re: #155 Dragon_Lady

Oh, I’m a big one for the zoning in stones. I’ll just bet the baby blue piece you’re referring to is from the Sleeping Beauty mine, I have some and cheep it is not! I paid $80.00 (don’t tell RWC!) for a strand of 6mm x 3mm tube Sleeping Beauty Beads and that was wholesale! With my employee discount too! I used to work for A & P Trading in DT L.A. and I have more gemstone beads and strands of fresh water pearls than I care to admit to. Love em’! I do link to link wire wrap jewelry when the mood strikes me.

No, I don’t think the baby blue is Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty rarely has much matrix in it (as far as I know)… from what I gather, that’s why it sells so high, for those folks who are more into the matrix free stuff… in this picture below, the fanciful “moon” pendant I made, see the eyes, that’s Sleeping Beauty. I made the eyes out of some Sleeping Beauty beads… the mouth is not Sleeping Beauty, even though it’s a similar blue… for a matter of fact, the mouth is from the same piece as the large oval we are talking about… I had a lot of that baby blue stuff with the pale tan quartz in it.

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