Saturday, November 03, 2007

pirate's booty

when she was little my daughter thought that the garage sale regulars were pirates.
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this week was a great week for finding bits of booty for reworking into my jewelry.
here's most of it piled on my kitchen table.
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a trade bead and a porcelain pendant.
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a wad of fresh water rice pearls, 100's of them.
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some lovely mottled glazed clay beads mixed with sterling silver beads just waiting to be unstrung.
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and lastly gold - what a week for gold.
don't worry - the little victorian crescent moon pin with pearls will not be taken apart.

there is also a nice little pile of religious medals that i found. they will used as dangles on this christmas' supply of mexican voodoo necklaces.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The stars and crescent pin is an old Delta Delta Delta sorority pi, and would be higly appreciated by the national hedquarters. Officially, the pins are property of the sorority and are supposed to be returned on the death of the member. I suppose it's not followed much, but as a rule follower I had to point it out :).