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I have the setting I designed for this black opal polished and set. I can't put the photo up until the person who commissioned it receives it. So I decided to celebrate finishing it by putting up this photo of the stone.



I've also finished an Ethiopian opal ring and an Ethiopian opal pendant, both set with very small diamonds. I worked on photos of both of them. The ring is not photographable and the pendant photographs well for the silver design work, but this particular kind of Ethiopian opal, brilliant and fiery, doesn't seem to photograph well ever. It's frustrating. I'll probably put the photo up anyway after the commission has been received. Especially since the silver texture work is a new direction for me that is making me very happy.

I seem to have solved the design problem on my fantasy map sculpture. I still have a lot of fine technical work to do, but I'm really happy to have solved the design problems.

I'll mostly be working on the sculpture for a while and finishing the two bronze pendants I wrote about earlier.


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The wax of the bird with opals is finished. That feels great. I'm going to photograph the wax and then the finished design and put them both up together.

I'm working on several designs right now, including a complex pendant landscape of Saguro cactus against a mountainous background. It's going to be set with lovely emeralds that I got on my last trip to New York.

And I have a group of new designs polished and ready for setting.

This a a Cheshire Cat pendant from "Alice in Wonderland" that I made along time ago for Bayla Fine. I shot it when I was in New England in June.


It's sterling silver and black opal.