October’s birthstone is one of my favourites, Opal! Every single opal is uniquely different, with the best specimens showing flashes of colour and vibrancy including all the colours of the rainbow! We have several loose opals at the moment, including the three in the picture, I just have to decide what to make with them! The crystal opal in the front of the picture is a particularly lovely one (even though as per usual I am finding it impossible to capture the mesmerising colour displayed by this gorgeous gem in a picture) not only does it have the usual colour flashes of yellow, orange and green, but it also displays lots of red flashes and a stunning blue that looks like lightening running through! The other two are equally unusual, because they are both fire opal which is usually a lovely flat transparent orange colour, but these two are an orange body colour that also shows really vibrant flashes of green, yellow and orange (the pear shaped one even flashes blue too!) As you can probably tell, I get quite excited about unique rare and beautiful gemstones like these, they’re not something you see every day and I can’t wait to get started on designs!
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