Today I went out and bought a few things.. mostly pearls and supplies for a custom order, but I'd been playing earlier with a mixed bag of gemstones I've got, trying to identify things, and thought I'd identified one as labradorite. When I was in the bead store I saw some labradorite beads so I bought a few for comparison.. and now I'm pretty sure my mystery bead is not labradorite. It just doesn't have those fabulous iridescences. So I've taken a picture of it in the hopes that someone will shed some light on it! It's a greenish grey colour, and has darker green flecks in it. There is a band of brown across one side. It's fairly opaque. There's also a picture here of it next to my labradorite bead, in different light. Any ideas?
Next up is a picture of a piece I made out of wire (with my shiny new Christmas-present pliers - I really need a picture of them too, as they are awesome with black & white stripy handles!) I'm not entirely sure what to do with it - even after trying to harden it I'm not sure it would stand up to the stress of being free in part of a necklace, so I'm considering putting it between glass slides. Got to finalise that though as my previous attempts at doing things with glass slides didn't really look too good - it was the metal tape I used rather than solder, but I don't have a soldering iron or a place to use one.
Oh okay then I'll give you pictures of the earrings I made today too :) And one of my jellyfish pendants - adorable. Click for larger.
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