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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 22, 2007 11:13 PM
Just have to throw this in here.. 1940's bracelet
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Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 22, 2007 11:17 PM
Is that yours???  Hey where'd Yoda send the turquoise bracelet?? OK, it's back now  I guess I'm not much of a purist -- the Sleeping Beauty stuff is a gorgeous blue, but I like turquoise with more matrix. Do you like the green turquoise from the Orient?? IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 22, 2007 11:22 PM
No, not mine. I'm not having any luck.
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 22, 2007 11:26 PM
.. it's close. The other bracelet is for sale @ $1,499  re: earth tone pendant, I love that! And the Unicorn does look like Scrimshaw--I thought that's what it was. re:color, I am much the same way about moods=color. But there are a few constants, and I share the blue/green affinity but it has to be certain shades..ex. that Asian turquoise? not fond of it, or malachite for that matter. The heavy green Jadeite is not a fav either. Thanks for posting all that stuff. Do you upload to a host for each image like I do? Or do you get a usable IMG from a tool bar? I'm finding shortcuts all the time, wondering. I resized the Bowling alley  IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 22, 2007 11:26 PM
Very nice work!!! That inlaid bracelet is *gorgeous*  I enjoy working with silver materials..... I've never been one for gold -- I just don't care for it.....Next up: coral!! And perhaps some Egyptian inlaid beads..... But that'll have to be tomorrow -- must snooooooooze  IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 22, 2007 11:47 PM
I just uploaded The Shack Tool bar. Now I can re-size, hey I'm only 2 days old at this!
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Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 06:28 AM
And you've grown so much too!! quote: Do you upload to a host for each image like I do? Or do you get a usable IMG from a tool bar? I'm finding shortcuts all the time, wondering.
I don't save and upload every pic I post -- I do for the ones I want to remain at LL for all of posterity. For pics I don't really care about or don't want to take the time, I "steal bandwidth" -- ie, right-click on any image I want to kype, choose "Properties" and highlight the Address (URL) in the Properties popup box, then right-click Copy. Then I can enclose it in image tags here (right-click Paste). I have a lotta mb's at my Yahoo website, so that's where I upload all the keepers..... You can see where people have gotten stuff (or how they've put it up here) by either right-clicking on the image in the post and choosing Properties, or by clicking "Edit" in someone's post. You can't edit their post, but you can see how they've posted something (like a hyperlink).....IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 10:12 AM
The "flask" site w/ the watermelon tourmaline has some sexy stuff here's more: [IMG]
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 10:28 AM
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 10:58 AM
Ametrine is not expensive but here are some good ones... IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:09 AM
I thought there was something very familiar about the Aromatherapy Vessels site ( www.byebeads.com ) -- then I read this:Earth and Sky Cylinder Beads ~ I started making these long, long Earth and Sky Beads in early 1999, several months after I had taken my first class from Andrea Guarino at the Puget Sound Bead Show in July of 1998. The gradation in color is what originally fascinated me about these landscape beads. The Moretti glass comes in many different shades, but the gradation from one color to another is not a smooth one. Consequently, most of the glass for these beads was hand mixed from other colors, drawn out into rods, cooled, then used, in the order of their saturation. The evolution of my technical skill was a continual challenge, as the whole bead needed be kept hot as additional glass was applied to the mandrel. These were made on a Minor Bench Burner, an oxygen/propane torch. These Sky beads were made in several different landscape styles: Forest, Water, Lakes, Ocean, and Desert, and in different lengths, too. (The ones in this image are about 4 1/2 inches long.) You can see the evolution of my fascination with light, and earth, and sky continuing in my Evening Star Aromatherapy Vials even yet today. Andrea Guarino has long been a fave!! I love her Universe/Galaxy and Underwater bead-series….. http://andreaguarino.com/beads.html (cont'd) IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:09 AM
Which segues into Alethia Donathan….. love the Lava Jet series!! http://www.dacsbeads.com/lampwork_glass_bead.htm This is a *fabulous* necklace with the stick pearls and blister pearl along with her lampwork beads….. Please don’t even encourage me in my passion for Venetian glass beads http://www.venetianbeadshop.com/venetian-bead-shop/sp.html IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 11:14 AM
Rutilated Quartz:
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Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:18 AM
I love that teal-blue wave-swirl/nautilus vessel!!I have some of the Peruvian Blue (and Pink) Opal, like in this necklace, but I don't like the faceting, prefer it natural..... I like the pink opal much better than rose quartz, rhodochrosite etc. I'd take a pic of some of mine, but the camera doesn't do it justice..... IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:20 AM
I'm home with a sick boy today -- what time do you have to go to work??IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:35 AM
Branch (twig) coral is one of my faves..... I have an old old coral necklace of my mother's that needs restringing -- thought I might use hand-carved ivory beads as spacers..... IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 11:41 AM
!%*&% !! My Flintstones connection is so slow! I just spent 1/2 hr looking for some art glass paperweights a local store sells...it is series the artist did of all the planets...amazing...can't find it! Meanwhile I remembered Dale Chihuly = his huge art glass hangs over the canals in Venice. And you know I'm all about Venice heres some Dale
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 11:45 AM
And I do have to run ~ LaterIP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 11:47 AM
Lator Gator  Leaving you with a neat planet paperweight  IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 01:13 PM
I've been wanting to put some citrine and amber together in a project, for their metaphysical properties:Citrine - Lore Keywords: Success, Abundance Citrine is known as the "success stone" because it promotes success, prosperity, and abundance. It particularly promotes success in business, earning it another nickname, "merchant's stone", and is said to bring business if put in the cashbox of a shop or carried. Citrine is a stone of good fortune, although it brings good fortune in sometimes unexpected ways. It is a stone of manifestation, helping manifest abundance in many ways. Along with prosperity and good fortune, citrine imparts generosity, to share the wealth, so to speak. Citrine dissipates negative energies of all kinds. It also does not absorb any negative energies from its surroundings, and thus never needs energentic clearing. Citrine can be used to clear unwanted energies from the environment. Family issues caused by negative energies can also be resolved and cleared with citrine. Since citrine eliminates negative energies, it helps generate stability in all areas, and is good for general protection. In the mental area, citrine enhances mental clarity, confidence, and will power. It also increases creativity and promotes honesty. Emotionally, citrine relieves depression, self-doubt, anger, and irrational mood swings. Citrine is a stone that brings happiness and cheer to one who carries or wears it. Citrine also reduces self-destructive tendencies. Citrine helps eliminate fears caused by others' ideas and suggestions. It can help one overcome emotional traumas and grief. Sensuality and sexuality can also be heightened by citrine. In the psychic and spiritual realms, citrine is good for general psychic awareness and spiritual development. Citrine clears the aura of negative energies and influences. It is also very useful for meditation. Citrine is a stone of protection, removing or deflecting negative energies of all kinds. It is also excellent for dream recall and dream work. Physically, citrine is beneficial for the digestion, stomach, eliminating nightmares and other sleep disturbances, thyroid, general health, heart, kidney, liver, muscles, strength, endocrine system, circulatory system, tissue regeneration, urinary system, immune system, fibromyalgia. Citrine is also good for removing toxins, and overcoming addictions. Citrine is associated with the solar plexus chakra. Amber Amber gives a soothing, light energy that is both calming and energizing at the same time. It can help manifest desires and heighten intellectual abilities, clarity of thought, and wisdom. It is said to cleanse its environment by drawing out negativity, and is said to relieve physical pain the same way. It brings the energies of patience, protection, psychic shielding, romantic love, sensuality, purification, balance, healing and calmness to those who wear or carry it. It is considered a good luck charm for marriage. Amber is excellent for inner child work and past life work. Amber is associated with the solar plexus chakra and sometimes the sacral chakra. Mystical lore says that amber is beneficial for purifying the body, headaches, bone problems, heart problems, circulation, ears, hearing problems, endocrine system, fibromyalgia, intestinal/digestive disorders, kidney, bladder, lungs, and general healing purposes. IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 07:33 PM
quote: I share the blue/green affinity but it has to be certain shades..ex. that Asian turquoise? not fond of it, or malachite for that matter. The heavy green Jadeite is not a fav either.
I like the apple green of some of the Oriental Turquoise and the Jadeite: And the Malachite: What about the Yellow Turquoise?? Or the African Turquoise with its odd olive/teal blend of color?? IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 07:37 PM
Or real jade….. I have a stock of the dark to light green to almost a grayish-cream color, somewhat like this: (Nice Sunstone/Goldstone spacers in that last one ;-)) IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 07:37 PM
And I have some rare carved pre-Columbian jade, carnelian and quartz – probably Tairona. I should take a pic for you – these are intriguing!! The little jade “worms” (grubs) were fertility talismans, I’ve been told….. they came from necklaces that looked kinda like this: Ah-Hah!! Et Voila ;-)) AM355. Oh what an amazing strand of carnelian grubs or gusanos with beads between them. These are amuletic pendants, known in South America only to the Tairona of Colombia. You can see similar grubs on pages 150 and 152 of "Collectible Beads." There are 29 perfect beads on this strand, changing in size but similar in detail. This is a magical necklace, measuring 18 inches long with a centerpiece of a 15/16 inch in diameter round carnelian beads accented by crystal beads. This is very memorable. $950.US. (sold) IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted August 23, 2007 07:40 PM
Here’s some of my stuff: the two amber/copal/resin necklaces: -- the chunky one on the left has small carnelian spacers with "vegetable amber" (tree resin) and copal pieces (the dark orange) from Tibet -- the small one in a "3" shape is genuine Baltic amber -- I have quite a bit of the cognac-color; it's a pleasure to work with it and feel it in your hands and on your body The three eclectic ones: -- the black and bone one is from my sojourn with a fella who imported **lots** of things from South America, and I managed to end up with some of the jewelry..... it's Pre-Columbian, probably Tairona, and the people he got it from in Colombia said it's probably human bones (with black ceramic spacers)..... I also have one with coral, carnelian and teeth -- guess those were the days when you wore the body parts of your vanquished enemies to gain his strength and courage..... -- the one in the middle features some hand-blown Venetian glass pieces (the squares) -- the turquoise choker is a pattern I've used a few times, in necklaces and bracelets..... the clasp is one-of-a-kind (that was the Kelly Charvet page link I put up before)….. IP: Logged |
Solane Star Knowflake Posts: 5378 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2005
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posted August 23, 2007 08:41 PM
Thank-You so much guys, for posting and sharing all these Lovely Treasure's , such Beautiful Gems & Information!!!!!Stunning Pics!!!! THANKS!!!! 
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