There are so many differences between jewelry made of precious materials and jewelry made of nonprecious materials. One of the advantages of costume jewelry is the availability of sizes shapes and colors that have never existed in nature ! These cobalt blue melon beads and the elongated emerald green ones for instance. I only have a few of them sitting in a drawer for years and years. Decided they should become some thing to be worn. The slightly off-white glass pearls are really good ones from the old days. #rhinestonerondelles #glasspearls #melonbeads #beadnecklace #costumejewelry #ooakjewelry #collectiblejewelry #sorrelloriginals