The New Year | Welcome 2015

I love the new year.  Fresh.  Full of possibility.  It’s no secret that I love rocks.  And I’m in a happy place standing or sitting in front of my grinder.  Led Zeppelin playing.  So I just keep cabbing and cabbing.  And I love making jewelry.  My conundrum is that I am making cabs faster than I can set them.  I have a lot.  And one of my vices is buying rocks.  LOL.  I posed the question on FB and IG asking if I should list some for sale and was pleasantly surprised and humbled by the response.  So listing it is.  🙂 If I can figure out the best way to handle shipping on here I’ll list them on my site.  Otherwise I’ll just list them on my Azoho FB page.  And there are groups that I belong to on FB that have auctions a few days each week.  I’ll get this sorted out and it put a smile on my face.

2015 Cab Group January w

Cutting Turquoise

August 2014 Turquoise wThis piece of turquoise is almost finished.  I’ve got one last “wheel” before I polish it.  This week has kept me a bit busy but I’m hoping to finish this sweet stone in the next couple of days.  It’s got both greens and blues with little bits of brownish matrix.  I seriously love cutting turquoise.  At this point in the process I still haven’t decided if this will be a ring or a necklace.  There’s still time for that.  I’ll have to check my records to see if I was given the mine where this came from.  All I can say right now is it’s from the US.

Sea Turtle. Azoho style.

Artist cut turquoise and silver.
Artist cut turquoise and silver.

I have to admit that I’m very proud of this piece. I have a dear friend who loves sea turtles. And I love turquoise. This is one of the prettiest stones that I have ever cut. I do have a show next month so I think I may make a similar piece to offer.