This month we have started lots of new bracelets, as loved ones prepare for the holidays and buy each other gifts from the heart… but today we started a particularly beautiful one, and I just had to share the composition that this brand new collector has created. Over the last week or so we’ve met with this client a few times to discuss colour palettes and favorite beads, and today she created the lovely bracelet above.
Like most of us, she can’t take home all of her beads at once – she picked one very special bead to begin, and has “wishlisted” the remainder of the design, hoping that her family will come by the shop to add to her new collection.
I love this design for a few reasons…
first, it’s wonderfully neutral, but far from boring. It has rich, wonderful colour and incorporates brown, black, grey, amber, bone and even white, which makes it so very wearable, and easily modified for changing seasons or simply moods.
She has chosen a variety of textures and patterns – natural faceted stone, smooth glass, detailed silver and even a prism. The glass are striped, transparent, opaque, swirled and bubbled, but the cohesive palette maintains a clear design theme.
It’s important to incorporate yellow gold into this design, as the client wears both silver and yellow gold, and would like the bracelet to complement the rest of her jewellery. However, mindful of budget, she has wish listed 18k gold stoppers as a more affordable way to add a touch of the precious metal to her design. In addition, she has placed a “Silver Trace, Gold” close to the center of the design, where it has great impact.
Clockwise from top: “18k gold stopper”, “Wildcat”, “White Steel”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “Labradorite”, “Silver Maternity”, “White Stripe”, “Silver Trace, Gold”, “Large Berry”, “Grey Prism”, “Organic Stripe”, “18k gold stopper”.
So which bead do you think she picked to begin? Which one would you pick? We always advise people to select the one that is the most unusual and special in the group… the one that they just might never see again. So…
She picked the “golden” labradorite!
C.
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