Beads Beads Glorious Beads

I was just thinking about all you jewelery buffs amongst my friends and fellow sojourners out there....I have a whole stack of excess beads sitting here waiting to be sold on for a very reasonable price SO if you would like some..............................................
Check out the pictures, descriptions and prices below and drop me a comment if you want some. OR you can check out my listings on trademe
These are only available to those who live in NZ.......sorry. You can also
They are all glass beads and are of varying grades, the sizes range from 6mmx6mm to 10mmx20mm


HOT RED MIX
Various shape Hot Red Mix Colour range of Dark Blood Red to Hot Red There are at least 100 beads in this mix including some fancy beads.
$9





OCEAN BLUE LUSTER MIX
Various shape Ocean Blue Luster Mix
Colour range of Ocean Blue to Seafoam.
There are at least 40 beads in this mix including some fancy beads.
$6




GREEN GARDEN MIX
Various shape Garden Green Mix
Colour range of Dark Green to Light Green.
There are at least 50 beads in this mix including some fancy beads.
$7






YELLOW BEAD MIX
Various shape
Colour range of Dark Amber to Light Yellow
There are at least 60 beads in this mix including some fancy beads.
$8





Right! That's it for now.....I also have a mix in Cold Blues, Lots of strands of czech firepolished crystals in the Clear "colour". They come in 4mm, 6mm, and 8mm on a 16inch strand. When I say lots........I bought a mass of the 4mm and 6mm and 1/2 a mass of the 8mm. (1 mass is about 1200 beads) And some other bits and pieces so just ask away.
Have fun with ya creating!! The sky is the limit.

Jewelery, Digital Cameras and Craftyness

Today I finally got our digital camera to the camera shop as the flash has gone on strike.
Not only did the flash go on strike BUT it went on strike just as I pulled it out to make a photo at my dear friend's wedding for whom I made the last lot of jewelery !! HOW TYPICAL!
Photo's of the jewellery (the last photo's I made before it went on the fritz) are further down on the blog........
.............ANYWAY.................the camera........
The guy looks at me, the camera then back at me and says "Well, there's good news and bad news"
hhhmmmm......I always cringe when I hear that statement.
"The good news", he says " is that the camera still works"...........................Yeeeeeess.........wait for it....." the bad news is that it will cost between $200 and $300 to fix the flash and the camera isn't worth that anymore"
(I hear Karen's hubby saying "Go the SLR....a REAL camera")
So There you have it...........with winter coming up this camera will only make photos outside in good light and apart from that it's not much good at all. Which is very sad :-(
So I reported the verdict to my hubby who suggested we start saving..........
"SIGH"

On to more cheerful things.....
Here are the photos of some of the jewellery I made for my friend B's wedding.













The 4 strand bracelet was the bride's one and the others for her bridesmaids. Each Bracelet was completely individual with the same pattern of beads on each strand just staggered so that the 2 strands next to each other didn't look exactly the same. Mostly Swarovski crystals with a few czech and celestial ones thrown in. The slide bars where Sterling Silver.




The Earrings where once again all similar....
this photo is of the bride's earrings
and her bridesmaids had the same thing just
smaller crystals. There is a different shaped crystal on the end of each drop. Lots of fun.
I also made a belt for her consisting of 2 lengths of about 84cms full of crystals of varying types. This project was great to work on and sitting there at the wedding looking at the final result was very satisfying.