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I made a Tarte Tatin for dessert. It’s so pretty.
I know it's a busy time but if you get an opportunity to post a picture of the boulder opal jewelry I'd really enjoy seeing it. I looked up Yossi Harari jewelry at NM and at this time it's styles that are contemporary, not artisanal. Post it here or PM me.
In the 80's/90's there were a fair number of shops carrying hand-crafted jewelry made of unusual material and stones. The local bead store was shuttered b/c of Covid restrictions and that's sad. It was a great store. All these small businesses closing lately, it's terrible, the only thing I can hope is that the retail shake-out will provide opportunities for new entrepreneurs
Eagle,
Here are the pics. The earrings are by Nina Runsdorf and the ring is by Yossi Harari.
Beautiful pieces etoupebirkin. Love how the blue shines through.
Wow, I love the earrings, they're such an unusual combo of blue and brown, with the opal catching the light. I like combos of blue and brown in general and they're spectacular. The brown is a good caramel shade to pair with the blue.
Did you ever see hawk's eye jewelry? There was some at NM a couple of years ago, I got excited at seeing it, I can't remember tho who made it. I kept saying to the person with me, "That's hawk's eye" but she was a monochromatic b & w person. Possibly ! Stephen Dweck. I saw a hawk's eye ring at a craft show which haunts me to this day that I didn't get it but I just did not appreciate how unusual it is. It's quartz but browny tiger eye is much more common in jewelry. Pietersite combines both the blue and brown. It used to be fairly available as beads a couple of decades ago but then became harder to find. Since my beloved bead store closed, I have to search the web for interesting stuff.
Featured snippet from the web
Pietersite is a trade name for a dark blue-grey breccia aggregate made up mainly of hawk's eye and tigereye. It is a variety of chalcedony (itself a variety of quartz) with embedded fibers of amphibole minerals in varying degrees of alteration. The fibers cause a blue chatoyancy like that seen in tigereye.
The above is from google. Chatoyancy is a shimmer.
Here are some high-quality pietersite beads. I don't see (and never saw) any gray in them contrary to what google said. It's usually a combo of blue (as much as possible is desirable) and a rusty brown.
Both are Queensland boulder opal.
Is your avatar VCA? I recognize the flower as that. I think I remember you getting those butterflies a couple of years ago (SFA? or NM?)
Can we see a larger picture?
This weekend I spent time reading book reviews of "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. This was a flashback to the interim period between WW1 and WW2 (kinda sad). A few years ago I read his "Never Let Me Go" which a [futuristic] story about children being raised for organ donation. (Grim and sad). Yet, both books have in key respects similar themes according to the reviews I read.
A couple more and we'll have a congo line.
Curious koala sneaks into Australian home and climbs Christmas tree | CNN
Picture a Christmas tree and you'll probably think of baubles, tinsel and fairy lights, but one Australian woman came home to find an unusual adornment: A koala.
@eagle1002us I saw this article and immediately thought of you. This sweet little female Koala snuck into a house in Adelaide and climbed into a family’s Christmas tree. She was apparently hungry because she was chewing on the tree. I‘m sure she was disappointed because the tree was fake! Well, this adorable girl made me smile.
Edit: I just noticed that you just posted the article as I was posting this picture!
Edit: I just noticed that you just posted the article as I was posting this picture!