Permanent finish galvanized beads
I’m hopeful they live up to the “permanent” part of their name! I bought a little of many colors of these galvanized beads from Toho. I made a sample for a ring, both to see how the matte and shiny finishes interplay, and to test the durability — I’m going to be sporting a pink…
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The mineral specimens were my favorite part of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: The Hope Diamond and other outstanding examples of gems, set into jewelry and displayed as cut gems are also on display. This is the Wittelsbach-Graff diamond, perhaps from the same mine as the Hope: And my final picture from this museum…
Vintage Japanese cab pendant
With permanent galvanized Tohos! These are both of the pinks – I like the look of the matte, especially. And I did manage to photograph some of the flash in the cab; they’re interesting pieces of glass.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is in a beautiful building (as seem to be all of the museums in Washington, D.C.), and has a captivating array of art. There’s Georgia O’Keefe: The gentleman from D.C. who made an aluminum foil altar in his garage (Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly,…
I changed my mind
I don’t like how it looks to have all the bead tweets on my blog every week. It’s too large of a percentage of my blog space. NOW, if I could have them feed into a separate page, linked in the header links? That would be acceptable; available if you want to read it, and…