I am having so much fun with my new rocks as it is so exciting to figure out what I can make next. There are so many different types of rocks now that are just begging to be made into something beautiful. One of the things I got was bags and bags of apache tears, also known as obsidian. I had no idea what to do with them as they were all shapes and sizes. I got an idea to go ahead and polish up one of the smaller stones to see what it would look like. So I took it over to the lapidary machine and away I went polishing away. Before long (actually not long at all – like 30 minutes!) I saw a beautifully shaped stone and I held it under the light and noticed it was translucent, almost clear like a smokey quartz. This got me thinking how beautiful this would look hanging as a focal stone from a necklace. So off I went and drilled a nice hole in the top of the “tear drop” and decided to do a wire wrap design on the top. I think it came out quite nice after I accented it with a few smokey quartz stone and bali silver beads. Check it out below!

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