small round one under it). If you get the wire too close to the top bead, you stand a chance of shaving off the glass when you close the wrap. If it's too far away, then the beads won't hold together properly. It can take me up to 3 times to get it right.
Another nice pendant is a glass heart with little colored designs in it. Another one...mmm...I have a yin-yang cloisonne bead. It's the round Chinese ones though, that defy your expectations.
I'm in the "wearing design" phase now. To me this is very important. Many times you will buy jewelry that looks nice, and then you end up never wearing it. And then there are pieces that always look good. It's not always easy to define.
I suppose I can refer back to my years of cosmetic experience. It sounds lame, but hey, how much money is spent every year on cosmetics? Isn't it billions with a "b"? I invested some time in figuring out what works. Now I can always look reasonably good; I don't need to think about it much anymore.
So...I have bought many a time, a cosmetic item that looks great--in the package. Whether or not I'll be wearing that same cosmetic item next year...or over the next five or ten years (assuming it's still being made rolls eyes)...depends on that hard-to-put-your-finger-on factor, that "it" factor.
A piece of jewelry therefore, even a precious one...but particularly a "costume" one where the value is not intrinsic...has to have that "it" factor. It takes me days to figure out whether or not a given piece has it.
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