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Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 1 year ago.
It's all Diana's fault. I was at Knit Night working on the Shawl-That-Never-Ends, when she started teaching the person next to me how to spin on a drop spindle. It looked so cool! I was sucked in immediately. I went...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 1 year ago.
and I am very sad. http://www.asharewarelife.com/2010/05/inquisitor.html When she was a young cat, she would play Fetch. Lately, when I was in bed she would sleep at my head, switching sides if I wasn't facing the right way. When I sat...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 1 year ago.
Knitting. I'm mildly obsessed at the moment. Everything listed here for sale still is for sale. If you have any trouble, please let me know. Thanks!
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
I have three pieces to photograph and post, and I need to finish going through all of 2006's pieces & put them on sale, but I haven't been doing any of this. Instead, I've been reading up a storm (while...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be going through all of my unsold jewelry from 2006 and cutting the prices. If you see something from 2006 that I haven't gotten to yet (click on the Archives link in the right-hand...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
Most pearls are formed when nacre is deposited around a small irritant. Keshi pearls, however, lack the central nucleus and tend to be flat rather than rounded. Being pure nacre, they tend to be highly lustrous. (You can see my...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
Here's some gorgeous rainbow obsidian for you. This is a really good batch: just look at that rainbow effect when the sun hits the beads! I'm a sucker for that square diamond shape. The diamonds measure between 20 and 21mm...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
The large black beads are 10mm blackstone, and the smaller are 4mm onyx. I love the contrast between the matte blackstone and the polished onyx! I strung them with sterling silver wave tube beads, finishing with a sterling silver lobster...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
The three large black flower-shaped beads are lava rock. Cool! I bought the round matte blackstone beads to go with them. The lava rock beads are 25mm across (about 1 inch), and the blackstone beads are 10mm in diameter. The...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
The lantern-shaped beads were sold to me as black fire agate, but it is actually agate that's been made to crackle & then treated with black dye. I like it a lot, but if you want to see real fire...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
I found these drusy beads at a local bead store. The crystals on the surface are very fine and sparkly! The largest bead measures about 20x25mm. I used gold-filled wire to link the drusy beads with small black agate nugget...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
Druse is a coating of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral. Drusy beads are beginning to be more available and this is my first experiment with them. The sparkling crystal coating is on one side only,...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 2 years ago.
I should have posted this bracelet earlier, but I only got it photographed this month. After I finished this bracelet last fall, I took a vacation from jewelry & explored other crafts. (I learned to tat, and if Geocities ever...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
I bought 10 pounds of gray moonstone rough this summer. Not all of the pieces I tumbled are ready for prime time, but I quite liked this little piece. I wrapped it in sterling silver wire.The pendant is about 1.5...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
I'm fairly certain that this is jasper, but I'm not willing to bet on it. It came from an assortment of mixed stones that I tumbled this summer. I loved the matte finish, so I pulled it out & set...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
This is one of the stones I tumbled and polished this summer. It's bloodstone, and I wrapped it in sterling silver wire. The back isn't as neat as I would like, but luckily it *is* the back and not the...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
Here's some lovely faceted fluorite for you! This stone is not flawless--notice the black speck at the edge in the one o'clock position--but it is gorgeous and fairly huge. It's 24mm in diameter (that's just under an inch), and weighs...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
I adore seraphinite. (I have seraphinite necklaces listed here and here.) I bought this lovely little cabochon from the same guy who sold me the cappuccino jasper I used in my earlier pendant.I wrapped the cabochon in sterling silver wire....
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
Prehnite is one of my favorite stones. I love the way it glows! (I purchased this stone, but I'm happy to say that I've got a ton [not literally, just a bunch] of prehnite in my stash of stones that...
Posted by Pretty Good Jewelry 3 years ago.
I intended this to be a reversible pendant, but the frame on the back went a little crooked. Oops.This is a flat cabochon that I cut and polished from a slab of Arizona zebra jasper. It's a good-looking stone, and...
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