A Girl and her DeWalt Drill

No crafts for me this past weekend.  I spent over eight hours installing new Elfa shelving from The Container Store.  If only it would stay this way....

The 'before' photo from the closet incident three weeks ago....

Faux Amazonite from Polymer Clay

Amazonite is a green variety of micro-line feldspar, and it's a nice semi-precious stone for jewelry.  I recently saw a necklace I wanted to copy, but when I found some Peruvian amazonite beads, they were a little out of my price range.  So I came up with faux amazonite using polymer clay.  Here is a picture of my first batch of beads.
You can see that my beads are a little darker, and a little more turquoise in color.  They were lighter before I baked them, but I like the deeper color.  I also experimented with some rust colored inclusions, which I like.

Below are some photos of real Amazonite