Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

I write a column, of sorts, for a friend's e-zine every other month, and this month I'm writing about carnelian. It's one of my favorite stones, so I have quite a bit of it on hand, so instead of finding an image on the web and borrowing a tiny part of it to show the readers what the stone looks like, this time around, I got out a bunch of my carnelian to take photos myself, instead. What the heck; I can use the photography practice.

Only, I used sunlight, which is easy to photograph in (well, for my needs, anyway; I'm sure professional photographers - of which I am not one - would disagree strenuously, but I take my best photos in sunlight), so that's not much in the way of practice, but whatever. I can always use another lesson in framing. :)

So anyway, here are my beads. Rounds in a lighter gold and a very rich madeira color, tumbled nuggets, and cut & tumbled "bicones". Aren't they pretty?!



Jenie