Count down with me--Day 8
I like polishing raw opal stones. When I was polishing an opal one day, I thought, the powder that came off the stone smelled strange. That was when I started writing "Taste of Opal."
I wanted to show you this as in-my-mind example of "jet and opal blood blended evenly," which didn't happen in the story, but the polishing didn't go very well.
This is called matrix opal.
I cut a chunk off this and polished that chunk.
This is an opal I polished long ago. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can see a beautiful blue among the green. This one kind of appears in the story.
This, by the way, is the first opal I ever polished. The seller recommended me something easy to polish.
Pre-order Like Smoke, Like Light here!
I wanted to show you this as in-my-mind example of "jet and opal blood blended evenly," which didn't happen in the story, but the polishing didn't go very well.
This is called matrix opal.
I cut a chunk off this and polished that chunk.
This is an opal I polished long ago. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can see a beautiful blue among the green. This one kind of appears in the story.
This, by the way, is the first opal I ever polished. The seller recommended me something easy to polish.
Pre-order Like Smoke, Like Light here!
date
newest »
newest »
Francesca wrote: "😮The matrix opal looks like outer space when you polish it!"
It looks even more so if you see it in person!
What a marvelous revelation. I have a chunk of raw opal with some shimmering revealed, but I've never done the polishing myself. Very cool.
Eavan wrote: "What a marvelous revelation. I have a chunk of raw opal with some shimmering revealed, but I've never done the polishing myself. Very cool."It's not that difficult, if you ever want to try! But opal is beautiful even raw, I have to admit.
The matrix opal looks like outer space when you polish it!