Changing my mind...

No market today but guess who was bolt awake at 3:00 a.m. and drinking coffee by 3:30? My pal Lynn came by to work on a necklace using the turquoise I'd given her for a birthday present back in January. That inspired me to get stop watching Lie to Me (lovelovelove Tim Roth, whoo hoo) and do something productive. Not to mention right around when Lynn pulled up, I got one of those annoying popup messages asking if I was aware that in the past 48 hours someone using this computer scarfed up 75% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. Uh, ye-ahhh, that would be me. I just signed up for Netflix. I think this is gonna be a huge mistake.

In between lashings of homemade soup, hummus and blue corn tortilla chips and apple strudel with cheddar cheese, I messed around stringing and restringing the two necklaces I started the other day.

"Does this look okay?"

"Nnnnn... needs something here."

"What about this?"

"Nnnnn... what about changing that?"

And so it went for hours.


Raw amethyst focal, amethyst rondelles, high-cut citrine, melon-cut crystal rondelles, 100-year-old Venetian glass seed beads, pewter findings, 21" long, $79:

Kingman turquoise, amethyst rounds and rondelles, pewter and silver-plated findings, glass seed beads, 21" in length, $45:

Before

Finished necklace

For information on either of these necklaces, their availability or perhaps you require a different length, please email me for details. Shipping and handling are extra. I take PayPal.

Thanks for looking!

More guy chokers, a wooden skull & a moonstone wrap bracelet

More guy chokers for the market tomorrow, variations on a theme...

I always find it interesting how much the character of something changes depending on what surrounds it. I guess that goes for people as well as things. 

Also, I finally put a button on this poor neglected moonstone wrap bracelet.

I'd originally made this on 2mm black Greek leather by default, if only because the wholesaler didn't have any 1.5mm at the time I bought the 2mm. I just got some of the 1.5mm and I really prefer it. It's got enough body w/o being too bulky. I will be making a pile more bracelets now.

The bracelet is about 7-1/2". I'll have to double-check tomorrow. The moonstones have more colour than shows in the photos.

The chokers vary from $8 to $15 (I'll post the prices tomorrow of what doesn't sell -- thinking positively at the moment here), the bracelet is $35, shipping/handling is $5 pretty much to anywhere in Canada and the US.

Thanks for looking!