What is the "Best Deal"...?
Would you like to see Pictures Of Lily - or those of Roxanne?
Both were my "best deals".
Or are beads the nucleus of your question? It's not really clear!
PS
Asking such a question, it had been a good start, had you shown "your best" first.
Might have been great, tht deal, dear Danny, but your "BEST DEAL" was, still is and always will be something else!
It is that "Suzi-girl" by your side! Am I correct...?
Good idea!
You have the first shot - I shoot back with my two best deals!
One is very best - the other is very-very best!
We're in the middle of our SECOND major move in less than three years. All the beads are packed up or buried in boxes.
When the beads resurface, I'll post my "best deals".
In the meantime, a picture of my saddest packing day so far.
I am also asking: "Which of your beads have been most beneficial -for various reasons…?"
I try very hard not to respond to my intentionally vague, open questions -because I want to see where a thread may lead without my personal influence.
Since you asked for OUR best deals/most beneficial beads your personal influence could only be small, actually non-existant.
But we are not here to split hair (hares?). It is just "that thing" with language I have (being far from perfect myself - in English!).
I can only answer with a rather unspectacular triptych or trinity of "most beneficial" examples. Still - one led to the next - each of them with years in-between - none of them thinkable without the other. A natural evolution of taste and interest, most of you might share, though probably with different beads.
Mass-made marbles came first! Not only for me - a traditional game for German boys at the time.
20 years later another classic. Marrakech, the Souk, thousands and thousands of flowers!
My first two milestones of glass, before my one true LOVE came around. Bamako, Mali, 1991/2 - the famous Rose Market, a wonderful old building in pink Sudanese architecture (burnt down a few years later). There it was, shining like an emerald, illuminated by one of the few thick beams of sunlight that fell through the roof onto the first of its kind, I held between my fingertips. An unforgettable green fire*.
* my photo is unable to reflect this experience!
My very first Muraqat. 12 mm. Green "bottle-glass".
