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Being a Pisces, I love the color combination of sea-green and violet. The day we went to the River Park (still called the Pueblo by many people), I hung out with Walt and Nancy Seifried for a while, but also wandered around. I noticed a booth advertising strands of beads for $10 each, and also their table with a PILE of greenish-blue calcite beads of various shapes and sizes. The color is something like that of an aquamarine. It turned out these beads were not included in the ten-buck sale, but they were not too pricey. When I went inside, I found this was the Sugilite Company, and that they specialized in this gorgeous mineral that many people have come to love over the past couple of decades. I own a few sugilite beads, but not many. I was attracted to a few necklaces they offered for sale, that consisted of pale-colored material. This is perhaps not "the best" sugilite, but the colors are, at eye level, very easy to appreciate for being violet. (A lot of "good" sugilite is rather dark in tone, although it's also very intensely violet.) So I bought one of these. Details next. JDA. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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