more necklaces

Paper Bead Things

Love making these - colorful in sort of a neutral way so they go with lots.

I'm finishing the photography and listing details for these and others that will be in the shop soon.

I hate this part, seems to take forever. I always have to measure everything and look up the names and costs of the odd and/or really old beads I collect because I don't seem able to write it down when I'm in-the-zone creating the pieces.

the power of copper and turquoise together

It's no secret that I love using both copper and turquoise in my designs. Turquoise, especially the blue shades I gravitate to, calms my spirit the way the waters of the Caribbean or the Florida Keys do.

I have read that when turquoise is used with copper the gemstone's power is increased and if given by a friend that stone would offer protection from negative energy and bring good fortune; it is one of the oldest protection amulets.

It is said that the color turquoise helps to open the lines of communication between the heart and the spoken word, it is a color that recharges our spirits during times of stress and that to focus on the color will give instant calm and gently energize one.

I feel good making and wearing things that, if we let them, have so much potential to change how we experience our lives.

 

 

 

and silver and turquoise are a match made in Heaven. I need to Google that combination, I'm sure there is power there too.

What's happening at RocksandPaperSwans today?

labradorite and lava stone bracelet+

wonderful colors and textures and goes with most everything!

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earrings - never enough!

you can never have enough earrings!

Pretty new things

paper bead tribal necklace at rocksandpaperswans.etsy.com

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fun finds on Etsy

It is amazing what you can find on Etsy! We bought this vintage Collier's Magazine from LiteraryMischief. My Mom was on the cover! She was born and grew up in the Nassau in the Bahamas and just happened to be poolside when the Collier's photographer was taking pictures. He asked her to pose and history was made. Both my brother and I have probably romanticized life in the Bahamas back then but it must have been a wonderful time and place to grow up.

labradorite and lava stone

lovely combination with the tans and pinks of jasper, lepidolite gemstone, and

faceted Czech glass,

warm copper and shiny silver metals

labradorite and lava stone bracelet

new bracelet

neutral colors 

gray, tan, and silver

beautiful mystic labradorite, 

shell, bone, Czech glass, sterling and Turkish silver

at RocksandPaperSwans.etsy.com

lots of new earrings

you can't have too many ear dangles imho

 

lampwork and Mykonos green patina casting earring

ancient Roman glass, Mexican fire agate earrings

  

old mexico #3 flower earrings

hand painted wire wrapped polymer earrings

pink jasper cross earrings

 

labradorite and pale peach faceted glass earrings

naked lady returns

...  with more pretty necklaces  ...

 Tibetan conch shell and sterling necklace

 

hand painted polymer clay focal mixed bead necklace

naked lady, mannequin, dress form

I've finally found a mannequin to photograph RocksandPaperSwans necklaces on. I wanted one of those shabby chic, covered in linen or something, beautiful antique-y things but they are a little on the pricey side. This one was found in a little shop downsizing their stock in an antique mall nearby at a price I could afford.

For now I'm using her in the nude but later I plan to cover her with paint or pale tissue collage. I think I still have some old dress patterns in one of my many paper stash drawers that would be perfect.

So, here are the first new shots of the lovely Ms. ? (haven't named her yet).

 

Thai Buddhist amulet lariat necklace 

 Tribal necklace of seed beads, jasper, paper beads

 

 Tibetan agate and orange impression jasper necklace

I have lots of new things being listed in my shop now that I am really pleased with.

Everything I do is one of a kind.

Lovely colors and unusual mixes of beads, my polymer, and paper beads, very easy to wear.

Storyworks magazine

a new illo for a poem in Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine that should be in mailboxes about now

and here's a favorite older piece just because summer is almost over

sale continues

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birthday sale

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