Yesterday I whipped out eight bracelets using leftover stones from a variety of projects. They're all about the same length, in a variety of colors and patterns, depending on what I had available that worked with them.
Picture-taking didn't turn out too well as you can see--the camera won't focus on the foreground, whether it's the front of the bracelet or just the bracelet in general, only the background or the back of the bracelet, no matter what I tried.
Name: N/A
Price: Malachite and silver $20
Green aventurine and gold $10
Sapphire, Swarovski, and antique copper $15
Blue lace agate and silver $10
Garnet and silver $10
Peach/Red aventurine and antique copper $10
Rhodonite, blackstone, and silver $15
Yellow jade and silver $10
Length: all are about 8 inches
I made this today after an early afternoon of housework. Three different Swarovski bicone colors, antique brass rounds and findings, and gold spacers. I thought I'd ordered antique brass spacers, but I guess not. I like the color contrasts between the bright gold and the brass, though.
Name: Firesong
Price: $30
Length: 19.25 inches
Since I'd used up all of the blue kiwi-stone I had, I bought another strand when I went to Von's with a friend almost three weeks ago, for the specific purpose of making a bracelet to match the set. That was immediately followed by having my wisdom teeth pulled, and a crazy mess of stuff to do at work, and buckling down to meet the National Novel Writing Month challenge. Now that I've beat the challenge, my mouth is more-or-less healed up, and I finally got a teeny tiny bit of spare time at home, I intended to put this together. Then we got the bad storm this past weekend that ripped through Illinois (where I currently live) and Indiana (my home). It destroyed the home of a very good friend at work, so I put things on hold again to hold a "fundraiser" here on my blog and on my FaceBook. Through that, I actually had a friend put a reserve on this bracelet for when I actually got it done.
I had some time last night to make it because, given I have to be in late today to do my job (not allowed to put up the Black Friday sales stuff until tonight and after we close), I could sleep in this morning. Feels weird not being at work this time of day, but at least I can tidy my house before Thanksgiving so I have somewhere clean to come home to following the insanity of working a 12-hour shift Black Friday.
I used up my last gold clasp to make this, and the last three Swarovski crystal bicones I had...and most of my remaining gold metal seed beads. Also used up my last gold crimp bead covers.
Name: Survivor's Song bracelet
Price: $7 (reserved by Lou Anne G.)
Length: 7 inches; custom length
And here are a pair of earrings to match the previous necklace. I don't do earrings very often, but these just kind of came together. They were the only findings I had for a pair of gold earrings, and I've never used that kind of ear wire before, but they worked out well.
Name: Survivor's Song earrings
Price: $8 (originals sold to Lou Anne G.)
Length: approx. 2 inches including earwire to the bend
