Karmic Star | Artist
Karmic Star
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25.01.2022 Check out this next-level Smokey Quartz carving by Bespoke Gems <3
21.01.2022 An album of Sterling Silver jewellery that is updated whenever new pieces are created! Every piece you see here has been lovingly handcrafted by me, then cleansed and charged before it is made available. All the Sterling Silver wire that I use in my jewellery is 100% recycled, manufactured by a local company who use the very latest equipment to produce their wire in the most environmentally responsible way possible.... My ongoing focus is to use more stones that have been handcut and polished by myself and my husband, Mike, and also those handcut by other Australian Lapidarists, especially those locally in Canberra. I also have a passion for Australian stones so make sure you check out my "Australian Stone Series Pendants" here : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/ Available pieces are listed at my Etsy Store, so please pop over and have a browse : www.karmicstar.etsy.com Should you require more information, please contact me via email : [email protected] - or use the 'Message' button at the top of my Page. Thank You <3
20.01.2022 Happy World Kindness Day <3 <3 <3
20.01.2022 Well, aren't you a pretty one?! <3
18.01.2022 New Earrings at Let's Be Natural at Mawson Shops, all lovingly handcrafted by me from Australian-made, 100% recycled Sterling Silver. Check them out next time you’re stocking up on bulk whole foods and all things healthy and natural
18.01.2022 Blue Halite Imagine sprinkling a little bit of this on your evening meal. This is the mineral halite literally NaCl or common table salt. The Na and Cl atoms ...in table salt are arranged in an alternating pattern that builds up one of the classic simple cubic structures found in minerals. Halite’s simple structure can have a surprising amount of weird complexity to it, and it is this complexity that halite can generate a color. For a mineral to have a color, there must be something in the mineral capable of absorbing light in the visible range. In this case, the color is caused by an electron in the structure that has broken free of the chemical bond where it used to be trapped. If halite is buried in the ground, it is exposed to natural radiation from decay of elements such as potassium, uranium, and thorium that are common in the crust. That radiation has enough energy to break bonds between Sodium and Chlorine, effectively turning the sodium into a neutrally charged metal atom in the process. This radiation damage leaves a free electron sitting in the crystal structure that is not strongly bonded to any atom; loose electrons like that are called color centers as they are capable of strongly absorbing visible light. This chunk of salt is ~12 centimeters long on each side, and weighs about a kilogram. -JBB Image credit: https://flic.kr/p/2j8S1Nj Reference: https://www.sciencedirect.com//a/abs/pii/S0022231317303216 #Mineralmonday
16.01.2022 Here’s a peek at some of the Karmic Star treasures that have recently arrived at Avalon InLa’Kesh in Darwin - if they call to you, get in touch with Jennine at Avalon InLa'Kesh
16.01.2022 Always makes me think of Rainbow Obsidian <3
15.01.2022 I am so excited to have a special selection of my jewellery available at Avalon InLa’Kesh in Darwin, NT! Each piece has been carefully chosen by Jennine to complement the wonderful array of treasures she has curated in her boho boutique and healing centre check out her page here on Facebook to find out more about Avalon InLa'Kesh
15.01.2022 Seemed appropriate to list this Snowflake beauty on this chilly Friday ;) <3
15.01.2022 Happy Fri-Yay! It’s cold but sunny here today, and I’m hoping the weather-gods will be kind enough to let me get some ‘proper’ photos of these very special treasures created by Mike and I In the meantime, message me if any of them call out to you and you’d like more info (the Cauldron at the centre is already listed, so I’ll post the link in comments if you’d like to make it yours) Clockwise from top left : Velvet Obsidian, Petrified Palm Root, Black Sunstone, Black Granite, Ruby in Kyanite x 2 (the Heart is SOLD), Dendritic Chalcedony, Snowflake Obsidian, Pyrite #fromourheartsandhands
14.01.2022 Feeling pretty blessed to be spending time crafting with these very special beauties - Sugilite and Astrophyllite How’s your day looking? Hope you’re finding some pockets of joy and having a Happy Fri-Yay
14.01.2022 These beauties are patiently waiting for me to polish their outfits and dress them up! What are you up to today? Hope you’re having a fabulous Fri-Yay! . . . . . Clockwise from top left - Amethyst, Tiffany Stone [sold], Rhodonite [sold], and Tiger Eye - all shaped and polished by Mike
12.01.2022 All the Pendants in this album feature Australian stones that have been hand-cut and polished here in Australia, either by myself and my husband, or by other selected Australian Lapidarists whose wonderful stones I am proud to showcase in my work. I then design and create the woven-wire settings with Australian-made 100% recycled, eco-friendly Sterling Silver, and cleanse and charge each Pendant before it is made available. I hope you love them as much as I do! :) <3 To purchase, please head to my Etsy store at www.karmicstar.etsy.com or email me [email protected] - thank you! :)
10.01.2022 The Way Is Shut These features, found near the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, are known as the Putangirua Pinnacles. These piles are a fun story of... sedimentary processes and of erosion. The rocks are very coarse-grained sediments. In the pinnacles in the foreground you can make out >10 cm diameter clasts that stick out of the piles of dirt and hint at their origin. During the Miocene period, plate tectonic processes were lifting up the rocks of the North Island and they were eroding as fast as weather could eat them away. Streams took these broken sediments and carried them away, depositing them wherever they could find space, such as on the edge of the island near the ocean. These streams were short so the sediments didn’t have much time to be ground down into finer grains. Big grains were carried and dumped right next to small grains, creating a poorly sorted, conglomerate deposit. Other sediments then buried these rocks; in this case fossil-bearing layers testifying to an increase in the depth of the ocean that submerged the sediments. The beds at this site are not perfectly horizontal today. Instead, later plate tectonic processes, possibly whatever faulting brought them back to the surface, tilted them. Recently deposited sediments usually are poorly lithified. It takes millions of years of burial, heating, and pressure to make sediments stick together as solid rocks; these young sediments are therefore very weak. The rocks are so weak that a minor breeze can pick up little pieces of the pillars and blow them around. When these rocks were exposed to the erosive force of the modern Putangirua River, it began cutting through them. However, in some spots, the river ran into obstacles. There were a few really big boulders in this conglomerate and those boulders need a lot of moving water to move them. The modern river and streams flowing through don't have the energy to move these boulders, and instead the water goes around them, staying in the weak spots. Erosion carves away the loose rocks below and leaving pinnacles beneath the boulders it did hit. The combination of recent sediments, gravel, and collapsing boulders makes this area difficult for vegetation to take hold. In fact, if you walked through here, there’s so little plant life you might think everything around was dead. This property has its benefits though this site was featured in the final Lord of the Rings movie, the Return of the King, as the Dimholt Road. Next time you’re watching the movie, look at the poorly sorted gravel along the trail that leads to the Paths of the Dead. -JBB Image credit: https://flic.kr/p/fWzhd Read more: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/putangirua-pinnacles http://www.thousandwonders.net/Putangirua+Pinnacles http://www.geo.brown.edu/research/Boesenberg/NewZealand.html http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Dimholt
10.01.2022 I love seeing my creations out in the world with their keepers! Thanks to the very talented Melanie of Mesmerizing Blue for the share - and check out her beautiful lamp shade! Love! :) <3
09.01.2022 My Moon Earrings have sold out at my favourite local stockist, Let's Be Natural, so it’s time to make some magic!
06.01.2022 I love it when Dendritic Chalcedony reminds me of a wintery scene Sending out Solstice Blessings to you all, be it frosty or warm where you are
03.01.2022 Absolutely beautiful! <3 <3 <3
03.01.2022 Vermont Serpentinite Serpentinite is a common rock on Earth, and probably throughout the solar system. It is a type of metamorphic rock, produced when one of th...e most common minerals in the planet olivine gets exposed to water near the surface of the Earth, which of course happens all the time. A bit of water and a bit of pressure and the mineral structure changes, turning it into a soft, easily deformed rock. Many serpentinites have a fibrous appearance like this one from Vermont. There can be two factors driving this appearance; first, these rocks are so soft that they can deform easily in response to the stresses of mountain building. In that case, these lines are slickenlines, reflecting one part of the rock grinding against another. Alternatively, some (But not all) serpentine minerals can grow in a habit where they form long needles; minerals that grow in this habit are lumped together as asbestos minerals. Serpentine-bearing rocks therefore can naturally host asbestos, and mines in the area where this rock came from in Vermont produced asbestos for more than half a century. Serpentinite rocks and serpentine minerals are most often found where little bits of Earth’s mantle get thrust up onto the continent, creating a feature we call an ophiolite. These are commonly produced when continents collide or when continents run into island arcs, as a bit of the mantle gets trapped in the collision zone. The serpentinites in Vermont are the remnant of the Taconic Orogeny, a mountain building event 440 million years ago where a volcanic island arc was thrust upon what is today New England, folding and faulting much of the area in the process. -JBB Image credit: James St. John https://flic.kr/p/2iE3pj4Reference https://bit.ly/2BhQPrk Previous TES series on Asbestos and health problems: https://www.facebook.com//a.35286736810764/778584158869297 #Mineralmonday
01.01.2022 This very special other-worldly beauty has just landed Black Sunstone, shaped and polished by Mike and embraced by me with recycled Sterling Silver. Follow the link in comments to find out more and make it yours
