Of All The Beads
Late Summer News
September 2008
Hazel Brutsché
Happy Birthday: Of All The
Beads is one year old! We're planning to celebrate with a party and
trunk show in October; stay tuned for the details.
It's Show Time! Will you be in Reston on September 20th? Stop by and see me at the Sunset Hills Montessori School craft show.
Next month I'll be attending an annual bead show where I have found some of the most unusual beads, such as the vintage glass chess beads in this bracelet.
Are you looking for something special? Call me or send an e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you!
During my summer travels, I found
some unusual and wonderful strands of beads, which of course I had to
bring home with me. Here's a sampling:
A What's New Preview: Next week on the What's New
page, look for wire-wrapped pendants, glass foil bracelets in green and
purple, some very unusual garnets, and delicate chain necklaces
dangling beads in rainbow hues.
Repairs: Broken clasp? String stretched out? Email me to request an estimate to repair your jewelry.
Sapphire, September's birthstone, is the
non-red variety of corundum (the red variety is ruby).
Blue is by far the most popular color for sapphires, but they can be
almost any color, including yellow, green, white, pink,
orange, brown, and purple. Padparadscha is the name for a rare
orange-pink variety.
When sapphires have inclusions of tiny needles, they exhibit an optical
property called asterism. This is what causes the star-shaped effect in star sapphires, which usually have six-ray stars, but
twelve-ray stars may also occur.
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