Beads and related stuff

[redbird]

I got myself over to Metalliferous today. I now have a couple of simple silver necklace chains, suited for wearing pendants and such on. I have some sterling silver ear wires and pins. And I have beads.

I have a half dozen pretty glass beads, selected individually from a large tray of different sorts. I have a string of amethysts. I have a string of malachite, and one of green aventurine. I have two strings of garnets (they were the last each of two slightly different styles, and she gave me a discount to avoid having to hang a single string.

I have spent quite a bit of money, and suspect that when I sit down to earring-making (which may wait until the June BotMo arrive) it's going to be heavy on green and purple. (The garnets are quite small.) I'll have spares, because I don't want everything I make to look the same, but I wanted these colors and shapes.

Comments

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Yummy!

Another green that works well with garnet is African turquoise. Like this:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/caprine/pic/0001qqpw/)
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[goldcube.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I nearly went to Metalliferous yesterday but ran out of time. It's a great place. I'm especially thrilled with being able to get hugely long lengths of interesting chains since I don't like short necklaces.