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A vacation and the garden have kept me otherwise occupied for a while, but here's some new stuff:

Anjie's necklace. Birthday present for my sister-in-law. Gold-dyed and white cultured pearls, seed bead spacers, and a gold/white focus on jewelry wire. Gold-plated S clasp.

Green Glass (also here and here). Tossed this together tonight with some big, faceted pale green glass beads I picked up the other day. Mixed green glass, copper rondelles on on jewelry wire. Copper Bali-style S clasp.

I also did a manly necklace for my husband for our seventh anniversary. I keep forgetting to steal it back from him for pictures.

Finally got Parchment Roses, Green with Envy and Seaside Geometry (all in this post) up on Etsy.

Also found a bead seller on Amazon marketplace that has a good price on half-hard sterling wire. Ordered a spool and will see how it is. I've been wanting to do some wire-wrap work.

Think this weekend's project is going to be playing with some of the copper-color craft wire I picked up a while back. I was thinking of a long coil of copper wire slipped on a leather cord for stability, and maybe with some glass beads interspersed between the coils. And I also want to do a blue variant on Green with Envy, with some of the foil finish glass beads I got the other day.

I also want to hit up a couple of thrift stores and see what I can find to cannibalize and re-purpose. Especially different varieties of chain. I picked up this book called Bead Simple that has some really cool pieces using with vintage or thrifted jewelry and pins, which is an idea I really like, that re-imagining.

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.