Bead guilty pleasures

I've never heard of this purple turquoise. Do you have a picture?

Ok. Here's my guilty bead pleasure: I absolutely LOVE garnet and amethyst glass rondelles. Better than the real thing.

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I like citrine. Can't get enough of it. I don't care what shape, or whether it is colored glass or the real thing...gotsta have it.

Patti -- I like the occasional piece of plastic, especially if it is flowers. Can't use it because it is "just not done." But like it anyway. LOL.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Shhh....I have a couple of lucite flower pendants that I love!

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:53:57 -0400, BeckiBead wrote (in message ):

Sometimes I use crappy old 6/0 seed beads from the department store for the insides of beaded spirals. For some reason their uneven size adds quite a bit of interest to the finished product.

And yes, I use plastic once in a while, mostly in conjunction with glass or stone beads to reduce weight. After my spinal fusion last year, I've been especially aware of how a heavy necklace can be seriously uncomfortable. (YSMV - your spine may vary)

Kathy N-V

Also, there are some absolutely fun beads & charms that come only in plastic.... "Tropical Fruits" or "Jungle Animals" HK charms, for example, and glow in the dark beads (the only glass ones I've seen are Tink specials...). Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Fluorite and tourmaline beads - I love the colors so much, but I don't make jewelry much anymore, so I don't buy much. But I adore the blending purple, pink and green colors. Mmmmmmm. I also love anything Swarovski and would someday love to own some in every color just to look at. :) And sterling silver charms that are handmade in lots of nature or fantasy themes just kill me. I can drool all day. And of course certain lampwork artists make me want to cry at the beauty they create.

I am just guilty all over. LOL

Oh, I really love some of those lucite flowers!!

I have so many!

I am addicted to Japanese seed beads - especially size 15's.

I hate most plastic beads. I refer to myself as a glass ho.

I love lampwork but seldom use it because then I can't fondle it.

I am not addicted to natural stone - the cost difference between glass and natural stone is a huge part of the reason for that.

I seldom use Czech seed beads with the exception of charlottes.... *g*

My beads have to be organized. The rest of the house can be chaotic but my beads need to be organized by color and size/shape.

I firmly believe that she who dies with the most beads wins! and I mean to win!

Pamy Pamela Welborn Beading Design Creation and Instruction Buy My Kits -

My newset guilty pleasure is size 8/0 seed beads. Especially Matsunos, but Czech are great too.

Before that, I had a penchant for die cut vellum--and I'm trying to figure out a way to combine decoupage with beads:)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comNOSPAM (Pamela Welborn) :

]My beads have to be organized. The rest of the house can be chaotic but my ]beads need to be organized by color and size/shape.

and in the case of lampwork, by maker.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

But those aren't *guilty* pleasures.

I love those realistic plastic matte flower beads too.

And I use those odd sized cheapo beads to increase diameter of peyote bowls without increasing the number of beads. I also like them for free-style.

And I use handmade Indian "Bali" bead spacers, especially the daisy ones and just refer to them as sterling. And like them just fine.

Tina

Only recently got into lucite. Started doing spiral rope and then received some lucite beads from Hong Kong and had to try to combine them. Not too bad for a first try I think. Necklace went back to Hong Kong to the person who found the beads. She had to have it. Kerry (DW) is addicted to anything with a hole in it, wood, glass, gold, silver, bone, pearls, cinnabar, you name it. She is the real artist in the family. Take a look if you want.

I adore citrine too! Never felt guilty about it though... I can always start. ;)

-Kalera

You guys kill me. That's gorgeous... you even make plastic look expensive!

-Kalera

You beat me to it, Kalera. That piece is haunting my waking thoughts now lol. I keep flashing on it.

OMTP!

Stephanie

My guilty pleasure is those lab-created beads that have a goofy, GORGEOUS luminescence. I love a lot of lab-created "semi-precious" beads, actually. I can't help it. I can't! ~~ Sooz