My Collections Series was born of my love, not just of jewelry, but of the beads themselves. It's a beads, for beads sake, thing.
Out of this love came the idea to create miniature collections for others.
The Final Frontier collection is wired to a 38 inch (96.5 cm) length of handcrafted sterling silver cable chain with flattened round links of alternating diameters (18.7mm, 12.7mm and 9.6mm).
The closure is an offset hand-dyed silk ribbon.
Final Frontier is easily worn at 22.5 inches (57cm), 38 inches (96.5cm), or anywhere in between, and expandable depending on the way you tie the ribbon.
It can even be worn as a belly chain-- it's that long!
The space inspired collection of Final Frontier includes:
A silver cored lampwork bead streaked in blue, teal, yellow, purple and red from Amy of AKDlampwork.
Nebula, made with transparent purple at the core, silver rich Psyche and transparent glasses with a sheen of goldstone inside that looks like stardust, from Kevin Moran Aponte of Dancing Star Beads.
A set of sparkling, swirling, sungold borosilicate beads by Lynn Nurge of LaffingGull.
A matte, iridescent bit with licks of purple, blue and copper by Pauline McCabe of PaulinaBeads.
Sky Diamonds, fine silver stars and ethereal cosmic streaks over a deep space black base by Amber Van Meter of Naos Glass.
A brilliant royal blue/ black dichroic (two-colored) bit from my collection. The invention of dichroic glass is often erroneously attributed to NASA but the technique (involving layering silica and metal oxides) has been around since at least the 4th century AD.
A tektite, a natural glass rock which is is formed by the impact of large meteorites on Earth's surface.
A fabulous slider, ringed like Saturn, by Leah Deeb of Beads of Passion.
A piece of flashy blue spectrolite, wire wrapped.
A fascinating, planetary lentil of black, teal and silver by Pam Brisse of The Blue Between.
Flight, a tab bead of double helix silver and dark transparent blue purple by Jason Powers of Jasio.
Two more pieces of dichroic glass by Paula Radke in barely there lavenders and sea greens.
Two gorgeous and wild borosilicate beads in plum, indigo, blue, gray, yellow-green and more by glass artists Valentin and Patricia Hernandez of Atlantis Glass & Bead.
Blue Angel, a dream with Aurae-edged wings by Megan Ellis. This was made with glass from her private stash of glass that is hand-carried by a friend from the factory in Italy.
Fairy Dust-- silvers, purples and reactive blue wisps by Jennifer Cameron of Glass Addictions.
A deep purple enameled filigree bead by Anne of Gardanne Beads.
Icy chunky of rough quartz crystal.
A bead of brightest fuchsia with the opalescent specks floating across the surface from Darcy York of Silver Gypsy.
The crowning touch is a tiny handmade silver rocket ship by ilikeyouasafriend. The base hides a faceted red (natural and genuine) ruby.
This is, of course, a one of a kind collection, created as an entry into the NASA & Etsy Space Craft Contest: To the Moon and Beyond.
It will be sent Priority Mail.
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