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Okay, further to the post about being addicted to jewelery-making:
1) The fossil, onyx and jade sphere beads from Sassy's are bigger than the sodalite, turquoise and aventurine sphere beads at Michael's. (By about 1mm/diameter). They're also significantly more expensive.
That combined with the fact that Michael's has red (dyed) shell chips and (eventually, probably) citrine chips as well, it will make *much* more sense to make my pride-themed rope-necklaces using chips from Michael's than using a mixture of spheres from both stores.
This means I'll have to check into Sassy Bead's return policy. Yes, I could probably find *something* to do with the jade and fossil (red) beads, if not the yellow onyx. At the same time, returning one of the fossil strands, as well as the jade and the onyx, and the remaining strand of mahogany obsidian chunks (left over from a necklace I made today) would (A) get them out of my bead bag, thus giving me a little more space to pack everything up, and (B) would (ideally) get me my $28 back - which wouldn't be anything to sneeze at.
I shall check out the receipt tomorrow, I think. :-)
That said, I *have* had a fun day of jewelery making today. :-)
I made Goodies for all of the Birthday Babies for the party tomorrow. (They are getting other stuff in addition to said baubles, but jewelery will be part of their gifts).
I'm particularly proud of one of them, but I can't tell you about it now because the recipient may read this before the present gets opened.
Mwahahaha. :-D
I also made a necklace - red shell chips, hematite and black pearls - which I'm calling "vampire" because of the colour scheme. :-) It occurs to me that I could sell it for $12 and still turn a bit of a profit. :-) (Now all I need is a place to sell this stuff *at*. ;-)
Hehehe. I have Ideas...
( Take a Look... )
Trying to come up with:
"Autumn" (Princess length):
Chips of red jasper + spheres of fancy jasper + hematite spheres. Maybe...
"Winter" (Princess length):
Possibly... Steel spheres + moonstone chips + white shell chips(?) + turquoise chips/spheres...
( What I've Already Made for Myself )
:-)
Anyway, aside from choir practice (much more successful this week, though we're still going flat), that's been my day. :-)
Paul and I are listening to Apocalyptica's new album ("Worlds Collide"). Not surprisingly, I really like it. :-D The cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" is beautiful, as are "Grace" and "Stroke". I'm quite impressed. :-D
I'm going to go and read some Neil Gaiman now. Probably American Gods, but possibly Anansi Boys. :-)
not sure if I'm going to Brunch tomorrow. I've got Chores to deal with, instead. ;-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-D
1) The fossil, onyx and jade sphere beads from Sassy's are bigger than the sodalite, turquoise and aventurine sphere beads at Michael's. (By about 1mm/diameter). They're also significantly more expensive.
That combined with the fact that Michael's has red (dyed) shell chips and (eventually, probably) citrine chips as well, it will make *much* more sense to make my pride-themed rope-necklaces using chips from Michael's than using a mixture of spheres from both stores.
This means I'll have to check into Sassy Bead's return policy. Yes, I could probably find *something* to do with the jade and fossil (red) beads, if not the yellow onyx. At the same time, returning one of the fossil strands, as well as the jade and the onyx, and the remaining strand of mahogany obsidian chunks (left over from a necklace I made today) would (A) get them out of my bead bag, thus giving me a little more space to pack everything up, and (B) would (ideally) get me my $28 back - which wouldn't be anything to sneeze at.
I shall check out the receipt tomorrow, I think. :-)
That said, I *have* had a fun day of jewelery making today. :-)
I made Goodies for all of the Birthday Babies for the party tomorrow. (They are getting other stuff in addition to said baubles, but jewelery will be part of their gifts).
I'm particularly proud of one of them, but I can't tell you about it now because the recipient may read this before the present gets opened.
Mwahahaha. :-D
I also made a necklace - red shell chips, hematite and black pearls - which I'm calling "vampire" because of the colour scheme. :-) It occurs to me that I could sell it for $12 and still turn a bit of a profit. :-) (Now all I need is a place to sell this stuff *at*. ;-)
Hehehe. I have Ideas...
( Take a Look... )
Trying to come up with:
"Autumn" (Princess length):
Chips of red jasper + spheres of fancy jasper + hematite spheres. Maybe...
"Winter" (Princess length):
Possibly... Steel spheres + moonstone chips + white shell chips(?) + turquoise chips/spheres...
( What I've Already Made for Myself )
:-)
Anyway, aside from choir practice (much more successful this week, though we're still going flat), that's been my day. :-)
Paul and I are listening to Apocalyptica's new album ("Worlds Collide"). Not surprisingly, I really like it. :-D The cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" is beautiful, as are "Grace" and "Stroke". I'm quite impressed. :-D
I'm going to go and read some Neil Gaiman now. Probably American Gods, but possibly Anansi Boys. :-)
not sure if I'm going to Brunch tomorrow. I've got Chores to deal with, instead. ;-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-D
