YOJ 2004 - Week 14

The theme for this week is Hearts Desire: I felt that a luxurious bracelet, made with gemstone quality blood-red garnets was appropriate. The keyword here is "luxury", defined in the dictionary as follows:

1. Something inessential but conducive to pleasure and comfort.
2. Something expensive or hard to obtain.
3. Sumptuous living or surroundings: lives in luxury.

Luxury Bangle

YOJ 2004 - Week 13

This is probably the most expensive bracelet yet! I got some very hard-to-find gemstone quality topaz beads -- these babies are drilled at the bottom, making it easy to wire them through. The piece combines clouded aquamarine nuggets alternated with the topaz beads. The contrast between the soft, irregular nuggets and the very brilliant and faceted topaz beads made me think of other contrasts: sharks and dolphins.

The large center focal Bali bead is also one of the highest quality I've seen around. There is one word for this bracelet: shiny!

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Year of Jewelry 2004 - Week 12

And yes... it's another bangle! This was was inspired by the soft sands of my home town in Brazil... It's called The Beach. I combined rosy colored shells with soft pearls and hilltribe beads. Turned out very feminine and soooo soft to wear...

The Beach
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Year of Jewelry Week 11

Boy oh, boy... It seems I can't really stop making these bangles. I'm going to name 2004 the Year of bangles in my book of creativity. This one was made with some great green garnet ovals, which inspired me to add a variety of little pond critters: frogs, geckos, turtles. It's called The Pond:

The Pond
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