Jewelry making #19
Posted by
Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, October 29, 2005
1:19 AM (Eastern)
Heh heh...so I'm waiting for the glue to "cure." I think it should set overnight before you pull on it too much. Gluing a bead in the back though, it is in a place that doesn't get too much direct stress.
This 24" piece is constructed of two of my favorite colors...deep red and blue-grey. The deep red is key. In this one, it's the color of cheap red wine...deep but clear rather than the smoky tinge of, ah, good red wine.
The blue-grey beads if you look at them closely, seem to have swirls of the blue-grey on the outer layer of the bead. I tried scratching them to see if the color would come off, but I don't think it comes off.
These are accented with a few clear small round beads, that's it.
What I'm trying to do...and people who know me from the beauty forums will recognize this behavior...is try to build a sort of jewelry wardrobe. By this I mean, more pieces, for me, is not better. I heartily dislike clutter, programming is all about clutter and reducing it to something manageable, so what I am after is always the fewest variables, but not so few as to make more work.
So I had to have a deep red piece and something with grey in it, and a turquoise piece. I'm actually eyeing a bracelet I made for my daughter. lol! This is comprised of the blue-grey beads (round), plus some similarly colored beads (these are less grey, a tad more blue) that look like raindrops...not the familiar tear-shaped ones, but raindrops sitting, say, on the deck. And then some truly beautiful beads that have blue and a sort of gold/brown thing in them. This is in, not a symmetrical pattern, but rather a repeating pattern, so you end up with a raindrop next to a round blue-grey bead where you were expecting two identical beads. That's the part I like best.
It's the eccentricity of these three pieces.... But I have a pile of stuff that I need to restring. One is this cool, red, Chinese thing...I have two of them actually.
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