Vintage plastic beads, silver wire, sterling silver earwires.
While digging through the mountains of beads at what my colleague Elise has dubbed the House of Extreme Jewelry Components in NYC, I found a bag of very nifty deep green geometric beads, which promptly went into my box of treasures. A few minutes later, I found another such bag, only these were translucent instead of opaque and smaller. I squeaked very happily in a most undignified manner and put them into my box of treasures too.