Cranberry Pearl and Garnet Matched Set

I've been working with pearls again for the last few months, and I came up with this pearl and garnet necklace with matching earrings. The pearls are top-drilled baroque coin pearls dyed a beautiful cranberry color. I've spaced them out using roughly faceted garnets.










The matching earrings use the same garnet beads, along with sterling spacers and potato-shaped (i.e., round, but not perfectly spherical) cranberry colored pearls.

These types of earrings usually sell pretty well for me; they're sweet and the price is right.



Necklace: $38 (I think...)
Earrings: $10

Green Glass Toggle Bracelet

This is a braclet made of decorated green glass beads. The color of the glass reminds me of bottle glass.



I don't know that I can call these Venetian Wedding Cake beads.















My understanding of those beads is that they're more highly decorated with 3-D glass (lampworked with a torch). Still, I think the details are very pretty.



Someone else thought so, too, as this bracelet sold quickly during the sale.

Price $16.

Doorstopper of a Stone

Look
At
That
Giant
Emerald!

Ok, so it's not exactly an emerald the way we generall think about emeralds. Apparently, this 57,500 carat, 25 lbs., beauty is enhanced (dyed) green beryl. Now, beryl is, indeed, the mineral that emerald comes from (emerald is a rare form of beryl) but not all beryl is rare or valuable. If this stone is actually enhanced green beryl, then it's a kind of "emerald light" as I understand it. But, it's suspected to be white beryl, dyed a strong green, and not green beryl, or traditional emerald.

Which may be just as well...how'd you ever make this thing into a ring?

Art Glass Toggle Bracelet

And here's the delightful matching bracelet, of course!



I used the same art glass beads, and paired them with silvery-clear smaller spacer beads.




A silver-plated toggle finishes the look.

Price $16

Art Glass Earrings

I bought a number of these beads and made a set of earrings and bracelet with them.


I love the color that streaks through the clear glass--the patterning makes me think of the designer Missoni and the primary colors make me think of the artist Mondrian.




I picked out the royal blue swirl in the glass and highlighted it with a small royal blue bicone also made of glass. The headpins and earwire are sterling silver






































Love them!

Price: $10.

Bronze Glass Disc Bracelet

I'm going to post photos of all of the bracelets I made for the last holiday sale here, mostly because my blog is my source of record. I like knowing what I made when, what I offered when, and what I sold, when. And for how much!



This bracelet sold quickly, which was great. The glass is a rich bronze color and I guess brown is still popular, eh?

Price: $16.

Light Up 2012!

This holiday season, I strung Christmas lights up (outside) for the very first time in my life!



This is the way the lights look reflected in my neighbor's window.

It was very exciting and, in its own way, a crafty endeavor. Here are some shots of the icicle lights on my balcony.



I had to wrap the 2 strings around the stone finials a number of times because I really couldn't gauge the amount of cord I needed. Back and forth, back and forth. It took 18 feet of lights and I think it looks beautiful. How it's gonna look when I start taking it down I cannot say...