Post #312338 by Paipo on Mon, Jun 11, 2007 8:07 PM

Thanks Ben, Amy, Jonesey, Kahaka, Benella, Sneaky, Virani Clarita and G. I wanted to make something a little more jewellery oriented than just the usual tiki-on-a-string with this one.
I clocked up a few hours today on a bigger piece in the Rarotongan basalt which I hope will be done by tommorrow.

G, that bead does look a lot like a snowflake. It's a modified take on some Marquesan surface patterns, and I did it with a tiny disc cutter - maybe 2.5mm diameter? The stone is about 1/2" long.
Because I basically made this up as I went (as always!), once I had the wee marq done I knew I needed something else to make the necklace a little fancier. I actually made and discarded about 3 other beads before I settled on the two I used. I also ended up stringing it twice to get it just right! The white bead is also stone (the mystery stone I used for my white marq #17) and the other beads are coconut.

As for the tiny pebbles, I have a special beach I get those from (if you want to know where it is you'll have to come and visit me!). I fill a bucket from the appropriate zone and sort them for size and symmetry when I get home. Then I pick through them again when I need a matched set for a necklace. By the time I do all that sorting and drill the 60-odd stones, a simple looking piece ends up taking quite a while...

[ Edited by: Paipo 2007-06-13 01:28 ]