It's in a local gallery for $300. The sun marble is between golf ball and pool ball size. Actually, I did look up the relative sizes of the planets, and while I knew I couldn't make them to scale, tried to keep them in some sense of proportion.
You are brilliant! As soon as I have studio time I will play with this idea... what fun!
Hehe that's cool, Louis!
Tink, I'm seeing a ring of clear around the bead, with another ring of your color of choice, and another thing ring of clear, and so on. It could just suggest the optical illusion of detached rings... OR! You could build a separate "ring bead" that woulg be a ring with holes through either end. It could be done! Especially with boro. Which reminds me of a post I'm about to make...
One more thing added to my "when we hit the lottery" list. Not that it's not worth every penny, it's just out of *my* budget!
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If you tried to keep them in proportion, if the Sun were to be a basketball, Earth would be a pea! Now, scale that down to something wearable... LOL
Here's some pics of our planets:
The Moon - iron pyrite Asteroid belt - meteorites! What are they called tektites or something like that?
Mexican Fire Opal would be awesome for the sun...
Wow, somebody do it!!! LOL
Tektites, yeah, though *I'm* not sure about my spelling. :) But would they be the dumbbell or the button ones?
I want to play this game! :)
Mercury - almandine (iron) garnet (but more brown that the usual red-brown) Venus - milky quartz, lighter smoky quartz (preferably with some faint banding) Earth - lapis lazuli, sapphire Mars - carnelian Jupiter - agate (sardonyx), but with a higher proportion of red/orange/yellow banding than white Saturn - tiger's eye Uranus - peridot Neptune - lapis lazuli Pluto - I liked someone else's suggestion of hematite
The person who came up with the donut beads to solve the problem of the ringed planets was totally inspired. I was thinking along the lines of circular peyote (clear inner rings, then bands of silver/silver-lined clear) threaded through the larger bead hole.
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