Vintage Beads Get New Life – Sharon Saturday

New Life Jewelry Art (the ROSJ Artfire store) features vintage beads and components from Betty and Jennie’s personal stashes. Some beads are over 60 years old as Jennie (my late Granny) saved them for a rainy day.

Mom (Betty) and I have carefully sorted through these beautiful beads with a history. We discovered some fabulous and rare faux pearls which were known as “sugar’ pearls. These glass pearls have a sugary-looking finish which really catches the light.

On this “Sharon” Saturday, I thought it would be nice to feature some of our New Life Jewelry Art and Rose of Sharon Jewelry designs incorporating vintage beads.

The designs featured here from our New Life Jewelry Art store are on sale now!

Blue Satin features vintage Lucite beads from Betty’s stash. These are the real deal and have wonderful luster.

Empress is a wonderful 2-piece necklace and earring set made from vintage graduated faux pearls. These glass pearls have outstanding luster and are in perfect condition. The white is a perfect shade (not too yellow and not too blue) to go with a wedding gown.

These beads were from Granny’s collection and we believe these are over 50 years old (sounds great for beads but not for me at 55).

This is a classic heirloom design worthy of passing on to a beloved daughter, granddaughter or niece.

This next bracelet reminds me of those hard candies we used to get at the movies so I named it Hard Candy. The vintage beads in this design are the turquoise with black accented ones. To complete this double-stranded bracelet, Mom added some licorice black Czech glass beads. This adorable one-of-a-kind bracelet is on sale at ArtFire now.

The Rose of Sharon Jewelry store has a magnificent example of the vintage “sugar pearls.’” These white faux pearls have a high-end look without the high-end price.