beading: Mookaite Fiddlejoy Necklace
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kGiven the imperative to avoid face touching, I’ve been cranking out jewelry that gives me something to fiddle with. This “fiddlejoy” necklace combines round and rice-shape mookaite beads — mostly burgundy color — with some sparkly red rondelles. Hanging from the center is a 40mm mookaite ring with a 12mm bead suspended inside.
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Date: 2020-03-22 07:58 pm (UTC)I hadn't heard of mookaite, so I looked it up. Some quotes for your entertainment:
"Mookaite is an Australian Jasper of bold, earthy beauty with a fiery fusion of red and yellow energies. It carries an invigorating frequency of strength and vitality, and increases Life Force within the physical body."
"Like an espresso for the soul, the Mookaite crystal is an excellent all-over energizer that cleanses and activates the root chakra, sacral chakra, and solar plexus chakra."
Thanks!
Date: 2020-03-22 08:02 pm (UTC)The nifty thing about mookaite is it's very lightweight and takes a lovely polish. Jaspers in general are less dense than agates; mookaite beads weigh half of an agate bead the same shape. While my pic featured burgundy, tomorrow you'll see the wide rainbow mookaite offers, sometimes within a single bead.
Re: Thanks!
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Date: 2020-03-22 08:13 pm (UTC)This often means that the permissions are not set so that I can see it
Thank you so much!
Date: 2020-03-22 08:17 pm (UTC)Turns out that when I post an image by email, it defaults to access-only. I manually changed access on the POST, but I also have to manually change access on DW's iteration of the image.
Hosting images is hard, yo!
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Date: 2020-03-22 08:52 pm (UTC)That's really lovely.
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Date: 2020-03-22 08:53 pm (UTC)What stringing material are you using? (I've got lots of beads and probably less material appropriate to build them into jewelry.)
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Date: 2020-03-22 09:31 pm (UTC)I secure each end with two twisted (aka tornado) crimps that close with any pliers, and make sure to stuff the crimp full, even when that means threading a wire back through a third time.
In this necklace, and any other piece where I'm only using a single pass through 11° beads or larger, I use "medium," 0.019" in SoftFlex. South Pacific Trading Company has a great deal right now: US$32 for 100 feet. AND I just noticed they lowered their minimum purchase to $25 -- go wild. I suspect South Pacific was the first online beading store -- at beading.com -- their prices & service are A+. They were out of one strand I ordered, so they swapped in three similar ones. Their motto is "Do not fester. To fester is bad."
When I'm threading smaller beads, I use the "thin," 0.014" SoftFlex.
I'll stop now.
Re: I just realized I could babble about beading for hours
Date: 2020-03-22 10:06 pm (UTC)Will be working on getting things organized on days it's rainy.
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Date: 2020-03-22 10:36 pm (UTC)I actually have some beading items that need to be glued here that have been waiting for months for me to get to it. Maybe in a few weeks when I can get some ventilation with open windows I'll finally get that done and put away the box!
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