Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Green XOXO Necklace


Lamworked handmade glass beads from my own Dallas studio

Lauscha and Moretti glass

Sterling Silver (.925)
Fine Silver (.999)
Freshwater pearl
Thai Hill Tribe Silver
$150.
Front toggle closure
Price includes domestic US shipping, additional for international shipping

8 comments:

Meg said...

I am not a green person, but this is so attractive. So elegant.

ranchorita said...

Meg - you never know - I may make a green person of you yet!

HollyB said...

Unlike Meg, I LOVE green! It's one of my favorite colors, along with purple. How did you carve the Rosette looking bead? And is the skinny one malachite or just striated?
Whatever, they are all gorgeous!
I like the gold leaf,too.

ranchorita said...

Thanks, holly! Glad you like it! It's not carved, I heat up a rod of glass and take a contrasting color and lay stripes around it, and then I get that all melted and take a foot-long pair of tweezers and pull the blob into a "stringer" about the size of a pencil-lead, then I can use that minutely striped stringer to write like a pencil whatever design I want on the bead, be it a spiral, a straight line, or dots. Nope, not malachite,just glass beads and silver on this one, with a single gray freshwater pearl at the bottom of the pendant drop.

Meg said...

Holly, I'm with you on the purple, tho.

ranchorita said...

meg - purple is good... we can do purple...

ranchorita said...

thanks so much, alaskajen - Mine tend to be 20" to 28". I wear mine 22", because I like a cleavage-duster, but I sort of start building out the components and I link them together until it it feels right to me and then I declare it complete. However, I always have extra bits and bobs, and if someone wants a necklace longer, I can add or take away a link if they prefer it shorter. This is easily done.

LJ said...

Oh, this is so so so so beautiful! You speak green so gorgeously! My favorite of them all, PF - and that's saying something because I could work up a big lust for the "introduction" bracelet, too!