Since I buy my own beads, it's a hardship to *my* wallet! But I salvaged this one; turns out I had a few citrine rondelles (left over from another project) that could substitute for the "pineapple quartz". The rest of the necklace is salmon-pink coral and amazonite, with a mixed "cherry/pineapple quartz" pendant. It looks like a tropical sunset!
Celine
From now it will be a hardship to my wallet too. If I don't sell, I don't buy and that's that. Lucky for me I had two custom necklaces to make and sell.
Your necklace sounds dreamy! Can we see?
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Margie :
]From now it will be a hardship to my wallet too. If I don't sell, I ]don't buy and that's that.
i'm finding myself in the same position. darn it!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
Keeps us from going to the poor house but oooohhhhh...the pain of it all!
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindCHEMISEspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :
]mixed "cherry/pineapple quartz"
sorry - i have to ask. is it quartz or glass?
i avoided one dealer at the gem show when i saw a label that said "cherry quartz". the gem club swears it is EXTREMELY rare.
and now i'm confuzzled again.
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Margie :
]the pain of it all!
on more than one level!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
Vickie,
I've seem strawberry natural quartz, but it's nothing at all like the Cherry Quartz. or Pineapple Quartz glass beads. Just think in terms of rose quartz, and if its qualities are a lot different, you can be pretty sure it's not any natural stone.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :
]I've seem strawberry natural quartz, but it's nothing at all like the Cherry ]Quartz. or Pineapple Quartz glass beads. Just think in terms of rose ]quartz, and if its qualities are a lot different, you can be pretty sure ]it's not any natural stone.
yes - thanks! the rose quartz and cherry "quartz" were side by side on the table - and there was a noticeable difference.
just making sure i'm not losing "it". some of the rock/gem club members are fascinated by what we discuss here. now, if i could just get some of them online!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
I'd love to get the rock authorities to come on-line and contribute.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :
]I'd love to get the rock authorities to come on-line and contribute.
so would i! i keep trying. most of them, however, don't even have e-mail. and i suspect they might have a hard time wading through a lot of the OT stuff [that's NOT a complaint - just an observation]
there are a couple of geologists in the group and some incredibly knowledgeable amateurs.
i'm still hoping to go on some of their field trips - if they have one close enough to not involve camping!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
That's why I had it in quotes. "Cherry quartz", "pineapple quartz", and "blueberry quartz" are all trade names for different colors of a manmade glass stone. The pendant I used in this necklace has some of *both* the pink and the light yellow swirly stuff in it.
Now, I do have a necklace, bought about 10 years ago, which was sold to me as "cherry quartz". It does not look ANYTHING like the stone currently being sold under that name; it's opaque and so dark I initially thought it was garnet. I have been given to understand that this *is* a natural, and very rare, coloration of quartz, related to the process that makes rose quartz. That may be what your gem & mineral club is talking about.
Celine
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindCHEMISEspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :
]That's why I had it in quotes. "Cherry quartz", "pineapple quartz", and ]"blueberry quartz" are all trade names for different colors of a manmade glass ]stone. The pendant I used in this necklace has some of *both* the pink and the ]light yellow swirly stuff in it.
sorry! yes - i missed the quote marks and didn't realize what it meant!
]Now, I do have a necklace, bought about 10 years ago, which was sold to me as ]"cherry quartz". It does not look ANYTHING like the stone currently being sold ]under that name; it's opaque and so dark I initially thought it was garnet. I ]have been given to understand that this *is* a natural, and very rare, ]coloration of quartz, related to the process that makes rose quartz. That may ]be what your gem & mineral club is talking about.
you would be right - yes, that sounds JUST like what the club was talking about.
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, here's another trade name to watch out for: "Candy Jade". It's cool-looking stuff, lovely mixtures of color within the same stone. I've seen it in white/green/purple, white/pink/light green, white/yellow/orange, red/orange/dark green, and several other color schemes.
This stuff is no more "jade" than I'm Chinese! Some of it appears to be dyed serpentine, from the look and feel; this would fit with the common practice of calling solid-color dyed serpentine "New Jade".[1] Some of it, as far as I can tell, is just plain opaque glass. So buy it and use it if you want to, but don't let anyone tell you that it's really jade.
[1] IMO this is the best use for serpentine. In its natural state it is a butt-ugly stone that doesn't go with anything else! Dyeing it opens up a whole range of possibilities.Celine
Speaking of which, Frederick's of Hollywood has a number of non-Swarovski-made items which they describe as being made with "Swarovski crystals" among other components.
-Kalera
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