Wow, what a start to the year! First, Granddaughter’s Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma recurred, and she’s currently undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Next my husband was diagnosed with a mysenteric sarcoma, and has just returned home after having a 7 pound (no exaggeration) tumor removed, and is cancer free, but very weak. Needless to say, jewelry has been a bit low on my screen so far, but now we’re “normalizing,” whatever that is, and it’s time to get back to work.
Cute little thing with lots of possibilities
This is the first thing I made this year. I’m trying to gear toward the under $35 market this year. I’m also thinking of doing simpler 18-20 inch necklaces with handmade chain. Since I reorganized my bead drawers, I’ve discovered that I really need to start making things with all those pearls. I have 9 trays of them in all sorts of colors and sizes! I’m just going to pull them all out, and see what happens.
I love working with wire. It’s fun to figure out how to put things together without solder, especially, as I am very bad at soldering. People tell me that when soldering, more is not better, but I just can’t seem to get it.
After I work a bit with this style, I want to work with the new beads I bought at the San Mateo International Gem Show; I just wish I’d written down what they were! Pricey little things, and the name was so common (perhaps topaz?) I thought surely I’d remember. I got the supplier’s card, but no joy from either their web site or email. Any one heard of Bead Palace?
Anyone know what these are?
I also found some beautiful faceted Beryl beads, and Just received an order for a necklace using them. Now that’s how it’s supposed to work!
Now, back to the jewelry bench….
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Sapphire was my second guess. Actually, it was my first guess, but I then rethought, because seems I should have remembered sapphire. Maybe the fact that I was shopping the day after my husband’s surgery had a little to do with the muddled brain. I would have canceled the trip except that another person was counting on me, and it turned out fine. Well, except for the fact that I can’t remember stuff.
I’m really sorry to hear about your granddaughter and husband too. That must be very distressing indeed.
The beads look like sapphires to me – yellow, pink, blue and green, and if they were pricey then sapphires would fit the bill from that point of view too.
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