Tight purple-lavender and cream banding wraps a golden-yellow eye center — classic Laguna fortification pattern. Clean halve cut, rind intact with small druzy quartz pockets on the edges. 20g of serious color. 💜
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Coyamito pseudomorphs form when agate slowly replaces original calcite or aragonite, inheriting the exact geometric shape while swapping the mineral. The result: agate wearing a foreign form. Rare because timing and chemistry must align…
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If some lady handed me a free sword I'd still take it though.
Froggy Fund has been added to my Throne if you wish to chip in😖 I also have Venmo OR you could purchase a set on my OF 🤗❤️🐸 Here are some pics of the kitty herself. I also always leave some graffiti when left in dr offices for too long (links in comments)
"I like big feldspars and I cannot lie." Pegmatite on the edge of Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. ⚒️
Deep amber and burnt orange banding flows in tight, complex waves across this halve, with red accent lines and white chalcedony pockets at the edges. Raw rind intact. Clean polish on a wild natural silhouette. 🔥
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
Background paintings from The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions
Today I am obsessesing over the covers of E. R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" and later Zimiamvian Trilogy illustrated by native midwesterner Barbara Remington. Just an absolutely phenomenal house style for Ballantine Books.
‼️The sketches and prints need to go ASAP so I’ll be offering buy 2 get one FREE on everything including sketches.‼️ (Buy 2 get 1 free of equal or lesser value) Please comment below with screencaps of the items you want and I’ll DM you.
✯ A Tired Inkwell ✯@aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 2w agoAll of the remaining sketches are for sale. First come, first serve. Please leave a screencap of the sketch you want in a comment and I’ll DM you payment info. ☺️ I accept PayPal and Venmo. These are shipped via snail mail within the US. (No international shipping, sorry!)
less than 10 days for us to reach our goal… if we don’t get to 400 units tiny meowdy will never become real :( can you help? look at this little guy!! www.makeship.com/products/tin...
Galena Quartz Sphalerite Crystal Cluster - Krushev dol Mine, Bulgaria Goldenhourminerals.com goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/1634...
A octahedron of pyrite with galena. Huanzala mine, Huallanca Dist., Ancash, Peru. www.goldenhourminerals.com goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/4438...
This is a great little zine, fantastic art, one of the best I've gotten in some time. Highly recommend.
indui@monstermonger.bsky.social · 2mo agoReprint orders are open for the rest of today! (May 24) For the reprint, i made a new cover (since the old one was just a repeat of one of the inner illustrations), and also added one more eco region, the High Desert :D So now it has: 🌊 The Coast Range 🌲 The Valley 🏔️The Cascades 🏜️ The High Desert