So Many Beads, So Little Time...

Sigh... the addiction strikes again...

If, ten years ago, the local Fortune Teller or favorite witchy-woman Morgan had told me that I'd someday develop an unhealthy compulsion to acquire every fascinating stone I saw, I would have expressed myself with a little snort of derision, or even cackling laughter. And if you're looking at this page, or have visited my shops (www.suzyrocksdesigns.etsy.com, www.suzyrocksdesigns.artfire.com), then you know you're in the same helpless boat.

What can we do? What WILL we do???

Buy more stones, probably, and continue to wallow in the gloriousness of them all...

Here are a few not-yet-made-up pretties, with the red line jasper sending a special nod to the Divine Ms. C, fabulous collaborator and customer.

Red Line Jasper! A new love, and these wedges are just amazing. These three are the same size, and in addition to the expected cream and orange-red tones, have areas of stormy-grey clouds. Beautiful indeed. Once made into earrings, these would have a drop of just under 2".

Baby Red Line Jasper wedges - very sweet, little Creamsicles with trails of raspberry syrup running through them! Their drop when finished would be around 1-1/4".

Be still my heart! A single Red Line Jasper stone with deliriously gorgeous markings. I'm hoping to have a mate for this one soon; if not, it will grace a special, beautiful necklace. As a pair of earrings, these would drop to around 2-1/4".

This perfect pair, again showing some grey storm clouds, will drop around 1-3/4".

Perfect, lovely lapis lazuli teardrops. No further words are necessary.

Yummy smooth amazonite kite/chevrons! So interesting, with their dark veins and powder-blue coloring. Watch for these as a pair of earrings in my Etsy shop very soon.

Here's my first pair of Red Line Jasper earrings, currently available in my Etsy shop. These drop a little over 1-1/2", and I used little Celtic thunderbolts as their copper accents. I often use either closed or semi knots on these as well.

Also on the upcoming menu: pretty mauvy-pink rhodonite wedges; striking ocean jasper; tilak-shaped high-grade forest-green quartz; sea sediment jasper; faceted mookaite teardrops; mozambique garnet, marquise-cut; and more wonderful aqua terra jasper wedges.

See what I mean? So helplessly hooked...

Sigh...

-Suzy

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a wonderful, warm holiday season, and that you're all settling comfortably into 2011. I wound up 2010 as contented as a cat with cream on her whiskers after a remarkable sales season, but just a wee bit burned out! In an effort to crank up the creative spirit, I opened my Artfire shop (http://www.suzyrocksdesigns.artfire.com/) which will eventually feature a slightly different line of items - I'm thinking bright, fun, brassy, swingy, budget wedding, but still with my Celtic bent. In the meantime, here's a sampling of the new, yummy pieces about to appear in my Etsy shop (http://www.suzyrocksdesigns.etsy.com/).

Tiger Iron Jasper wedges (yum!)

Red Line Jasper (gorgeous, like looking at brilliant cloudy sunsets)

Rose Quartz wands - so feminine and pretty. Valentine-y, perhaps...?

Dynamite, fascinating Chohua Jasper. These are diamond shaped, and I'm keeping an eye open for more.

Black, black, sophisticated onyx wedges that are the perfect foil for copper wrap.

Labradorite, my favorite, always! These stones are smooth, heart-shaped briolettes, and I have them in various colors. They're fairly large, and just wonderful.

And lastly - though by no means leastly - a very special pair of earrings created in collaboration with the Divine Ms. C, who has dibs on this particular pair, though I have more available. These are smooth, fairly flat black turquoise wands, wrapped in slender copper wire with a gorgeous, turquoise-blue flash eye. Mystical, magical, marvelous!

Thanks for stopping by, and you're welcome to visit me soon at http://www.suzyrocksdesigns.etsy.com/ and http://www.suzyrocksdesigns.artfire.com/!

-Suzy