So, last year, I worked with a fair amount of turquoise. Certainly I like the color blue, and turquoise IS my birthstone, but I've never designed much with it 'til now. Turquoise comes in a variety of blues, and these stones are more like the robin's egg (or Tiffany box) blue of the high quality material that comes out of the Sleeping Beauty mines in Arizona.
I made this great lentil-bead necklace for the Arts League sale. I bought a strand of graduated beads (they overlap one another just slightly, by design) and connected them with a sterling silver clasp. Turquoise is expensive because it's so hard to mine, and while the bead strand I purchased was pricey, the work required to string the materials didn't take overly long. As a result, I could sell the necklace for a very reasonable price, for turquoise.
Price: $46.
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