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[meganbmoore]

 rightstuf.com's current sale is 33% of CMX comics, 40% off if you're in their club thingie.  I highly approve of this, as I've been waiting for that and a Go!Comi sale (which I don't think they'll ever have...another few weeks and i'll have to concede defeat and pay a bit more for a few things at Amazon...)

Has anyone read The Empty Empire, From Eroica With Love (I'm positive someone recced it to me...smillaraaq?) Key to the Kingdom, or Musashi Number Nine?

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm less thrown by less-great art than some are. I think it's years of conditioning from comic books when you suddenly have good art replaced with a bad guest artist.

BTW, (on acompletely unrelated note) I haven't had a chance to go through the website for the bracelet(I haven't been on the internet computer full time at work in a while, and it's one of many websites that loads slowly on this computer) but the silver color, normal length chain and the purple and blue stones are best.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I can mail you some hardcopy catalogs if you like, to get a better idea of what sort of stuff is available...

(And if medium-toned purples are good, shopping online with a different vendor for another one of my custom pieces, I actually turned up someone who's got really good prices on faceted amethyst briolettes...they're a little irregular in shape and size, but I rather like that effect to make it clear that these are hand-cut stones, and to give a little more variety to a piece that's going to have all the dangles be of much the same type...)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I'll have time at work on Saturday. Irregular shapes sound interesting, though.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

D'oh, and it looks like I forgot to put them on watch...but these look pretty much like the ones I saw on auction earlier:



And here's a different interesting-looking string I found when trying to find the first one:

http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/fullView.asp?id=244019341&fc=0&img=http://fareastlines.com/ebay/images/gemstones/am00022l1.jpg (http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/fullView.asp?id=244019341&fc=0&img=http://fareastlines.com/ebay/images/gemstones/am00022l1.jpg)

The second batch is a bit more regular in shape but more irregular in color -- they're darker purple and interestingly cloudy and variegated. The first string is lighter and a bit closer to gem grade in clarity, but more irregular in shape and size; either set would make for a very interesting charm bracelet, IMO.

(You can find stuff that's pretty much gem quality in terms of color and clarity and consistency of cut, but those beads run a lot more expensive, natch. These, with the inclusions or irregularity of cut, are actually pretty much price-comparable to some of the fanciest man-made glass or lead crystal beads.) (http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/42000103/Images/10/SPAM-23.jpg)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I really like the second set, actually.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

*nods* I quite like them both; my only potential concern with the second set is they're a little bigger and chunkier than the lighter teardrops, so they *might* need a slightly heavier (and thus more expensive) bracelet base for balance. (Or maybe not -- that's one of those nebulous things where I can look at measurements up and down, but I really need the actual pieces in my hands to make a proper judgement call on the final design.)