9.18.2021 - Becoming the Chain.....

While I’ve seemingly stalled out, …things are not always what they seem….

Last year I purchased a beautiful silver pendant from Lark in Smithville, TX - it’s so stunning, shaped like the blossom of a yucca plant, it is hinged and opens as if blooming. I want to wear it all the time - but I also want to wear my work… so - the larger barrel shaped beads I had been making have now been scaled back to fit through the tiny bail on the pendant. My beads have become the chain… many of you know that I like to work small - and inevitably as I come up with new ideas I work to refine them into more delicate and, yes, much much smaller finished beads. (3/16”dia.)

I’ve been making these for a few months now - in lengths ranging from 16” to a decadent opera length of 38” - from every imaginable opaque and silver glass. The loop that the lobster claps hooks onto is also small - so that the pendant can be switched out.
I have quite a nice inventory and will be bringing the ‘chain’ out each week. Email me if you would like a certain length or color. Smiles, Jill

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