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Pearl Dreams

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Edit: When I deleted my albums (for personal reasons) the photos in many of these posts vanished, since they linked directly from my albums. Sorry for any inconvenience.


Hi all,

A rainy day here today-- a good day to stay indoors and take photos. I used available light next to a window. These are only a few of the items I have made; it's going to take me days to photograph and upload the rest but this will get me started. Check back from time to time if you want to see more!

You'll see a lot of tourmalines, which I love, but there will be others as well.

I'll start with the "culprit"-- the watermelon tourmaline slice pendant that got me started beading! (I made the necklace, not the pendant!)

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My husband bought this pendant for my birthday about 5 1/2 years ago. The following Christmas he gave me matching slice dangle earrings, then in the spring a matching slice ring! (What a generous guy! :D)

So then all I needed was a bracelet. Well, try to find a watermelon tourmaline slice bracelet-- not easy, as I learned! :(

A year later, we went to a gem show, where I found a few strands of temporarily strung slices. It seemed that was the best I could do, so I bought them. Then I had to learn how to string them! :eek: And so it began.

Here is a photo of 3 of my bracelets, the slices one is obviously the one in the middle.

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Next are some Kyanite pieces: the photo showing the necklace with the clasp and earrings, followed by a neck shot, then a close up of the earrings:

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Now here is my 6mm tourmaline bead necklace. I did make matching earrings but forgot to photograph them-- another day I'll add it to this post.

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Hi, Pearl_dreams,

Vhere are linques? I see nuhthingk. -- Got 'em now!!!

CarolK
 
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These next ones I just made this week. I had these baroque CFWP and a silver figaro necklace I wasn't using-- this seemed like a good use for them.

The chain was 18" I added a pearl charm at the clasp so if I wanted to wear it shortened (like in this photo) there was a dangle at the neck. I wore it once and it seems comfortable.

Then I made drop earrings. I still have more of these pearls so I may make a charm bracelet as well :).


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I posted some on the Pearls and Gems thread today -- shall I put them here too?

Whew! Taking a break to feed family.
 
I posted some on the Pearls and Gems thread today -- shall I put them here too?

Got 'em! Oh, my-- I *love* that tourmaline slice pendant!!!

Thanks for uploading the pictures! It's nice that these supplement the photos on the Pearls and Gems thread.

CarolK
 
Great job on your jewelry! ;)

I have a "thing" for tourmalines...
 
I love the dangle on the clasp of the CFW. Beautiful surprise when you turn your back.

Also the 6mm tourmaline beads and the necklace of tiny tourmalines supporting the pendant are truly lovely and "edible"! Wonderful colors not available in any other stone!

How durable is tourmaline? The longitudinal grain makes me worry about it easily fracturing (but then I worry about a lot of things).

CarolK
 
Oh, yes, and the toggle clasps work *brilliantly* on the bracelets!

The figaro chain is well-proportioned for the pearl dangles. So much so that I have a difficult time imagining them pre-integration.

Really great pieces!!!
CarolK
 
All just wonderful! And so great to see them ON!! The pearls are luminous, and yes, I love tourmalines also!
 
Hubby is heating supper so I can post (GREAT guy! Gotta love 'im!!)

Tourmaline has a hardness of 7 - 7.5 and it has held up very well. I did find on more included beads (I haven't posted those yet) that if I tried to ream out a bead hole it sometimes cracked the bead :(. So I adjusted by using thinner beading wire when the hole was very tiny.

I'll post the ones from the other thread. Next post.
 
CFWP with fluorites, citrines, 3mm tourmalines:

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Amethyst with garnet spacers and CFWP:

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Once again the ovals I recently strung-- mostly Jeremy's with a few of the smaller pearls from TJ Maxx:

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I didn't make the hoops, just the charms:

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Thanks for all the compliments!! *blush*

That's all the photos I took today so I'll have to wait until tomorrow for the smithsonite, the fancy jasper, the other pearls, more tourmalines, and by then I'll have strung my purple jade/hemimorphite/amethyst necklace and earrings. And whatever else I've forgotten! :p

Looking at this all together reminds me where all my discretionary money has gone for the past few years. :eek:

But I'm still going to a few more gem and bead shows in the next couple of weeks hehehe! Who needs new fall clothes anyway, right? ;)
 
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Hi Pearl_dreams,

Beautiful work - yes, I love tourmalines too - I'm a bit of a "pink" fan, and I love the mix of colours you get in tourmaline strands. I also love the nice little swirls you do on your headpins - a good signature effect - and I truly LOVE the detail of having the baroque FW on the chain extender - very nicely finished!
 
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