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65 bead lot: Czech glass multicolor fruit-salad shapes
$ 10.55
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(I've revised this bead mix from its original version, so if you've bought these before, you may want to recheck the description/pix.)I'm making another desperate attempt to reduce my bead stash, so here's a 65-bead lot of pressed-glass shapes I've picked out in a festive fruit-salad theme: three-dimensional pears/apples and flat vein-patterned leaves in a mix of colors. All of the beads are top-quality imported Czech glass.
The first picture shows the full assortment of loose beads. (The 13 extra beads along the top are temporarily strung to show the borehole placement and are not included.)
-- 15 yellow-orange fruit (mostly 10mm pears and a few 12mm apples), each one has a red blush painted over one side. The red blush occasionally flakes off if the beads thwack against each other too much :(
-- 5 blush-painted 10mm green pears and 5 blush-painted 10mm white pears; all ten of these are made of uranium glass.
-- 5 lentil disc drops in goldstone-streaked pale yellow uranium glass.
-- 25 7x12mm leaf/petal drops in a mini-assortment of two tawny bicolor blends (each individual leaf is a two-toned blend, though the individual proportions will vary). One bicolor is lemonade-yellow streaked with pale apricot; the other is darker topaz yellow mixed with light green.
-- 10 more leaf/petal drops that usually look pale green. They're actually another subtle bicolor blend with neodymium "alexandrite" glass, which is violet in most lights except for fluorescents, which turn it blue; the neo-alex mostly disappears into diluting the green hue.
The temporary strand along the top represents a 1/5 proportional sample to give some idea of how this mix looks when strung; it's about 2.75" long, so the entire assortment will give you a bit over 13" total length-- not enough for a necklace by itself, but I'm sure your own stash already has some fabulous spacer beads that could mix in with them.
The second pic shows the same reference strand with the loose uranium-glass beads under an incandescent lamp on a black background; it's mostly there as a reference image for the third picture (same beads under UV light).
The lentils are rather hard to see when strung; the one on the reference strand is the third bead from the left, and seems to've successfully hiddden from the UV light in the last pic. On reflection, they're kinda useless in this mix; if you want me to replace them with five more leaves, let me know.
Please check out some of my other pretties, and thanks for looking! ^_^