Channeling my inner dragon....

Robert kidnapped me for a few hours today to have lunch and go to the gem show. I LOVE natural stone gems and shiny pretty things...but I don't wear jewelry for religious reasons. I don't mind not wearing jewelry at all but I found myself getting grumpier and grumpier about all the pretty things and none of them were mine! What could I do with them? Well really I just wanted to crawl into a pile and roll around. So many pretty precious things I just wanted my little hoard. We stopped at one merchant who had mixed strings for $2 and $3. Natural and somewhat unnatural but all very pretty. He had the literal piles that I wanted to roll around in. I picked out a few.



Now what do I do with them? I might be able to use some of them on hair barrettes. Was stone ever used to embellish early period clothing? Maybe some of the square pieces? My inner dragon had to be placated but I could use some creative help figuring out how to make something with all this. The small red beads and the red velvet crystal will be for hair barrettes. The rest are probably to big for that. Any ideas?

Oh... I still sound like a dog with kennel cough and I still get winded and wear out quickly but my throat is hurting soooo much less that I feel a lot better.