It's My Birthday!!!

It's my birthday, and I cannot believe how old I've become!! But I still love bracelets! My sister and niece and I used to joke that someday I would be an old lady who wore big rings and too many bracelets: I think I've arrived! It is true that I have a tendency to think that the more bracelets you can wear at once, the better - but again, I don't really have the "old lady" feeling yet.

The bracelets here are influenced by the recent trip to Florida I made; they are all happy, aqua, pink and peach, created with the colours of the tall beach houses, the many shades of the sea and the land around it. The first bracelet above is made with coral and amazonite while the second one echoes the shades of coral and aqua with Peruvian chalcedony and aventurine; it can be found on the Unique Handmade Bracelets page.

The unique bracelet above features lampwork from Suzette Celestin in colours matched perfectly by natural aquamarines and - believe it or not- Australian Lightening Ridge opals! Now these opals are not the Peruvian opals I usually use; they are the same opals as those you see with the pink and blue colour-play that you think of when you first think of opals. These are not white-based however; they are a beige colour, but in the light you can see deep within the colour-play to a smaller degree. They are an interesting gemstone to be beige - they have a luminiscent quality and a translucence that you never really see in most beige stones.

The bracelet directly above, Pompano Point, is one of those "spring/summer" mixtures of gemstones that I love so much. The faceted olive bead is peach aventurine: other gemstones are blue lace agate, cherry quartz, rutilated quartz, aquamarine, amethyst and other shades of aventurine. The sterling charms represent sea life.
The last bracelet is handmade of turquoise, coral, lapis, smoky quartz, boro lampwork beads, and light green quartz; it, too, has the "beach" influence. Both Pompano Point and the bracelet below can be found on the Cluny Grey Jewelry site under Unique Handmade Bracelets.So, I'm going to wear all the bracelets that I can cram on my wrists and as my mantra continue to murmur,"You're not getting older, you're getting better."

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Shades of Blue

I just spent the last week in Florida! How wonderful is that? It was business as usual with the work laptop and almost the entire jewelry inventory along for the ride, but somehow business is quite different with waves frothing on white sand and people you love all around you.
It's funny that I made so much blue-toned jewelry before going to Florida - I'm sure it was my subconscious anticipating the sea. The top lapis bracelet with two strands of lapis is a blue that mimics the dark blue of the ocean close to the horizon; the necklace (of Swarovski crystals entirely) has that clear turquoise that you see closer to the shore as does the bottom bracelet made of Peruvian blue opals. The two Swarovski starfish are just a nice bonus! The lampwork bracelet that you see immediately below is a bit of an anomaly, but still somehow seemed to fit into the sea/beach theme.




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