Archive for August, 2011

Nova Scotia Gem & Mineral Show

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For the first time in 3 years, I got my little behind to the NS Gem & Mineral Show. I went completely bonkers and oh boy am I glad I did! Check out the colour on that aquamarine! The deep blue apatite! the brilliant yellow citrine, the peridot… oh man I’m excited.

I have been planning my Focus series for like a billion years now, and now I have the full complement of what I need. Here are some closeups!

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The most amazing blue AAA kyanite, citrine, and amethyst/citrine points.

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AMETHYST!

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Carnelian. Loving these facets.

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Top row is some rainbow moonstone, nearly invisibly. The rectangles are the kyanite I had before – rough, inconsistent colour, full of matrix. The triple-a stuff is just so much better. The bottom three rows are iolite, iolite, and more kyanite.

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One of the big regrets I had about the last show was not going back for more agate slices. This time, I bought nearly everything they had!

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Including these brilliant tumbled fragments.

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I am completely in love.

Crazy New Vintage Steampunk Flower Birchbark Clocky Things

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Hoo boy, I love this batch. I had several new sets of components I had wanted to try – enameled flowers I got from an artist on etsy, lacquered birchbark I’d harvested from a friend’s woodpile, skeleton keys my dad salvaged from his basement, and stamped bronze and copper filigree that I’d coloured and varnished myself. I meant to do four different styles, but somehow they all got mashed up into my steampunk line and turned into something crazy and awesome.

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