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crosso, I later made a best offer on the bigger maw sit sit beads from this seller and hope they are as nice as yours! Yes, the wait for stuff from Thailand can be agonizing! ;-) Lila turned out beautifully and I'm so excited for you! It's very professional of him to send you in-progress photos. Come to think of it he sent me a couple of photos when he banded Spring Green and that was a much more simple job. I appreciated his photos to get a preview before receiving her back in the mail.

JKP, your agate bamboo bangle is lovely! I love its pale color that looks all-natural to me. Agate is often dyed fun bright colors, and red carnelian agate is often heat treated to bring out the red colors.
 
I'm so in love with my bangle. I've taken to wearing it all the time and not really wearing any of my other jade anymore. I've been wearing my (modest, but loved) diamond jewelry with it a lot and love the look together. I feel very elegant and it has changed how I dress a bit. I'll try to get some photos but they honestly never do it justice.
 
OH MY GOODNESS!!! I saw your bangle and my jaw dropped!!!! It's freakin beautiful!!!!!!! I love the flower on the hinge too!!! Churk is the bomb!! I can't wait to get something like that someday from him!!! I have NO hinged bangles!!!! Lila is a beauty!!!!!!!

Thanks so much, msloka!! This is my first hinged and I was so disappointed not to be able to wear it. If you are looking at one, always ask about the hinge and clasp condition, because it is HARD to find somwone to do this work and not cheap, either. I'm very glad to have found that Churk can do it and do it well!
I hope you are feeling better! ☺
 
crosso, I later made a best offer on the bigger maw sit sit beads from this seller and hope they are as nice as yours! Yes, the wait for stuff from Thailand can be agonizing! ;-) Lila turned out beautifully and I'm so excited for you! It's very professional of him to send you in-progress photos. Come to think of it he sent me a couple of photos when he banded Spring Green and that was a much more simple job. I appreciated his photos to get a preview before receiving her back in the mail.

JKP, your agate bamboo bangle is lovely! I love its pale color that looks all-natural to me. Agate is often dyed fun bright colors, and red carnelian agate is often heat treated to bring out the red colors.

Oh, I'm glad, J4Me, I think you will like them! I'm thinking now of using gold chain to make a connected bib type necklace with mine. Where each bead would have a pin with eyes on either end, connected to two short chains to link it to two beads above it and so on. It would be a long project, but I want to do something different.

Thanks re Lila! Churk is VERY professional and sends pics at each stage to get input/approval before proceeding. He is wonderful to work with!
 
Also, Churk sent pics of Lila with her new hinge/clasp. Hopefully she will be on the way back to me tomorrow! He added gold to make the hinge clasp thicker, as well as adding pins to make it more secure. I think I'm going to be very happy with the end result.

Lila looks beautiful, Crosso! I know you're excited to get her back. And I love the Maw Sit Sit beads! They're amazing!
 
I'm so in love with my bangle. I've taken to wearing it all the time and not really wearing any of my other jade anymore. I've been wearing my (modest, but loved) diamond jewelry with it a lot and love the look together. I feel very elegant and it has changed how I dress a bit. I'll try to get some photos but they honestly never do it justice.

Would love to see your bangle Ming Rui:)
 
Thank you @jade4me and @crosso. :)

@jade4me: black-gray is actually quite attractive! There's such a mysterious air to it. The ones I've seen are mostly in big sizes though, so I will have to hunt for one that might call to me :)
 
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