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 "Aqua Butterfly"

(Necklace)  Price: $50.00 SOLD 

 

This is one of those creations where I fell in love with the color of the beads and just wanted to fiddle around with making a focal using them and some new silver elements I just got in. My friend Erica had a table full of 'discards' all bagged up to sell like a mini marketplace. I had a blast just sifting through them and picking out what spoke to me on a creative level. There were oddities, broken bits, many, many glass beads of various vintages, and findings and old metal focals from the 1960s/1970s that looked odd and handmade. I paid for my six pound bag of bits and spent a blissful couple of hours back home just going through them, sorting and putting them away in my brand new plastic bin...I have five of those big bad boys, now. LOL Michaels craft store has the occasional sale where plastic storage cases are heavily discounted. The one I initially purchased was $14.99, down from it's 'retail' price of $41.99. Anyway, it's designed to hold photographs. Suitcase-like clear plastic with 16 small cases mounted inside. Perfect for individual bead types, or finding types, oddities sorted by metal, color, and/or type or style of setting. Storing things since then has gotten...creative. Anyway, back to the necklace above. the blue 'lobe' at the bottom of the focal is dyed shell, and the blue/teal beads on it are Fresh Water Pearls. The white/cream beads are glass and are contemporary along with the silver findings and chain. It's a pretty piece and I rather like how it came together, exploring and trying different things to reach a satisfying result.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers,

Marianne