She has turned them into 'tea-lights' for an upcoming market. I found this fairly grubby looking, taped up bag of beads and since it was only 50 cents I threw caution to the wind and made the purchase!
As it turns out, it was full of these ...
Monday, November 8, 2010
Treasure
I knocked off two assignments for Uni this week (yay!), so op-shopping was a bit thin on the ground. My daughter was visiting and found some pretty teacups ...
She has turned them into 'tea-lights' for an upcoming market. I found this fairly grubby looking, taped up bag of beads and since it was only 50 cents I threw caution to the wind and made the purchase!
As it turns out, it was full of these ...
They are seed beads called Job's Tears. They come from an native Asian grass and are in fact the mature grains of the grass - the lovely pearly exterior houses the grains. They range in colour from light brown right through to charcoal black but these lovely grey coloured ones are my favourite. Apparently, Mother Theresa's favourite rosary was made of Job's Tears and she was buried with it. So, it turned out to be a lucky find. If you had a chance to go treasure hunting this week, I hope the Thrift Goddess was smiling upon you!
She has turned them into 'tea-lights' for an upcoming market. I found this fairly grubby looking, taped up bag of beads and since it was only 50 cents I threw caution to the wind and made the purchase!
As it turns out, it was full of these ...
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You certainly did pick up a bargain. The seed beads are beautiful,I love the colours and not so perfect shapes.
I couldn't go past a bag of 50c beads. Turns out you got some beauties. The teacups are pretty and functional. Congrats on the Uni Assignments!
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