Re: Anyone hate working with specific colors?

Hey, sounds lovely!! And the mother of the bride is wearing black?? Not happy with the groom?? (G)

I was just messing around with some mint green pearls and silver chain and made up a simple necklace to wear as an everyday thing. Problem is I rarely wear jewellery, lol. But have been designing an Amazonite and pearl necklace with brushed silver. The pacific opal bicones are a bit off on the colour, so going to try something else. Got over to BeadFX and Dwyn helped me out with the colour thing......thank goodness.

Remind me to tell you all one day about the *really bizarre* gypsy bride we met up with in Portugal.....and her equally bizarre family. I thought she was a hooker and didn't realize the desk clerk spoke english......bwa ha ha. He was in stitches.

Night.....Heather in sweltering Toronto.

Cosmo type wedding.  UUGH!

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for Swarovski crystals I would have thought Indian red (but maybe that;s because I have those). I don't know of any non-dyed red gemstones unless you consider coral gemstones (and they most certainly won't match the Indian red Swaros)

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry Website:

Etsy:

Maren,

I have some Indian Red Swaro's too, but the color is just a bit too "orangey". Mother of the bride said the bridesmaid dresses were a true red, and when I sent her images of different Swaro colors, she said the closest was the light Siam. So, that's what I went with, but its hard to find all the different Swaro bead types in that color. Believe me, I searched!!

Its hard to gauge color from a monitor screen, especially if we're talking Swaro's and CZ... not to mention that the color will change depending on the lighting that was present during the photography. It always seemed to me that matching reds was harder than matching any other color. Not sure why - just is I guess.

Sterling

Sterling,

for Swarovski crystals I would have thought Indian red (but maybe that;s because I have those). I don't know of any non-dyed red gemstones unless you consider coral gemstones (and they most certainly won't match the Indian red Swaros)

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry Website:

Etsy:

Does that mean you never use purple shades in your designs??

Sterling

I also adore violets and purples but don't make them up as much as greens and blues. It all depends on what strikes my fancy, I guess. I am still new enough at this to try out all the different things that I see in the books that I like.

I love pearls and do a lot with those. Did you notice in your elections last year that Clinton, Pelosi and Obama were often wearing a mix of about

12 mm alternating colours of pearls? Did those in copper, gold and ivory. And another one in mint green and ivory.

I have sold a few bracelets and necklaces, but am just not ready to get all that commercial yet. I have 2 neighbours who wear only the simplest of necklaces, so I made each of them the one that they admired.

Sheesh, it isn't even full moon and here I am yakking your ears off, lol. But I sure would love to see this group come back to even a semblance of what I understand it once was.

Cheers....Heather

As a rule I try to avoid them. I did make a pendant using some amethyst chips because they were the only ones available to me at the time.

A few years ago on the group we had a contest for making something in a colour we did not like. I made a beaded tassel. I was fortunate to win the contest. The prize was donated by Kathy NV and her daughter pulled the name out of the hat. The prize was 50 dollars but rather than try to get cash to me I got some of Kandice Seeber's beads instead.

My dislike stems from a childish thing. During world war two when I was at school. Everything was in short supply and the only paints they had at school was the few basic primary colours. A violent purple was one. I used to get a headache when using it. Never like it since. Also if I put purple, mauve or violet coloured clothes on me I look awful and sallow looking. Just not my colour.

I will not use it in embroidery either. Hugs Shirley

In message , Sterling writes

ORANGE!!!!1

It looks hideous on me as well.

x-no-archive: yes >As a rule I try to avoid them.

Dark amythest chips look gorgeous with copper shadow Swarovski bicones...

I think you probably won the contest - aside from how good your tassel might have been - because you were working in a colour that many people actually like. :)

That's an interesting story. The irony is that purple used to be associated with English royalty, and was not able to be worn by commoners. LOL

I'm the opposite - those colours are my best makeup colours (LOVE an "amythest" shade of lipstick with gold/blue metallic flecks!). Still if you wear a big block of any colour that doesnt suit your complexion, of course it's going to make you look ill (me = ORANGE and yellow).

Not even flowers?

You! A jewelry maker and you hardly wear jewelry? And I thought I was one of a kind!!! Myself, I wear my wedding band, my watch, and occasionally I wear my Sapphire ring. That's about it. I sort of got away from wearing jewelry. Most people ask me about my own jewelry box when they find out I make jewelry and I usually just say "yeah, I have a lot" cause they wouldn't understand that I love to make it and see other people wearing my creations, but I don't particularly like to wear it. Weird huh??

FYI, I have some fantastic Amazonite pebbles that are a robins egg blue (creamy blue with a touch of green - not a teal, and not your usual powder blue) and I paired them with Light Azore Swaro's. It seems to be the only Swaro color that works well with them since the hues are in the same family. If you've never seen Light Azore before, don't be alarmed when you look at them on the computer screen. Monitors just don't do them justice. Think clear natural Aquamarine... the color is almost exact.

Maybe we can get the NG back if we all start chatting a bit more. I mean, all I did was ask a simple question about color and look what started? We got a pretty deep thread going... and if more people would contribute, then we can bring back the NG.

I think asking questions, sharing ideas, and debating methods would bring back this NG. "We" as in all of us, just have to make sure we don't scare off the new posters and the new jewelry makers. I seem to remember several years ago when this NG was more active, that a lot of people would get thrashed for asking innocent questions. Let not do that. I am sure plenty of you have been to rec.crafts.jewelry before and see how dead that's become... maybe we could take a lessen from some of them and not do the "I am better than you cause I've been doing this longer than you have - scoff" kinda thing.

So, lets start asking those bizarre questions. You just never know whats gonna come out of it.

*grins*

Sterling

LOL!! I wear my wedding rings and a gold chain bracelet.......if I go out I add gold hoop earrings and perhaps a neck chain. That's it. Is it age? Could be cuz I am retired so don't have to dress for the office.

As for your suggestion re the light azore swaros, I do have some and will try them with it tonight or tomorrow. Excellent idea. I think Dwyn mentioned them too. The amazonite leans more to the greenish than robin's egg tho. I have 3 strands in different sizes and none match. Blast!! My daughter (Elayne) is good with the "hues" and colour matches. She is a graphic artist and more. (photographer, painter, etc)

Hey, good idea about keeping the chit chat going. There is absolutely no one in this town who is a beader that I know of. And we have 2 Michaels stores but no LBS, so it is so nice to ask advice and compare notes. Toronto is so big that it takes me 1.5 hours to get to BeadFX on a good day, so that isn't in the cards. About 3 or 4 million people, if that gives you an idea. I would love to take a bead crocheting class that they teach, but

3 hours of driving takes the fun out of it.

Cheers.....Heather

Pink, unless it's at least as loud as light siam or fuchsia. (looks hideous on me too :) )

In fact, all "spring colors".

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Etsy:

Yeah well, I bought Kalera's studio clearance collection. It has 2 pink sets in it. I'll do something with them :)

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The only color I don't think I've ever used is yellow. I am drawn to ocean colors and purple (sorry, Shirley!) for my own personal jewelry, but I've had requests for jewelry in every color of the rainbow. WHen I do a show, the first color people seem to be drawn to is purple, then red and blue. I've even had requests for earrings in orange. So I try to have several pieces in every color when I set up, and enough stock to replace the ones that sell.

Linda2

Cheers, Carla

Khaki. Ugh. I just tried a new (to me) glass last night and it came out Khaki. I've decided that's it - that the colour I can't stand - I can't even be objective about the shape of the bead - because the colour is getting in the way.

hummm, Khaki Swaro's kinda go good with many gemstone beads... I think I like Khaki... but it has to be the right shade of khaki I guess.

Its strange how many different colors we each don't like to work with.

Sterling

Hmmm, if I called it "sage green" would you like it better?? I happen to LOVE sage green and am trying to imagine whether khaki is different. Is it? Just a thought.

Cheers...Heather

I would be willing to bet a sou or two that the colours we love and hate stem from something in our distant past. Silly as it may seem, I won't wear a print with flowers in it.

When I was 4 or 5, a bee stung me out of the blue, while I was wearing a pretty little flowered dress and I have never gotten over that!! I hate bees and I hate flowered prints, LOL!!

Heather

That'd be nice with a combination of black and olive green...

I think sage green is more of a silverish green gray ... if you know what I mean. I like all colors, with Blue being my favorite, but I don't like working with Reds. Weird huh?

I finished the jewelry, imaged them all, and put it up on a temporary page on the net....

Its funny, but I re-did the red jewelry about 5 times each till I settled on what you see. Like I said before, the blue and green jewelry were a lot of fun to make cause those two have to be my favorite colors to work with. Sterling