I love the big, black mother of pearl “coins”. They fit nicely with the irregular silvery donuts, big grey pin-striped coins, an assortment of silvery and steely spacers and jet black beads. It’s a nice tension between even and odd.
An asymmetric necklace with something for everyone. One side is luscious chunks of mother of pearl, counterbalanced by puffy lampworked glass beads of dark blue, gold, earth tones and copper striped. Smaller mother of pearl bits fill in for good measure.
If you prefer straight forward, no frills, simplicity with a little bit of bling, this one’s for you. Glass tubes, both large and small, are great spacers between the golden glass balls and decorative beads, like the golden glass rondelles.
I confess, I’m partial to amethyst in its broad spectrum of lavender to purple splendor. A large, curly-cue style gold tone ball looks spectacular flanked by a parade of irregular amethyst pieces, interspersed with fresh water pearls and alternating large and tiny gold spacer beads.
It’s hard to resist the creamy, translucent warmth of calcite, not unlike the middle of a Snickers candy bar. The centerpiece, along with the smaller, facetted, calcite tear drops and cubical orange stones make a soft, feminine statement next to the silvery discs and tiny seed pearls. Lovely for petites.
This block of speckled grey quartz is rather modern compared to many other pieces. The quartz has an asymmetric posse of steely balls, stamped pewter coins and seed pearls on one side and clear glass beads with metallic squares and silvery fish on the opposite end.
Five carved cinnabar styled beads are the centerpiece with luscious red coral beads, pink mother of pearl coin beads and assorted micro beads of red and gold providing lots of space in between to show off each bead’s best side.
One of my customers asked for shorter necklaces to go with her petite size. This soft, delicate green piece is my first response. Sitting on the cusp of the collarbones, the pale greens of aventurine and jade will compliment anyone’s complexion.
Pale green aventurine beads act like bookends for baby blue and silvery fish swimming toward the middle of three square, textured beads. Lots of underwater traffic flanked by icey blue and irregular green glass beads, with tiny decorative silver pieces to keep things interesting.