I can not believe that almost a week has gone by since my last post.  Last Saturday I did find and bring home quite a bit of petrified wood.  I have been so busy re-doing some jewelry that I haven't even taken a good look at the wood.  Tomorrow it is off to Santa Fe again to close on some property.  A move to Santa Fe is in the future hopefully sooner rather than later.  I'm posting pics of the jewelry that I modified to use a different type of closure.  Seems that people want an adjustable closure, so I added a lobster clasp and some extender chain as opposed to my hand-crafted toggle clasps.  These pictures were made before I changed out the clasps.

You can probably tell that I am partial to lapis.  I love its deep blue color.

I also love this beautiful pistachio green jasper.  I found this at Quartzsite, AZ a couple of years ago and bought all that I could find.  I had never seen any stone like it before and haven't seen any since.

And, of course, turquoise. 

I plan to work in the studio next week.  I want to work on some new designs, but have several rings to make for a gallery in Texas.  That takes precedence.