break the night with colour

I gotta put the u in colour because this is the title of a Richard Ashcroft song and he's British. Now I was years late to appreciating this song, apparently it came out in 2006 and I only downloaded it this summer. But oooh, I want Richard Ashcroft to just sing oooh to me nonstop. It's heady stuff, who knew a man could put so much emotion into one syllable? Seriously when I first downloaded this song I'd just hit repeat nonstop while on the treadmill, I thought of looping his ooohs so I could fall asleep to that, I'm sure it would guarantee very yummy dreams. This multi-strand bracelet has pearls that are the deepest blue black, coupled with paler bluish grey seed pearls and a strand of iridescent cut glass that sparkles blue, lavender and pink. Quite a conversation piece, this is a bracelet that would be a lovely accompaniment to a little black dress. 14kt gold-filled clasp, 8-1/4" in length. $41

in the pink

The popular saying is that diamonds are a girl's best friend but I think they are wrong. At the very least it's far too predictable. Pearls have a quality that diamonds cannot match and if you are lucky enough to have wonderful skin there is no gem, in my humble opinion, that equals the pearl in showcasing just what a gift a lovely complexion is. It's the luminous quality of the pearl that will make your skin look like it is lit from within. This is a simple, elegant pearl necklace of a muted petal pink a color that will suffuse you with an enviable glow no matter what your skin tone is. Pearl are separated by glass beads in the same petal pink. 14 kt gold-filled clasp 18-1/4" in length. $47

crushed peonies

I love peonies, they are gorgeous heady flowers with an amazing spectrum of the palest pinks. I have two peony plants in my backyard that give off lovely hot pink blooms in late spring. But the thing with peonies, perhaps just mine, they seem rather impractical from a darwinian plant perspective. They are lovely but as soon as the flowers bloom those stems then drop to the ground, like even the plant cannot bear that much beauty, and the petals drop off in a day or two tops. They are the very definition of ephemeral but still gorgeous all the same. Here's my beaded interpretation of crushed peonies, including some muted browns because I think flowers are incredible even when they start to fade. Pearls, garnet and glass beads on three strands 7-3/4" in length with a sterling silver clasp. $41

isle of skye

Thinking up names for my jewelry I'm sure of one thing, I need to travel more. Just looking at the google images of Isle of Skye I'm dying (don't even get me started on my quest to go to the blue lagoon in Iceland). But as for Scotland in general, how can one country be so beautiful? This necklace is similar to the gloaming except that it's a bit longer and has a robin's egg blue chalcedony teardrop as the focal piece of the necklace. Moonstone, garnet, tourmaline, turquoise and freshwater pearl make up the other semi precious gems, accompanied by sterling and glass beads this necklace is a striking conversation piece. 21-3/4" in length. $59

kiss kiss

Like two chocolate kisses to adorn your lovely lobes. These earrings would accompany the chocolove necklace perfectly. Two chocolatey tear drop shaped freshwater pearls with amber colored cut glass crystals atop each one. 14-kt gold-filled findings. 1-1/8" in length. $19

connect the dots

Yes, connecting the dots, usually on any paper menu at a family friendly restaurant. And, when it comes to my life, can seem so painfully obvious in hindsight but when you're living it, it's like a big rat's nest of knots or dots. Oh well, guess that can make life interesting. In this case the dots are gems, freshwater pearls of a lovely warm brown hue and various shades of griege (gray + beige = greige). I wonder what a book called fifty shades of greige would look like, perhaps a more literate take on what it takes to keep the fires burning with an attractive non cliche ridden middle aged couple? So I'm getting off track. There are also smoky quartz colored glass crystals strung along this fine 14 kt gold-filled chain. 18-7/8" in length it would look lovely with chocolove or at first blush. $37

chocolove

If you haven't had a Chocolove candy bar yet, don't start! You won't be able to resist the dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt, it's like a tastier, overpriced Hershey's with almonds.  Oooh, they have a pretzel in milk chocolate candy bar that's super yummy too. So this necklace is like my ode to chocolove, with chocolatey colored freshwater pearls accented with amber and smoky quartz cut glass crystal beads and bronze glass seed beads. 14 kt gold-filled toggle clasp. 26-3/4" in length. $47