February | 2011 | Raqyz's Rocks

Something new

21 Feb 2011 2 Comments

by Raquel in Handmade jewelry, Pendants, wire weaved pendants Tags: blue green apatite, garnet, green tourmaline, http://wordpress.com/tag/jewelry/, Jewelry, Mexican fire opal, silver, silver pendant, tourmalines, wire weaved, wire weaved pendant, wire wrapped, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant, wire wrapping

So I’ve been wrapping a couple of pendants for the past couple of weeks and I have been wanting to make something in line with an amulet. Something different. So with a little weaving and then a little more weaving I have come up with these new two. The first has 2 tourmalines and a Mexican fire opal, the second has a faceted red garnet and blue green piece of apatite.

I am once again addicted to wrapping. Seems like I can’t stop for awhile then I take a break then back to being addicted. Crazy stuff.
Well thanks for stopping by! Hope you get to enjoy the the three day weekend. I know I am. 🙂

Super Sunday Cabbing

07 Feb 2011 Leave a comment

by Raquel in cabbing, wire weaved pendants Tags: cab, cabbing, chrysocolla, drusy, druzy, pendant, quartz, queensland agate, silver, wire weaving, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant, wire wrapping, wirewrapp

Super Bowl Sunday, and I get to cab til the game starts. Thats a wonderful day!.

I cabbed a small piece of Chrysocolla drusy that as left from a piece of stone I won on the Taogem forum. It had some amazing blue green or teal colored druse and dark green malachite druse. Its from Nuevo Mundo Imports. I highly recommend them if you want the best chrysocolla and malachite drusy. The crystals are so clear and shiny. Awesome stuff. Its pricey but you get what you pay for. I also cabbed another quartz drusy cab.

I also cabbed a Queensland agate. The Queensland agate has some very nice patterning and layers, plus a little drusy in the middle. Love it!

The icing on the cake?
Green bay won! yay!!

Back in the swing

05 Feb 2011 1 Comment

by Raquel in cabbing Tags: agate, cabbing, cabs, chrysocolla, drusy, dusy quartz, heart, laguna agate, polish, quarts, quartz

Back in the swing of cabbing anyway. I’ve been away from my cabbing equipment for awhile and it sure is good to be back at it. I was so excited that I couldn’t decide what I wanted to polish first. It was even a bit hard to concentrate. I found that I wanted to polish all the lil slabs I had cut. Which is way too many. So I started a few and only finished four. As soon as I get a chance I will finish the others. I ended up with a drusy quartz cab, a laguna agate, a queensland agate cab, and a chrysocolla cab.

I had read on a forum awhile back that one of the members there would mix a few different polishes and get a glass like shine on his cabs. So I tried it out. I mixed some red rouge, green polishing rouge, and cerium oxide equal parts. I got a really good polish but I think it needs to be mixed with something other than water. I didn’t like the consistency.

God is truly wonderful. It always amazes me when I cut a rock open and inside there’s this amazing pattern that you would never have thought could be in there. I can sit in awe just checking out a small slab of rock. I suppose this is my kind of meditation. All the layers and colors. Awesome!!

The pink Queensland agate just formed itself. All I had to do was take off the ugly brown stuff from the outside and it was already a heart. Not a perfect heart, but then who has a perfect heart?

The other cabs were just as much fun to make, the drusy has been on my mind for awhile, since drusy jewelry is all the rage now. The little crystals are so pretty and catch the light like stars.