Pendant this time.

( Debating using this as my jewelry icon instead of the old one. )

The piece of sea glass in the middle is about 10 millimeters by 15 millimeters- I use a caliper for measuring a lot of my jewelry stuff, it's just easier. As far as I can tell it used to be the topmost part of a beer bottle neck, but to get to the stage of frosting/hydration/pitting/whatever you see in the texture in the picture, it had to have been in the ocean for at least seven or eight years, possibly ten or more. I've also heard really good frosting takes twenty years in the water, but no idea how they arrived at that.

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... huh, I was going to post about looking for color matches for six-color pride flag stripes among the three millimeter crystal beads for sale at artbeads.com, because you can order them in very small amounts there, but I may be able to buy 3mm beads in groups of as few as 12 through Fire Mountain Gems. Which is not bad, and the prices aren't bad either.

I need to check something.

Rounds:

Red: Fire Mountain has 3mm rounds in Siam and Siam shimmer
Orange: ... hrm. Well, they call it tangerine shimmer. The diagram is shaped like a bicone but the description says it's a round and the photo's not too far off
Yellow: Crystal metallic sunshine, 12 to a pack; topaz, 24 to a pack, but about the same price as the crystal metallic sunshine ones
Green: Emerald and emerald shimmer, 12 to a pack
Blue: Aquamarine, light turquoise, light turquoise shimmer, and turquoise glacier blue- I'm not familiar with the glacier effect from Swarovski, so I don't know how that really differs from other variants. They also have majestic blue, which is basically royal blue, no shimmer options there. All these in 12-packs.
Purple: .... well, they got twelve-packs of Swarovski amethyst. It's kinda pale.

Bicones:
That's more like it. Purple is available in a darker shade of amethyst, but also in a deeper color named purple velvet. A 48-pack costs a buck forty more than a twelve-pack of amethyst rounds.
Blues: ahahaha there's like thirty-nine different Swarovski bicone blue options and at least fifteen more if Preciosa (made in the Czech Republic) is an acceptable brand.
Greens: Almost as many options as blues in 3mm bicones. Again, the 48-packs cost around $1.40 to $1.50 more than a twelve-pack of rounds.
Yellows: yep, nine different possible yellow options and secven of them look properly yellow rather than metallic or some weird topaz variant.
Oranges: tangerine, tangerine shimmer, hyacinth, hyacinth shimmer, you name it, they got orange options.
Reds: ... yeah, we're good here.

So I can probably secure bicones at reasonable prices for rainbow color ear climbers and still have plenty of beads left over for other things. Unless I really just want to try one or two beads of individual colors it doesn't make that much sense to buy a handful of beads at a time- the prices on individual beads turn out to be way higher than the price per bead of a 48-pack or 12-pack.

Hrm.