Prisms - cheap looking or just wonderful?

GRUMPY wrote:This is how I like the use of prisms, you found what I
did, the prisms can create that classic and yes a fabulous
feminine delicate look. With the pearls also, you used your pearls
as spacers but to me the look now lost Contrast.. i.e. the silver
creates a more 3d/contrast in the picture.

I have made designs up like this and love them .. Yours is lovely.
Ironically enough you can recreate this look with plastic beads for
as little as $5 and when you wear it this is what some people would
presume which is not what a woman wants to achieve when she designs a bracelet.

I'm
not criticising your bracelet as I genuinely like it but it's a
comment I got from hubbie many years ago, a woman wears her jewelry
for her man, so he can show the world what he can afford to buy for her
and shine with it. It's an old attitude, and though we are working
girls; spending often, our own money could we have done this
without that rock in our life? Some jewelry I purchased from my own
income, I like it, I buy it, it's my money! However, if I had been
not working or as I am now; retired the food on the table, the
heating etc etc currently is paid by my husband's pension, my
pennies are mine to do with what I want. As little as there is
lately. So the $5 comment struck me, as in a way it seems wrong to
have something as jewelry that could look like a $5 piece when we
all know you paid ??????? big bucks.. Food for thought?

I
may have started a new discussion here ooops didnot mean to hijack
your thread but I do love your bracelet combination and that is the
most important.. you got the talking stick back lol

Bluesybeads wrote:

GRUMPY wrote:Ironically
enough you can recreate this look with plastic beads for as little as
$5 and when you wear it this is what some people would presume which is not what a woman wants to achieve when she designs a bracelet.

Grumpy,
you do have a point there, and maybe it should have a thread of its
own. I must admit that I have said the exact same thing as I think the
prisms look cheap and made of plastic. I have seen so many cheap plastic
prisms that I have had difficulty liking the TB prisms. That said, I
have liked the rainbow of colours some people have made of the prisms,
and when shopping TB I have actually acquired 5 of these
"plastic-looking" prisms just because they appealed to me and had
stunning depth and colouring. Well what to do about this? The TB prisms are much nicer than the plastic ones

Wildthing wrote:And in all fairness I think if you are not into troll I think one might think the same about all other trollbeads as being cheap for no one in there right mind would ever think we would spend so much on glass??

That is another really good point, there is a lovely lady who I walk my dog with on the park, she once spotted my bracelet and said 'Oh that's pretty, I have seen those in Next' (inexpensive high street shop).

The next time I saw her, she was sporting one, very pleased with herself, she said, 'Look I got one, just like yours' and really couldn't see the difference.

She has since told me in shocked tones about Pandora and expressed her astonishment that anyone would pay around £500 for a bracelet made of glass and silver and arn't we sensible to buy cheap ones.

that is so funny, I wouldn't tell her either as long as she's happy don't spoil it.
It's so nice one can be so happy even when it's not expensive
That's the weird thing with me!! if you would see me on the street you would probably NEVER guess I would love this jewelry so much. I hardly ever wear make-up don't care to much for clothes only on occasionally if my hubby and I go out
I don't LOVE shoes oddly enough But I just LOVE trollies

I don't have the heart to put her right about mine, so I just nod and smile

I'm afraid the feminist in me takes massive umbrage to to idea that any jewelry I wear is a reflection of my other half's wealth or desire to spend on me, it makes my brain bleed a little, sorry.

Wildthing wrote:A

She has since told me in shocked tones about Pandora and expressed her astonishment that anyone would pay around £500 for a bracelet made of glass and silver and arn't we sensible to buy cheap ones.

I don't have the heart to put her right about mine, so I just nod and smile

Wildthing wrote:
I'm afraid the feminist in me takes massive umbrage to to idea that any jewelry I wear is a reflection of my other half's wealth or desire to spend on me, it makes my brain bleed a little, sorry.

lindakm wrote:I just read this tread, and I must admit, I have never made the connection between prisms and plastic beads. I love mine, and have at least one on almost every bracelet. I love the sparkle and the depth of colour. This is the bracelet I am wearing today, and it is almost all prisms. I hope you like it!

lecohen wrote:I don't own any prisms yet as have not been able to get the ones I want so prioritised other beads but I always thought prisms were more fragile and susceptible to chips

beadiack wrote:

lecohen wrote:I don't own any prisms yet as have not been able to get the ones I want so prioritised other beads but I always thought prisms were more fragile and susceptible to chips

I certainly haven't noticed that. I wear my TBs all the time doing all the things I do. I marvel all the time that the glass holds up to clinking together and against my stone counters and whatever punishment I subject my hands and them to. The prisms among them are no different. They're sparkly but they're survivors!