Sunday, February 14, 2010
Here's the first piece, which will be listed in my shop this evening. It's a piece of Candelaria Hills Variscite surrounded by leaves and fronds - and even a flower!
I probably made that little silver flower last fall, when I was playing with my disc cutter. It ended up in a jar where I put odds and ends. I suddenly remembered it just as I was deciding where to place the leaves around the setting and thought it with fit right in. (If you look at the variscite and use your imagination, I can see a couple of flowers in the patterns of the stone.)
And as a final touch, I added a little contrariwise dragonfly on the underside.
UPDATE: If you want to see more photos, here's the listing.
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Nicole/Beadwright
looking .
I'm not a gem expert but I've heard that variscite is often mined in the same area as turquoise but its not the same chemically. Also it's a greener color and it quite a bit rarer than turquoise.
But what the heck. All I'm certain of is that it's beautiful and I'm keeping my eye out for more of it!
Took me long enough!