I finally used up the last of the strand of blue impression jasper / sea sediment jasper / variscite nuggets I bought months ago! I've been meaning to make this for a while, but was out of stringing wire and had no time. I took multiple pictures to show the variation in the stones...you can see the reflection of my lamp in the dark blue shell rounds.
Name: Deep Blue Sea bracelet
Price: $10 (given to Jill S. for Christmas; resized to be smaller)
Length: 9.5 inches
Again, sorry about the picture quality. Camera is now on the charger, with hopes it'll help focus when the battery's full. I still had some blue impression jasper / sea sediment jasper / variscite left, so I picked one of the richest in color and used the remainder of my silver wire to make this problem child. It didn't stay the size I wanted it to--size 7--and for a while it looked like I wouldn't be able to make it bigger than a 5 (again), but I kept molding it with my hammer and got it to a size 6. I would have just scrapped it and started over if I'd had more wire. It looks nice despite that limitation. The photo actually shows a decent idea of the actual color, unlike my attempts to shoot Jill's necklace last night.
Name: Silver Lining ring
Price: $8
Size: 6
Another lady I know from work, when she found out I make jewelry, came to me about the same time the I got the tumbled quartz to work with. She'd gotten a free green necklace along with a purchase from somewhere, which was broken, and they were sending her a second. Problem was, she doesn't like green. So she proposed a trade--both necklaces, to be worn or used for spare parts, in exchange for something blue. I showed her what little blue I had (most has been used up on various projects), and she liked the blue impression jasper chips--also called sea sediment jasper or variscite. I had pendants on the way that were the same color, so I wound up combining them with the chips, a few baby bellflowers, a few bicones, and some silver off the broken necklace.
It's really hard to get good pictures when it's dark out, and hard to show the extreme variety of the stones.
Name: N/A
Estimated Cost: $30 (traded to Jill S.)
Length: about 18 inches
