Posted on Instagram on July 19, 2019

"When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone."
(Autumn Morning Star)
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Still working on a different relationship with anxiety and fears, while working on these dragon pieces.
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Today I was thinking about what my therapist always tells me - the anxiety is like a wave, don't fight it, let it ebb and flow.
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One of my jewelry heroes, @flannerygrace sometimes puts abalone under transparent or semi transparent gems, and I always thought how beautiful it was - but, despite my placing all the things under stones (snake skin and fur and water and tears and whatever) it never happened that I tried that technique.
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Today I was choosing between an abalone - for the water - while also playing with a few rutile quartzes just because I liked their light.
The quartz cabochon slipped and fell on the abalone slice, that was upside down. And it fell right how you see it here: with that dark natural line of the abalone straight in the middle of it.
A perfect dragon eye pupil.
How could I miss the chance?
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So, even if I was mildly worried as I never did this before, I cut the abalone and made the piece and kept my fingers crossed 🤣
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I love the result.
It's almost impossible to make it justice with pictures (I will post a video shortly!), but I can tell you I just keep gazing at it, moving it and enjoying every single color that shines through.
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Who knows, maybe someday I will be able to look at my thoughts like that, observing and being curious about them, without letting them drag me around and drown me?
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Sterling and fine silver, hand carved, with a hand drawn water dragon in the back.
Abalone and Rutile Quartz.