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I've been away since Sunday and have been AWAY FROM MY JEWELRY. It's just been terrible! Ha ha...just kidding. Jon took me to Vermont and it was actually lovely. AND I got to stop in at a beadstore in Brattleboro, Vermont, called Beadnicks, and I picked up some supplies. : ) i got a few amethyst briolettes, some lapis lazuli beads, some rose quartz briolettes, and some big chunky apatite coins! Fun fun.

This afternoon, I finished up some swirlies I started on Saturday, did a spiral design I saw in a store in Brattleboro and kept working on refining "the paperclip."

These have rutilated quartz (gold streaks) briolettes. Right now, they don't match. I realize that. : ) I'll have to do a better match and switch one of them out. These were a real challenge getting them to look the same.

These are just some fun onyx danglies.

Swirlie with a green swarovski crystal.

I have a lot of new designs I want to try, but I feel like I should do some "housekeeping." There are a lot of designs that I've done one of, but never a matching pair. In order to clear my table of prototypes, I need to make some matchies and just put them in boxes and hopefully sell them. : ) I'm trying my hardest to not buy any more inventory until I sell some of the stuff I've already made. I like having a big inventory, but i don't want THAT big of an inventory.