Gonna Have to Face It...
You know you are addicted to beads - not using them, mind you, just buying them - when you buy them even when you have no time at all for using them, and then they sit in their little plastic bag on your coffee table for over a week because you have no time to even put them away.
I got some cool stuff weekend before last, and I am counting down the days to the end of the Dayjob From Hell so that I can utilize some of them in new jewelry. Among the cool baubles are these neat bone donuts in a dark golden ivory color that have little red cherry blossoms and brown birds etched into them. Unfortunately, the dye is not waterproof (brilliant idea, that :( ), so I will have to laquer those before I can use them.
Gee Jenie, I hear you ask, how did you find out they weren't waterproof?
Funny you should ask. The place I got 'em from uses the worst price tags in the entire world. Whenever you peel one off, it leaves tons of gunk behind. So I used tape to try to lift most of it, and then went to wash/rub the rest off...and next thing I knew, my fingers were a nice bright red and the donuts were etched with nothing to fill the etching. :( Luckily I only ruined one, and that one I can just wear myself because I only ruined one side, but it's a big pain, and I am not looking forward to cleaning the rest of them so they can be laquered, not to mention the act of lacquering, which I am also not looking forward to...it's hard to lacquer something smoothly and without fingerprints. And there are 12 of them.
In addition to the not-quite-so-cool-as-I-had-hoped donuts, I also got some really neat rectangular pendant beads of graphic jasper (potassium feldspar with quartz inclusions) and another stone labelled same, but that is a really beautiful peach color, with different markings. I also got round pendants of pietersite and silverleaf jasper. I think they'll look great with leather cord.
In addition to those, I got some neat shell stations that will look really pretty as center focal points, and one piece each of some gorgeous blue pietersite, flower jade, and an aqua-colored Peruvian (aka Andean) opal that is free form. It has a little gold discoloration, but it's still very pretty (and fairly expensive). I wish I could find more in the same blue shade, because it really is a beautiful stone.
Can't wait to turn them all into something pretty!
I got some cool stuff weekend before last, and I am counting down the days to the end of the Dayjob From Hell so that I can utilize some of them in new jewelry. Among the cool baubles are these neat bone donuts in a dark golden ivory color that have little red cherry blossoms and brown birds etched into them. Unfortunately, the dye is not waterproof (brilliant idea, that :( ), so I will have to laquer those before I can use them.
Gee Jenie, I hear you ask, how did you find out they weren't waterproof?
Funny you should ask. The place I got 'em from uses the worst price tags in the entire world. Whenever you peel one off, it leaves tons of gunk behind. So I used tape to try to lift most of it, and then went to wash/rub the rest off...and next thing I knew, my fingers were a nice bright red and the donuts were etched with nothing to fill the etching. :( Luckily I only ruined one, and that one I can just wear myself because I only ruined one side, but it's a big pain, and I am not looking forward to cleaning the rest of them so they can be laquered, not to mention the act of lacquering, which I am also not looking forward to...it's hard to lacquer something smoothly and without fingerprints. And there are 12 of them.
In addition to the not-quite-so-cool-as-I-had-hoped donuts, I also got some really neat rectangular pendant beads of graphic jasper (potassium feldspar with quartz inclusions) and another stone labelled same, but that is a really beautiful peach color, with different markings. I also got round pendants of pietersite and silverleaf jasper. I think they'll look great with leather cord.
In addition to those, I got some neat shell stations that will look really pretty as center focal points, and one piece each of some gorgeous blue pietersite, flower jade, and an aqua-colored Peruvian (aka Andean) opal that is free form. It has a little gold discoloration, but it's still very pretty (and fairly expensive). I wish I could find more in the same blue shade, because it really is a beautiful stone.
Can't wait to turn them all into something pretty!
posted by Jenie at 11:29 PM
1 Comments:
Shhh...never, ever, ever admit out loud that you're a bead addict. Someone'll stick you in a 12-step program and then those little bags of beads will sit there forever unused and unloved :-( Oh and bummer on the non-color fast donuts. Have you tried "Undu" for getting sticky tags off w/o ruining anything? I love that stuff!
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