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I put up this stone's photo last week and it was immediately commissioned as a pendant. It will have flames coming out of the sides and a salamander resting on some of the flames on one side, with a (probably) flaming tail. The salamander needs to be quite small, the body no more than 1.5".

I will need tiny toes on all four feet and that is going to be interesting to make. It will be a lot of very precise work. I'm not sure what kind of lovely markings it will have on the body. I'll be looking at lots of images of salamanders to soak them up and decide. It may be very subtle. I'm leaning that way right now but that could easily change.

I'm excited about making it and Bayla Fine, who commissioned it for her collection, had a beautiful idea for the flames and salamander. It works really well with the stunning stone. The small square clear part at the top is rock crystal and the stone itself is condor agate.

I'm looking to the future now ans starting to work on rings. I need a group of them before I start going to cons/shows.

I just almost finished one in wax that is lovely large moonstone with a big blue flashes. I am also going to work on a small charoite and a black agate with druze white crystals in the center.

I have an absurdly large stone collection that I've been collecting forever.

I've been looking through them tonight and these these three really appeal to me.

This is condor agate and the clear portion is rock crystal. It's even lovelier in the actual stone.
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This is lunar agate. the crystals are druze and figuring out how to make sure that the ones on the side are visible in a ring is going to be challenging.
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This is Icelandic spar. It's a stunning form of rock crystal that is only found there. I brought it back from my trip there, after doing some real searching.

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