Monday, December 7, 2015

Wishing for beads...

As a continuation of yesterday's post, I found some photos that illustrate some of the kinds of finishes that I'd like to see in the colors that I posted. I love the somewhat translucent "milky" look of some of these beads. They're obviously available somewhere because someone made these pieces of jewelry with them.



 
I just bought the beads below on Small Business Saturday. They're just plain opaque glass but I love the clear, clean color and they're a very pretty blue that I'd never seen anywhere before. Obviously I had to buy them. They're 3mm fire polished beads and unfortunately that was the only size they had in that color.


 

9 comments:

  1. The color on the necklace you posted yesterday look very much like the opal series of superduos so maybe the other types of beads will be available sometime soon. Ann

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    1. I was looking around on the Starman site at the SuperDuos the other day and they've got a series called "Milky" and it comes in various shades of light aqua/turquoise but they don't have anything in a green similar to the necklace above. The only green is lime green. I've seen the Milky Aquamarine and Milky Peridot in shops online but so far I haven't seen the Milky Seafoam anywhere. They're pretty colors but a little lighter than I'd like. I don't like having to worry about black thread showing. I don't know who makes the "Opal" series, which looks very similar to the "Milky" series. I didn't see anything "Opal" on the Starman site so maybe they're from BeadSmith or Matubo.

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  2. Check out BEADSDIRECTUS.COM they have lots of colors to chose from.Ann

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  3. HauteHobby etsy milky opal turquoise 4mm!!! and lots of colors we never see here Italy Ann

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  4. I agree - these are wonderful. I would buy them all.

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  5. I really like these colors too! I would also buy them. :-)

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  6. shipwreckbeads.com has a nice "opal seafoam" and their "opal green luster" and "opaque turquoise green luster" is pretty as well.

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