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December 2, 2007 by Tien Chiu

Carnelian brooch

After two days of solid work, I have completed my oeuvre.  Sadly, I have no sunlight to photograph it in at the moment, so you’ll have to settle for two not-too-good photos of it.  The first shows the glow of the carnelian cabochon, but is overexposed due to the flash; the second doesn’t show the carnelian well, but does show off the brass and copper nicely.  Sorry if the photo looks a little weird; I did some work in Photoshop to restore the warmth of the brass/copper since the light I had for photographing was very blue in cast, but I’m not a Photoshop expert so may have gotten it wrong.  It looks OK on my monitor, not sure about yours.

At any rate, here are the pix:

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I’m quite parentally proud of this brooch/shawl pin; the carnelian is beautiful and the copper, brass, and silver bezel setting show it off nicely.  And it’s mine, mine, all mine!

Mike made a beautiful pendant of which he is equally (and justly) proud – I’ll see if I can get pix for you later.

The Crucible is way cool.  Mike and I are agreed that we want to take more classes there.

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