New Stuff

Another 'temptation' ring trio - light and dark pink tourmaline, light pink tourmaline, green tourmaline, and recycled sterling silver, size 8 (but fits more like a 7-7.5)
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Labradorite and recycled sterling silver ring, size 8
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Larimar and recycled sterling silver ring, size 6
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Faceted blue-green tourmaline and recycled sterling silver ring
{ custom order; sold }

Peruvian blue opal and recycled sterling silver ring, size 7.5
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Pink tourmaline and recycled sterling silver ring, size7

{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

I left the back open on this one.

Bi-color tourmaline and recycled sterling silver ring, size 6.5
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Faceted blue tourmaline and recycled sterling silver engagement ring
{ custom order; sold }

Super-sparkly blue tourmaline slice and sterling silver pendant
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

...another open-backed design.

Labradorite and recycled sterling silver ring
{ custom order; sold }

More New Stuff

A few more rings polished and photographed today...

What should I name this one? I am particularly fond of this color combination... violet chalcedony, blue tourmaline, and kyanite with recycled sterling silver, size 7 (although the stacking rings tend to fit a half to a full size smaller), to be listed for sale soon in my shop.

Blue pietersite with recycled sterling silver (I'm afraid my photographs don't do this stone justice), size 6.5, to be listed for sale soon in my shop.

Temptation ring trio - light and dark pink tourmaline, green tourmaline, recycled sterling silver
{ custom order; sold }

New Stuff

I've been busy the past couple of days making lots of pretty things. I have a bunch more rings to polish and photograph later today, but here's what I've finished so far -

Moissanite & recycled sterling silver 'pebble' ring
This would be cute worn all on its own, or stacked with a few other rings.

I made this one for myself, but I have one more strand of these beads left if anyone feels the need to have me make one for them. :-)

A close-up shot of the same necklace - these tourmaline beads are so incredibly glossy and colorful - I am so in love with them.

Pink tourmaline flower pendant on multicolored tourmaline necklace

Aren't those beads just so pretty?

And the grand finale in this little tourmaline parade -

I really splurged on this enormous pink tourmaline cabochon at last weekend's gem show.

I left the back open to showcase how clear and color-saturated this stone is.

It's HUGE! Too big for my little paws, so it will be for sale in my shop soon.

Chicken Pic of the Day

Rosa

Cally update

Thanks to everyone who wrote to wish Cally well with her recovery! You are all too sweet. She is at the vet now getting stitched up; we'll be headed out to pick her up in an hour or two. The vet said it was good that we brought her in because it would have gotten maggots, especially during this time of year. Yuck! He gave me the option of treating it with antibiotic ointment or having him sew it up, and I decided the stitches sounded like more of a sure solution so we went with that. I would have felt bad smearing ointment into her open sore several times a day (sounds painful), plus I was worried about her picking at it or one of the other chickens pecking it or something - I think this will hopefully be a more comfortable solution.

Gem Show, Part 3

Last but not least - cabs and faceted stones I bought for use in my own designs. Most of these are available for custom orders so let me know if you see something you need.

Pink tourmaline cabs, 11mm and 12mm

Pink tourmaline square cabs, 10mm

Enormous rutilated quartz cab - 17.5mm x 25mm

I'm not sure what these are - the woman I bought them from called them 'strawberry quartz', but I've always thought that strawberry quartz was a solid pink, manmade simulated quartz type of material...??? I saw some at another booth that looked a lot like this and it was marked as something like 'lepidocr...something'. Anybody familiar with it?

Violet chalcedony cabs - 8mm x 10mm

Blue pietersite cabs:
Top row - two 16mm triangles
Middle row - ovals - 15mm x 20mm, 17mm x 21mm, 15mm x 20mm
Bottom row - 10mm x 17mm oval

Pink tourmaline cabs:
Upper left - 11mm x 19mm
Upper right - 9mm x 13mm
Lower left - 11mm
Lower right - 11mm x 19mm

Carved pink tourmaline roses, 17mm - won't these make the cutest rings?

This was my biggest indulgence - an enormous pink tourmaline cab that is so clear and vibrant... I may be tempted to keep this for myself, we'll see. :-)
15mm x 21mm

Another totally gorgeous pink tourmaline cab, 14mm

Sparkly blue tourmaline slices - clockwise from top left - 9mm, 16mm, 18mm, 14mm, 16mm

Druzy quartz - 10mm x 12mm

Really high quality kyanite - this was a splurge...
Upper left - 10mm x 16mm
Right - 11mm x 13mm
Lower left - 10mm x 14mm

A nice chunky, flashy labradorite cab - 13.5mm

Larimar cabs, 16mm

Big round amethyst cab - 15mm

Jackpot!!! I've been looking for apatite cabs for a while now - finally found some... 8mm x 10mm - 9mm x 11mm

Aquamarine cabs:
Left - 12mm
Upper right - 13mm
Lower right - 13mm

Another score - bi-color tourmaline - clockwise from top:
11mm x 22mm teardrop
12mm x 20mm oval
Matched pair - 10mm x 22mm rectangles
18mm x 24mm oval
Matched pair - 16mm circles (just pink)

Gorgeous, clear aquamarine cab, 11mm

I also bought a few faceted stones...

Aquamarine, 5.5mm

Blue tourmaline, 5mm

Labradorite, 8mm

Tiny little multicolored sapphires, 2mm

Eensy-weensy tsavorite garnets, 2mm

Gem Show, Part 2

The next installment... cabochons I'll be selling in my bead shop. :-)

Big round lapis lazuli cabochons

I hand-picked each of these stones - they all have really pretty golden flecks.

Turquoise cabs

Charoite cabs

Kyanite cabs

Larimar cabs

More kyanite cabs

Peruvian blue opal cabs