I’VE GOT ROCKS!
I’m so excited about the new work I’ve just put up on the website, particularly about the “Aquarium” necklaces. They feature “Lodenite” stones — rocks really!
Each Lodenite stone tells a story, visually speaking, with a different shape/size and with a different colorway. Each 
stone is clear and domed and so refracts its bottom rock layer into a scene. Peering into each stone is similar to the experience of being drawn into the exploration of an aquarium. Here’s a close-up of one such stone, but unfortunately none of these pix does justice to the mystery in each of them. (You may view this close-up by clicking on either or both of the links listed below.)
So, I grouped five stones in each necklace, using stones to offset their colorways.
One necklace pairs dark amethyst crazy-cut amethyst beads with hammered light amethyst beads, alternating with small purple-dyed pearls and finished with a new find in closures: agate closures in different hues, this one with some amethyst shading. http://www.msturman.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=152&zenid=99cbfa9678d6b8557cdfcc24e7ce8548
In another necklace, responding to the coppery sort of colorways of the lodenite, I used rough-hewn red quartz 
stones and light peach natural tailed and circled pearls, alternating with tiny Akoya pearls and the agate closure in orangey hues. http://www.msturman.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=151&zenid=99cbfa9678d6b8557cdfcc24e7ce8548
I have another lodenite necklace in the works set off with natural pearls and a pearl closure. My favorite, I think!
Do they look as exotic to you as they do to me? By the way, they’re not heavy pieces!
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