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I took a week long lapidary class with Michael Boyd at Brooklyn Metal Works the last week in October. Michael is a fabulous teacher and the eleven other people in the class were all incredibly skillful jewelers, so it was a wonderful class. These are what I cut during the class. There's prehnite (the green), purple garnet, aquamarine, topaz, lemon quartz (the other green), and...

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The small dendritic agate and the tanzanites I found online. The large dendritric agate I found at Golconda Jewelry. It's an Alatakyr dendritic agate from Kazakhstan. The smaller ones are from India. All the baroque pearls came from the NY Mineral Show, which is small but eclectic. The tanzanites are becoming earrings. I've finished the design. I think I know what the dendritic agate, and...

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My friend, Odette's great aunt Nattey spent 70 years collecting jewelry. She gave it all to Odette. It's a huge, eclectic bunch of jewelry. Odette chose a group of pieces from the kitschy part of the collection, invited 25 jewelers with different styles to choose a piece, and then use it as inspiration for a new piece. The result is this show. The Cutting Through...

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