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Dryad Tourmaline by *magpie-poet:iconmagpie-poet:

Categories Artisan Crafts > Jewelry

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14k gold fill for the bracelet and clasp, 12k gold fill chain. (I just love the shape of that chain and can't get it any other way, sorry...) Mostly green tormeline with a little bit of peridot in the center to bring out the lighter colors.

This was supposed to be a bracelet, and practice for the one I was making my mother for Mother's Day. It got out of hand.

So much twisted square wire, more 26 ga wire, and an emergency infusion of 28 ga wire, and lots of green tourmaline later...

I was torn between bracelet and necklace. It's fun to play with and toss around as a bracelet, but hangs really nicely as a necklace. So it's essentially a bracelet, but comes with chain and a clasp to turn it into an 18" necklace.

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*horai Jun 28, 2009, 2:19:24 AM
That is clever, pretty, cool, and a really awesome concept.

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:flaguk: Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time. - Moondog
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*Jacava Jun 28, 2009, 2:50:02 AM
That's really clever and very very pretty. I really like the bracelet/necklace idea.
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=goldenSalamander Jun 28, 2009, 9:13:12 AM
i'm studying this one to figure out how it's constructed...looks like twisted wire and links...did you make the links too?

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*magpie-poet Jun 28, 2009, 8:03:16 PM
Neither my job nor my mother's are bracelet friendly type jobs, so I wanted convertibles for us, and figured we probably weren't the only ones who ran across that problem.

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"These days there are angry ghosts all around us--dead from wars... sickness... starvation... and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well so what, so's the whole damn world." -- Princess Mononoke
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*magpie-poet Jun 28, 2009, 8:03:47 PM
Thanks. It's super loosly based on some indian ruby jewelry I've seen.

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"These days there are angry ghosts all around us--dead from wars... sickness... starvation... and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well so what, so's the whole damn world." -- Princess Mononoke
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*magpie-poet Jun 28, 2009, 8:04:58 PM
Yep. The twisted wire is 22 ga left overs from my wraps that I save up and turn into links :) then do wrapped loops withthe oval beads to connect them.

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"These days there are angry ghosts all around us--dead from wars... sickness... starvation... and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well so what, so's the whole damn world." -- Princess Mononoke
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*horai Jun 29, 2009, 3:40:08 AM
I really like the necklace/bracelet idea.

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:flaguk: Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time. - Moondog
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*horai Jun 29, 2009, 2:43:17 PM
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Because I think it's brilliant.

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:flaguk: Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time. - Moondog
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*magpie-poet Jun 29, 2009, 6:16:30 PM
:boogie: I made a Bernie feature :D

ooh, and there's a bunny there too!

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"These days there are angry ghosts all around us--dead from wars... sickness... starvation... and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well so what, so's the whole damn world." -- Princess Mononoke
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