Custom earrings with oval goldstones, black faceted vintage glass beads, and gun metal. Made them for my daughter whose Birthday is right around the corner, in October, and apparently they match her hair pretty well!
Goldstone is a doubly misleading name for a sparkling glass that is neither a stone, nor have anything to do with gold. It is often used as a substitute for more expensive sunstone, and its blue variation can also resemble dark lapis lazuli.
This is what the necklace looked when I posted it on Facebook as work in progress. It was meant as an answer to the ocean themed jewelry challenged at TRAG where I am a member. Not a single stone in this one, only glass and nassa shells. And the more of those I added, the more the result evoked a beach rather than an ocean.
I was thinking that maybe there should be matching earrings too and even sketched a design for them, but before I got to actually making them the necklace managed to sell itself right from Facebook. It was still unfinished, missing the forth strand, bead cones, and a clasp. None of that apparently mattered, and the colorful thing went on its way to the other side of the country.
On closer inspection, those round blue beads turned out to be made of dyed shell and not glass as I thought. Sometimes it pays to get my magnifying glasses on. Or keep track of beads in general. Or both.
