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Foster City Holiday Special – Sales taxes are on us! All bracelets are 7.5 inches in length. Bracelet 1 is made with six (6) sky-blue tensha-beads (10 mm in diameter), three (3) 8 mm Swarovski bicone crystals & two (2) 4 mm sky-blue Swarovski crystals. Including shipping, the price is $50. Bracelet 2 is made with three (3) clear tensha-beads (10 mm in diameter), three (3) 17 mm pink cats-eye glass beads, and six (6) 6 mm round pink glass beads. Including shipping, the price is $42. Bracelet 3 is made with four (4) red, tombo-dama glass beads (10 mm in diameter) with a 4 mm clear Swarovski crystal on both sides & four (4) cubic clear crystals. Tombo-dama beads are Japanese handmade glass beads decorated with colored glass patterns. Tombo means ‘dragonfly’ and Dama means ‘ball.’ The name came into being because when molten glass is applied to the core bead, it resembles a dragonfly’s eye. Tombo-Dama beads existed as ornaments during the time of the ancient Egyptian Dynasty and were revered as a charm against evil, a bead of hope & wishes. Including shipping, the price is $48. Bracelet 4 is made with four (4)) Hotaru-dama glass beads with two (2) blue crushed glass beads & four (4) gold metal balls with small crystals. The center Hotaru-dama is 18 mm in diameter and it is luminous (glows in the dark). Two Hotaru-dama beads are 10 mm in diameter, and the remaining one Hotaru-dama is 6 mm in diameter. The crush beads are 10 mm in diameter. The gold metal balls are 6 mm in diameter. Including shipping, the price is $78.