Week Thirty-Two

I mentioned at one point a while back that I have a huge stone stash (and a moderate bead stash) as well.  It's not necessarily a huge stash just by volume, because it takes up a fairly modest amount of space.  But when you factor in how rarely I use stones in any of my work, the number of stones I do have starts to seem a lot higher.  I can't actually remember the last time I used stones in a physical piece- for the most part I just render imaginary stones.

But I've decided that it's time to step it up and start working and rendering around stones I already have.

Which of course meant that I caved, and bought more things.  (In part, there's a pearl design competition coming up, but we all know that was just an easy excuse.)

So here's a tiny snippet of the first of what will probably be several pearl related designs.

This is one of the pearls in a strand of lovely baroque pearls I acquired not long ago.  Some of the pearls in the strand were monsters, and some were delicate and gorgeous, so we'll see what else comes out of them.  I'll post the full design at some point in the near future (but you can catch a little glimpse of the surrounding piece down in the corner.)