Pretty Good Jewelry

Keshi pearl necklace + earrings

Most pearls are formed when nacre is deposited around a small irritant.  Keshi pearls, however, lack the central nucleus and tend to be flat rather than rounded.  Being pure nacre, they tend to be highly lustrous.  (You can see my other pearl necklaces here, here, here, here, here, and here.)

These pearls are about 5 to 6mm in diameter.  I strung them with small gold-filled saucers, and finished with a gold-filled lobster clasp.  The necklace is 17 inches long, and weighs 0.5 oz.

I made hoop earrings to match.  The hoops are gold-filled, about an inch in diameter.  The earrings weigh 0.1 oz.

Price: $83 (shipping is free)

Rainbow obsidian square-diamond bead-link necklace + earrings

Here's some gorgeous rainbow obsidian for you.  This is a really good batch: just look at that rainbow effect when the sun hits the beads!

I'm a sucker for that square diamond shape.  The diamonds measure between 20 and 21mm from corner to corner.  I joined each with gold-filled wire, and finished with a vermeil s-clasp from India.

The finished length is 21.75 inches, but you can wear it shorter by clasping the hook between two beads as shown.  The necklace weighs 2.5 oz.

I made matching earrings with gold-filled French hooks and vermeil charms.  The dangles are about 1.5 inches, and the earrings weigh 0.3 oz.

Price: $58 (shipping is free)

Drusy & black agate gold chain necklace + earrings

I found these drusy beads at a local bead store.  The crystals on the surface are very fine and sparkly!  The largest bead measures about 20x25mm.

I used gold-filled wire to link the drusy beads with small black agate nugget beads, and I then joined the bead-link unit to my favorite gold-filled figure 8 chain, finishing with a gold-filled trigger clasp.  The necklace is 16.5 inches long, and weighs 0.6 oz.

I made earrings to match.  The wire joining the beads and the French hooks are also gold-filled.  The longest dangle is 1.5 inches, and the earrings weigh 0.2 oz.

Price: $39.50 (shipping is free)

Boulder opal wire-wrapped pendant

I bought this cabochon because I loved the pattern.  It's boulder opal: streaks of opal in a surrounding matrix.  It does have a couple of pits on the front, but is otherwise smooth.

The cabochon measures about 32x25x5mm, weighing 36 carats.  I wrapped it with gold-filled wire.  The finished pendant is about 2 inches long, and weighs 0.4 oz.

Price: $37 (shipping is free)

Oval pyrite bead-link necklace

Here's a necklace made with Fool's Gold(aka pyrite) oval beads and real gold-filled wire, finished with a vermeil s-clasp.  (I thought the beads were too heavy for earrings, but I do have pyrite earrings here.)

The ovals measure 18x13mm.  The necklace is about 22.5 inches long, and weighs 2.7 oz.

Price: $42 (shipping is free)

Ametrine faceted necklace + earrings

Here's more ametrine.  The colors range from a little lighter to a little darker than those of the ametrine necklace I just posted.  These beads aren't perfect--some of the beads do have inclusions present--but the overall quality is fairly good.

The shape of the beads is not quite an oval, but too rounded to be a rectangle.  They are faceted, and are about 8 to 9mm long.  I set them off with little vermeil spacers from Bali, and finished with a vermeil hook & eye clasp.  The necklace is 17.25 inches long, and weighs 0.6 oz.

I made ear threads to match.  (I had a little bit of trouble in the 2nd picture: the friction that keeps ear threads in place in your ears isn't sufficient to keep them in my display stand without a little maneuvering.)  The ear threads are gold-filled and weigh less than 0.1 oz.  Their length from the end of the threader to the bottom of the bead dangle is about 3.75 inches (so less than 2 inches long when worn).

Price: $70 (shipping is free)

Citrine rough nugget bead-link necklace + earrings

These citrine nuggets are in a rough cut, not tumbled smooth, so they look like honey-flavored rock candy, good enough to eat!  The color is not uniform, but they are wonderfully translucent, like bits of late afternoon sunshine.

I joined the nuggets with gold-filled wire, finishing with a vermeil hook & eye clasp, putting the largest nuggets in the middle (they range in length from 12 to 27 mm.)

The necklace is 24 inches long (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp as shown), with a weight of 2.5 oz.

I made matching earrings with gold-filled headpins and 2mm round gold-filled beads.  The French hooks are also gold-filled.

The dangles are about an inch long, and the earrings weigh 0.1 oz.

Price: $48 (shipping is free)

Pearl nugget and gold-filled chain necklace + earrings

Here's the gold-filled counterpart to my previous necklace.  I used gold-filled figure eight chain, and finished with a gold-filled lobster clasp.  The necklace is 17 inches long, with a weight of 0.2 oz.

The matching earrings are made with gold-filled posts.  The longest dangle is about 1.25 inches, and the earrings weigh 0.2 oz.

Price: $26 (shipping is free)

Black obsidian carved rose bead-link necklace + earrings

These beads are plain ol' black obsidian, but they have been carved into roses.  (They're only roses on one side, with the other being dome-shaped.  I turned over the bead closest to the hook in the first picture so that you could see its back.)  They measure roughly 18mm from side to side.  I linked each with gold-filled wire, finishing with a vermeil hook & eye clasp.

The necklace is about 21.75 inches long (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp between two beads as shown), with a weight of 2.1 oz.

I made matching earrings with gold-filled French hooks and heart-shaped vermeil dangles.  The bead-links plus dangles are about 1.25 inches long, and the earrings weigh 0.2 oz.

Price: $51 (shipping is free)

Rainbow obsidian flat disk and gold-filled chain necklace + earrings

More obsidian!  This particular variety is rainbow obsidian: when the light shines on the beads at the correct angle, you can see a rainbow-like effect.

Here's a closeup that shows a bit of the rainbow effect:

Okay, on to the details.  The rainbow obsidian beads are flat disks, measuring about 12mm in diameter.  I made five obsidian and gold-filled wire links, and then connected them with my favorite figure 8 gold-filled chain.  I finished with a gold-filled lobster clasp.  The necklace is about 17.75 inches long, and weighs 0.2 oz.

The matching earrings are made with gold-filled headpins and post earrings.  The dangles are about an inch long, and the earrings weigh 0.1 oz.

Price: $30 (shipping is free)