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Handmade Halloween Wire Pendant A playful, one-of-a-kind pendant created by hand from copper and silver-coated copper artistic wire. The flowing, textured wire strands are gathered with warm copper wrapping, giving the piece an organic, slightly whimsical...

Sunlit Faced front view A luminous 0.65-carat faceted opal glows within an elegant setting of gold-filled wire. Its carefully cut facets catch the light beautifully. Flashes of red, orange, and green appear as the pendant moves.Unlike the smooth cabochon opals we...

There are stones you admire, and then there are stones that seem to speak. This piece of Opal belongs to the latter. At first glance, it carries the soft, earthy presence of aged wood—long, linear, almost like a memory preserved in mineral form. But as light moves...

Discover a kaleidoscope of shifting hues captured within a single, mesmerizing stone. This genuine opal isn't just a gem; it’s a living painting. With every movement, it reveals a hidden landscape of electric blues, fiery oranges, and neon greens. Perfect for the...

Just in time for Halloween! This unique hand-polished opal has taken on the whimsical shape of a tiny gourd — almost like a glowing ghost pumpkin. Its milky translucent body glimmers with flashes of green and blue, giving it an enchanting, otherworldly glow. Perfect...

This month in our workshop is something truly special emerged, a striking piece of Woodopal that's been millions of years in the making. The journey began with a raw unassuming log shape fossil. Its outer surface still carrying the textures from ancient bark and...

Mexican fire Opal Gold-filled pendant Story to this pendant in 2023 on our last season of Opal mining we went, I tried to wirewrapped a Pearl except somehow I changed my mind and wrapped a Mexican fire Opal instead. As the final product is done, I looked at the...

OPAL MINING SEASON 2025 IS ALMOST HERE! To those opal enthusiasts out there, have fun finding opals! Opals are sometimes tricky to recorganize once they are embeded in clay and covered in clay, but when they are uncovered as shown in the picture below they are...

At the End of the year 2024, my eyes caught wood opals slabs, we have cut some years ago. Remembering that we had some pictures of it , I then went check my photos collections, sure enough I found some. Time passed by so unbelievable fast, that when I look into the...

Wood opals, are often confused  with  petrified woods, In our area is common to  find Wood opal, It is literally wood like ordinary wood axcept much more older than ordinary wood, in matters of the fact they are ancient, about 15 million years old....