April 22, 2008

• A New Direction.... Goddess of the Blue Nile

  This isn't fun if I stick to styles and ways I know.  I found this wonderful face bead on ebay.  I've only used a face bead once in all the years I've been designing, earlier this year on the geisha earrings.  The expression and colors  resonated so much that I snagged it after a little bit of a bidding war. 

  I dug some old brass African beads, a lantern-shaped turquoise 50's art plastic bead from West Germany, Swarovski dark coral ("new") aurum (gold) crytals, some vermeil daisies, a marvelous little 3-tiered turquoise bead, some vintage turquoise ceramic sharp-edged rondelles and three tiny brass dangles taken from a 30's gypsy necklace and polished up a bit, some black plastic flowers which I affixed with exquisite vermeil headpins that look like stamens in exotic flowers, a jet glass lily flower, some tiny jet glass drops to suggest a coif.... 

  I cogitated upon all these bits of magic-to-be and came up with The Goddess of the Blue Nile -

                                             

  OK, Rainydame, thank you very much for your compliment.  Click HERE to see where they are selling. Free shipping for Xanga folk for now. Email me through xanga if you want to discuss a piece - different earwires, make them longer or shorter, even the price is negotiable, sometimes.

  love ya,

  pearlbamboo

  everything's copyrighted 

  e.p hodges 2008

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