Macro of water droplets on a leaf.

Life is too short to wear boring jewelry.

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Looking close... on Friday! - Jewellery (selective colour)

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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But it's OK, she's happy enough. :)

This is a very different type of lampwork glass bead. You can probably see a little dip at the top where the bead would be threaded onto a necklace. The white shell is actually ceramic, but the tiny starfish are real. At the back is a lampwork glass cabochon I was given as a gift with one of my purchases. At a distance I thought the green looked a bit like seaweed.

For this week's Looking Close... on Friday group theme, Fish. The bead is a fraction over 1" long.

This large cab is most of what is left from one half of a plume agate collected on the Walker Ranch in 1994.

I'm not done with this one yet.

Created with Ultra Fractal

Sur la place de l'église est une croix en lave du 16e siècle reposant sur un piédestal de forme cubique. La tête de cette croix a des bras à section carrée ornés de petites feuilles et terminés par des choux. Ces bras sont reliés par un nimbe ajouré orné de petites saillies figurant des cabochons. D'un côté est figuré le Christ (disparu) , de l'autre la Vierge. Une bague circulaire, ornée de quatre petites feuilles sur lesquelles s'amortissent les arêtes de la partie supérieure, sert de transition entre la tête et le fût cylindrique. La base est semblable à toutes les bases des 15e et 16e siècles.

22x20mm

Fun with a tutorial by Melanie West, available at corvusFlies.etsy.com.

For the Gemstones Theme I opened a box of cabochons my wife keeps for her jewelry making hobby. HSoS!

I had a blast yesterday!

20x15 Unk agate, Agua Nueva, Maybe?

Plume Agate, Oregon/Idaho.

You can see under the ledge, This rock is amazing under the jewelers loop.

One of the coolest gemmies around.

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another Luna, full of moons

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Petrified coral cabochon 30 x 22

Turritell Agate

Pinolite Cabochon crafted by Mrs Dragonspeed at the Port Moody Rock and Gem Club

Mexican Crazy lace Cabochon, 30x20 mm

size 28 mm.

A present for the neighborhood girls, cabochon placed in wood,the background is textured .

Thanks for the visit

She had a idea for a new wrap the other day, I hope this is what you were talking about honey.

My fabulous daughter gave me 500 Labradorite cabochons for Mother's Day! It's my favorite stone, lots of projects ahead! They are all sizes and shapes. Thanks, Megan!

Life is too short to wear boring jewelry.

Looking close... on Friday! - JEWELRY ON PAPER BACKGROUND

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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Crazy lace, 18 x 18

Mahogany Obsidian

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Cabochon begging for his toy.

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I retained most of the pattern in the freeform cabochon of crazylace, which I finished around midnite!

Flowerstone Cabochon crafted by me at the Port Moody Rock and Gem Club

polymer clay

For Saturday Self Challenge -- Jewellery

A challenge this week that was less of a challenge , I have recently been doing a certain amount of jewellery photography for the pieces that my daughter has made . She has started to make various jewellery pieces ( our house is full of crafts of one sort or another ) and all the pieces above are crafted by her . Considering that she has Cerebral Palsy and only full use of one hand amongst other issues, as parents, my wife and I are very proud of what she produces .

The four larger gemstones are various forms of Agate.

The three smaller gems are Labradorite which is noted for the flashes of various colours as light is refracted passing through the gemstone .

I quote from wikipedia -

Labradorite can display an iridescent optical effect (or schiller) known as labradorescence. The term labradoresence was coined by Ove Balthasar Bøggild, who defined it (labradorization) as follows:

Labradorization is the peculiar reflection of the light from submicroscopical planes orientated in one direction (rarely in two directions); these planes have never such a position that they can be expressed by simple indices, and they are not directly visible under the microscope.

My daughter has virtually self taught herself just watching a shopping channel that only does jewellery components and by viewing tutorial dvds followed by adapting to a way that she can manage . She hopes to sell some of her pieces on " esty.com " with my wife who is the soft toy and teddy bear maker .

As far as the photography is concerned ( my contribution ) , light is the all important factor to getting a decent record of any of the pieces . A tripod is pretty essential as well - the shots have to be bright , clear and well detailed . And thanks to SSC I think the way is now clear for me to invest in a decent true macro lens . Result !

A studio would be good too , but for the foreseeable future - the top of the cooker will have to continue to be the brightest place in the house .

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Have a quick peep if you wish .

Very little color in this gray and white cabochon I finished tonight.

This is a pair of custom polymer clay cabochons in a style I call "Neptune's Garden". ^^ The blue/green round cab is 1-5/8" in diameter and the marquis shape is 1-7/8" long.