In any bead store I always ooh and aah over certain colors and my daughter smiles and says, "colors of water, Mom."

This necklace is named for those colors, and for the five gray, black, and white Peruvian ceramic dolphins frolicking around it.

Aside from being fun to wear, it's a very pretty piece, with soft blue-green and glowing transparent glass beads

forming two strands at the front and running together to a barrel clasp at the back. The dolphins swim in hoops of surgical steel, which also hang from the French earwires.

A delight for dolphin lovers!

This piece should be fine under normal wearing conditions. I would, however, keep it outside car shoulder belts, away from animals and small children, and out of bathtubs and swimming pools.