Before I was a knitter/crocheter, I was a beader. I spent hundreds of dollars on beads each month making my own jewelry, giving them as gifts, adorning other trinkets. My favorites are semi-precious stones because of the heavy feel of wearing beautiful tiny rocks as jewelry. Not commuting to an office over the past year had led to my old beaded necklaces sitting in a drawer for months. Pulling them out and appreciating the beautiful stones gave me inspiration to re-vamp them into new works.
The first one I re-created was a rhodonete, hematite, rose quartz necklace. The shiny metalic appearance of hematite goes well with the translucent rose quartz and matte rhodenite. I added larger round rhodentite to this new necklace to give it more length and variety in appearance.
I have a couple more that will get makeovers soon, updates to follow!
