Color Challenge Friday Blue - "AMAZONITE BEADS" ~ © Tiffany E. Reed
I recently shared a lovely Amazonite sphere that is in my minerals collection. Many years ago, I had a hobby of making jewelry from semi-precious stones such as jasper, turquoise, rose quartz, smoky quartz, and others — including amazonite!
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This necklace, pictured above, is one that I made from pale-blue amazonite beads, with an occasional gray labradorite bead as an accent.
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The central bead in the necklace I designed is a square-with-rounded-corners piece of amazonite that has whitish streaks of albite and dark flecks that might be schorl (black tourmaline).
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This necklace was strung on 0.38mm steel jewelry wire, and I used stainless crimps and clasps. I usually triple the wire in a special configuration that I learned over time for added strength and durability. One shop in Tennessee carried my jewelry items for sale several years ago, which meant a little extra spending money to buy more jewelry supplies!
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I have zero creativity and art sense in my brain :(
Just want to make myself clear, the supplies that you will be purchasing soon (mention at last sentence), does it includes the stones as well?
Excellent work. I think it's so cute and enjoyable to wear handmade jewelry as a decoration. In such things there is a particle of the soul of the master who created them. And this makes them special, able to have a beneficial effect on their owner.