Pobody's Nerfect

I think this may be my favorite of all the pieces I've created so far, mostly because it took compiling two groups of orphan beads by Alexandra Spinglaschell (www.alexandra95026.com) to do it in order to get the color combination just right. I had the two raku and copper green swirlies from the first lot I purchased from Alex, received the third raku and copper green swirly in the second lot I purchased from her and received the three snakeskin-ish raku beads in a third lot. All I can say is that good things DO come to those who wait!

I am madly passionate about fancy jasper right now because it comes in every color and it goes with everything and in this case it just staged these beads perfectly - as did the wax resin core 20K waffle-texture Afghani beads and the solid 18K stardust beads with diamond-cut eternal ring pattern. All the colors just reflect what I see when I look out my window every day at at this time of year, out here in the country around sunset, when the sky get