Anyhooey, yesterday i was going through the gemstone strands moving some to the sale table. I took the green goldstone rounds off the wall and decided to make a bracelet just to see if that would catch a buyer's eye. Many jewelery designers love goldstone, that sparkly reddish-brown "gemstone" that is also available in a blue color and, more rarely, in this deep dark green. Goldstone is a manufactured glass product that is cut and drilled like stone and often misrepresented as a gemstone. Anyways, it is kind of pretty with those copper flecks making the beads sparkle. And of course once the bracelet was done i JUST happened to have two beads left over for earrings.
I used bright copper beads and findings in the bracelet and carried the bright copper to the earrings but intead of repeating the 8mm round copper beads, i used bead caps as a decorative element. Initially those bead caps didn't lay flat on the large green goldstone beads. So i flattened 'em out using a hammer and metal block. How easy was that?
From there it was... a quick trip to a candy shop where bonbons PLA-A-A-A-A-Y on the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay! What song is that? And if you know the song, you'll know who sang it!
I used a bead tip headpin and added a copper plated hex spacer between the headpin and the bead cap for some added interest to the design. Oftentimes, you don't need to symmetrically add the same element(s) to the top of the bead; keep the focus away from the wrapped loop and the connection to the ear wire.
Supplies:
(2) large (12mm?) green goldstone rounds
(4) copper bead caps
(2) copper plated hex spacers
(2) copper plated bead tip headpins
earwires
Assemble and there you are! Happy landing on a chocolate bar!
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