Hey Bead Lovers! Here's some lovely pieces I made out of new material I got when I was in Tucson last month. I got one chunk of this material called Sonora Sunrise from Sonora, Mexico. It's a beautful sky blue chrysocolla with firey red cuprite and I believe that the black is tenorite. They are all secondary minerals after copper. I only got three beads out of the one fist sized chunk of rough I got and these are the two big dramatic ones... I picked up a pound of massive kyanite crystals from Tanzania and cut these two pieces. The dealer is a German fellow who is from near Idar Oberstein and deals only in Tanzanian gemstones. I really love the cats eye effect and schiller that make these appear like a blue gray lightning captured in stone...

and I got this super adulaurescent sunstone from Tanzania from the same dealer. If one looks at the edge of this sunstone bead there is a moonstone effect on the side, sort of like a sunstone-moonstone hybrid!

. That's it for now. I'm cutting quite a few new things so more to come!