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I saw the vaguely rectangular brown/black freshwater pearls in the clearance section and thought, "Hey, those look like tree bark..." Also, antique gold finish french earwires, antique gold finish metal leaf charms, green iridescent seed beeds, 5mm green glass triangle Toho beads, and a large asymmetric moss agate.


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One that I finished up last night. Watch me try to be all artsy and thematic with the photographing!

Seaside Geometry: This is a reworking of one of the first projects I did a few weeks ago when I was overcome with the years-dormant shiny OMG lust. And then I ended up restringing the thing three more times.

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17 inches, blue-green 3mm acrylic beads, silver spacers, a couple of blue-green glass beads, and the blue and green inset silver square focals, with a silver two-strand snap clasp.

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And tonight I pulled out a couple of the pre-made 18 inch thin leather cords I'd ordered a few weeks ago and started fooling around:


Green with Envy: The first version of this just had the large green glass beads and the silver spacers. And while that looked good, it demanded more, which ended up being the green glass dangles on headpins. I re-purposed a couple of 5mm silver crimp covers as stoppers so the design won't slide off the cord.

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18 inches. Mixed green glass, silver spacers.


Parchment Roses: A local landmark store in these parts has had to consolidate due to skyrocketing rents, and they recently had a sale. I wandered down to check things out with Mer, and left my wallet behind, because I'd busted my budget last month building up the shiny stash. And what do we find? A whole table full of beads. As part of consolidating their stock to clear out of that space, they cleaned out their basement, and there was a bunch of nifty vintage and unique beads. Mer, being the awesomest friend ever, spotted me $20 worth of shiny. The ceramic focal here is one of the finds from that trip.

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18 inches. Pre-made leather cord. Flower pattern wood rounds, glass, and silver spacers. I repurposed a couple of 5mm silver crimp covers as stoppers so the design won't slide off the cord.


All three of these will go up on the Stellar Parallax Designs Etsy shop this weekend.
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I'm really happy how the bracelet turned out here. The necklace, however, needs work. I threw it together with the bracelet leftovers, just to see an idea of it. The tigertail is the wrong choice - I'll need to wait until my Acculon wire comes in from Fire Mountain, or do something with chain and sterling wire. And it needs a better focal piece, something more in the same style as the silver spacers.

Shiny OMG.

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Back in college, lo these thirteen years past, I wandered into a little bead store downtown. That was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately, my collegian finances couldn't keep up with my inner magpie, and except for a few moments of weakness over the years, the shiny hobby got put on the back burner until recently. The bead love is back with vengeance, though, and so I present Stellar Parallax Designs, affordable hand-crafted jewelry.

I work with whatever catches my eye, including glass, metal, semiprecious stone, acrylics, wood, vintage beads, recycled costume jewelry, etc. Inspiration come from nature, books I read, songs I love, a spill of beads knocked over by the cat. I will also discuss custom work - email me at stellarparallaxdesigns@gmail.com.

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