New Beads

To be listed soon in my Etsy bead shop...

Turquoise cabs, 8mm

Faceted smoky quartz cabs, 5mm

Faceted rose quartz cabs, 5mm

Faceted prehnite cabs, 11mm (also got some in 9mm, same shape)

Rainbow moonstone cabs, 12mm

Melanite garnet cabs, 10mm

Crystal cabs, 13mm

Faceted amethyst cabs, 10mm

New Stuff

Variscite and recycled sterling silver ring, size 9

Faceted turquoise, recycled 14k gold, and recycled sterling silver ring, size 7.5

Prehnite, recycled 14k gold, and recycled sterling silver cufflinks

Beady Goodness

The latest additions to my ever-growing bead stash... well, I guess it's not technically my stash since they are going to be up for sale in my shop. Right???

Smoky quartz step-cut 'rice' briolettes

Faceted square cushion cut carnelian cabochons, 10mm

Lapis lazuli cabochons, 8mm

Enormous faceted smoky quartz cabochons
(I may keep one or more of these... not sure yet.)

Carnelian briolettes

Faceted labradorite twister rondelles

I was also able to re-stock a few things I've been out of for a while...

Faceted melanite garnet cabochons, 12mm

Square cushion cut amethyst cabochons, 1omm

Round prehnite cabochons, 8mm

Finally, Some New Rings

The first batch to emerge from my new studio...

Diagonally set faceted labradorite & sterling silver ring, size 8

My signature big round labradorite ring with satin finished sterling silver, size 9.5

Moderately flashy oval labradorite ring on floral textured band, size 8.25

Another big round labradorite ring, size 7.75

Faceted pink amethyst & sterling silver ring, size 7

Prehnite & sterling silver ring (custom order)

Seraphinite & sterling silver ring, size 6.75

Cloudy aquamarine & sterling silver ring (custom order)

I'm headed back out to my studio during naptime today and for a full day tomorrow, so if you're waiting on a custom order that you don't see here, yours may be in the next batch. (Then again, maybe not, the list is overwhelmingly long right now...)

Someday I will be caught up.

Gem Show, Part 3

A couple of new creations made last night using beads purchased at the gem show on Friday...

Labradorite pendant on necklace of smooth, glossy, tumbled aquamarine nuggets. Yum.

{another view}

Prehnite & Bali silver pendant on necklace of luscious multicolored tourmaline beads

{another view}

New Rings

Well, my little time management experiment was mostly successful. I have a little over a dozen rings in the completed or nearly completed stage, and about eight more in the half-finished stage. I'm just about caught up on custom orders, which is a relief, but now I have to find time to fill all the new orders I got in the last few days - eek! Hopefully Carlos will nap today and I can at least get my bead orders shipped - jewelry orders may not go out until tomorrow.

Here are a few of the rings I've finished so far, to be listed in my Etsy shop whenever I can find the time...

Prehnite & sterling silver ring, size 9 (maybe spoken for already; I'm not sure though)

Faceted labradorite & sterling silver ring, size 9.25

Pink tourmaline & sterling silver ring, size 8.5

Another pink tourmaline & sterling silver ring, also size 8.5

Custom order cloudy aquamarine & sterling silver ring

Whew...

I am totally exhausted... Carlos has been really sick the past couple of days with a high temperature and the most persistent cough I've ever heard. The coughing has been keeping him (and me) from getting any decent sleep so we're all pretty wiped out. I took him to the doctor today and she said he has an ear infection and possibly pneumonia. He got antibiotics and cough syrup with codeine for night time; hopefully he'll be his usual self again soon. In the meantime he has been even more clingy than usual and I haven't had time to do much other than medicate and soothe him and watch movies with him. I think the codeine finally kicked in though so I'm trying to catch up on a huge backlog of work. Here are some beads I bought the other day - I have no idea when I'll get around to listing them in my shop but here's a sneak peek.

Ametrine marquis briolettes

Andalusite marquis briolettes

Fluorite briolettes

Faceted garnet 'rice'beads

Iolite briolettes

Garnet briolettes

Smoky lemon quartz marquis briolettes

Affordable tourmaline oval beads

Faceted prehnite beads

Affordable tourmaline 'brick' beads

Rose quartz marquis briolettes

Large multicolored sapphire rondelles

Even larger red/pink spinel rondelles

Faceted multicolored tourmaline 'rice' beads

I also bought some yummy labradorite cabochons...

These will go up for sale eventually...

...so will these...

...and these...

(another view of the same ones, showing the flash better on the lower right cab, which I think is actually spectrolite)

And these are the ones I'm hoarding for my own designs, so if you really love one of them and would like a custom ring, let me know.

My supplier offered me a smokin' deal on some gorgeous bezel set gemstone pendants, so I couldn't resist stocking up. I've already used some in my own designs (to be posted next), but I bought plenty to sell as well.

Faceted amethyst & sterling silver

Faceted amethyst & sterling silver

I'm totally blanking on the name of this stone... a little help?

Charoite & sterling silver

Kyanite & sterling silver

And now let the labradorite love-fest begin...

Ooooh...

Aaaaaah...

{sigh} do I really want to part with this one??? methinks perhaps not.

Yum!

Is it too redundant to say 'sigh' again?

Lovin' that orange fire!

Lapis & sterling silver

On to a parade of pietersite...

So pretty!

Love these markings...

...and the color in this one is to-die-for.

Rubies!!!

Ruby fuschite (only got one of these, darn!)

Rutilated quartz & sterling silver

Eek, that was a huge post... hope you enjoyed the eye candy. Now if Carlos keeps sleeping for a bit I suppose I could post some new designs...