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ArtisanCraft Club - Submissions 2009 - Vol. 20

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 15
This week's member submissions. Again, we are showcasing many awesome crafts, so be sure to check them out!

Holiday Feature 3 - Embrace your Geekness

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 13
A crafty holiday feature, this time it is a geeky feature for Embrace Your Geekness Day!

Sunday Feature 66

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 12
A Sunday Feature, written every Sunday, featuring 9 deviations with or without a theme in the artisan crafts section.

The Artisan Crafts Gallery, edition 77

`feetpeet:iconfeetpeet: reports, July 12
A selection of some wonderful and unique deviations submitted to the Artisan Crafts Gallery over the past week.

The blueprint of... Copper Mech Dragon

`Myana:iconMyana: reports, July 12
We're taking a closer look on an Artisan Crafts deviation and how it's made.
Today we are dissecting a clay dragon!

Exploring The Artisan Crafts Galleries, part V.

*LittleBlackGirl:iconLittleBlackGirl: reports, July 11
Exploring some unique and awsome artisan crafts! Please check their work!

ArtisanCraft Club - Submissions 2009 - Vol. 19

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 8
This week's member submissions. Again, we are showcasing many awesome crafts, so be sure to check them out!

Artisans and Functional Art - June 2009

^Kitten-of-Woe:iconKitten-of-Woe: reports, July 8
This is the fifth in this series that features art by members of the Artisan Crafts gallery that I feature daily in one of my journal modules. I add one each day and each is featured for 24-48 hours and then all are featured at the beginning of the next month as a group. These artisan works are found through my casual browsing and they could be very recently uploaded or they could be older works. They could have been made by very well-known artisans, by someone still unknown, or by someone very new to dA. They are random finds, so one gallery might be represented more than another and one artist might get featured more than once in the same month. My picks are totally random finds and that which struck me as something wonderful... I hope you think so, too, and that you enjoy this new series!

The Prop Collection

~Ai-Kiren:iconAi-Kiren: reports, July 7
A collection of props found here on dA

Bi-Weekly Feature 14 - Birds

=MyntKat:iconMyntKat: reports, July 5
Twelve crafty, feathery deviations featured under the theme "birds"

Artisan Crafts News This Week

Holiday Feature 3 - Embrace your Geekness

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 13
A crafty holiday feature, this time it is a geeky feature for Embrace Your Geekness Day!

ArtisanCraft Club - Submissions 2009 - Vol. 20

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 15
This week's member submissions. Again, we are showcasing many awesome crafts, so be sure to check them out!

The Artisan Crafts Gallery, edition 77

`feetpeet:iconfeetpeet: reports, July 12
A selection of some wonderful and unique deviations submitted to the Artisan Crafts Gallery over the past week.

Sunday Feature 66

*ArtisanCraft:iconArtisanCraft: reports, July 12
A Sunday Feature, written every Sunday, featuring 9 deviations with or without a theme in the artisan crafts section.

review of latest jewellery exhibition in London

~kalicat:iconkalicat: reports, July 13
Treasure in London, an exhibition of cutting edge jewelry designers
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Astounding Alexandrite

~SoulStoneDesigns:iconSoulStoneDesigns: reports, August 7, 2007
Alexandrite is a stone with a lot of mystique. Rare and expensive, this gemstone changes color from greens or blues to purples, magentas, and reds based not on the angle of the light, but the actual light temperature itself. It is the lesser-known June birthstone, and difficult to find in sizes over one carat weight. The stone was originally found in Russia, and named after the Czar Alexander, as the royalty found its green-to-red color change to match their own house colors. While there are other color-changing stones out there (Andalusite is another color-change chrysoberyl), I find that none are as mesmerizing as alexandrite.

I wanted to start out, not with jewelry, but with this great snapshot from :iconkeyla-etc: that really shows off the color change in these stones:



Here we have a gorgeous ring with three (!) sumptuous alexandrites from :iconcafeblanc:



Next is a pendant with a fantastic design by :iconwinnekmetal: - look closely for the alexandrite accents:



Peacocks and alexandrite? Yes please! By :iconyogarasu: :



A lab-grown stone in a funky setting by :iconnoformdesign: :



Alexandrites serve as accents for an amazing opal pendant by :iconjessa1155: :



And finally, alexandrite shines as the centerpiece in this lovely beaded necklace by :iconartisticauras: :



I'd love to feature more, but that's how rare this stone is - even on deviantART it's hard to find!

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~yogarasu:iconyogarasu: Aug 8, 2007, 12:40:40 AM
thanks for the feature :)

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`DAnnsCreations:iconDAnnsCreations: Aug 8, 2007, 9:47:03 AM Mood: Joy
Okay, I thought Alexandrite was as available as Amethyst. what a fool I was!! :D :D Now I'm going to have to go out and search for it just to see what is available here. :D :D My favorite bead and stone store gets excited when I come searching! :rofl: :rofl:

Beautiful selections *tiptoeing off to look at them all* :D :D Thank-you, I always learn when you speak! :hug:
Blessings,
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=Ellygator:iconEllygator: Aug 8, 2007, 10:13:35 AM
Wow! That's wonderful. I love your information and the research you have done to showcase this remarkable stone. (You also managed to expand my watchlist quite a bit...) Thank you!

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`wolfsax:iconwolfsax: Aug 8, 2007, 10:47:02 AM
Isn't it the birthstone for June?

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~CafeBlanc:iconCafeBlanc: Aug 8, 2007, 1:06:08 PM
Thank you for feature. :)
^Cedarseed:iconCedarseed: Aug 8, 2007, 1:53:19 PM
I hadn't heard of it, what a lovely discovery! Thanks for the info!

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~Kth-dragon:iconKth-dragon: Aug 8, 2007, 2:27:36 PM
It's nice to learn a thing or two about stones, and having such beautiful examples definitely doesn't hurt. ^..^

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*Amatata:iconAmatata: Aug 8, 2007, 2:52:48 PM
My high school ring is from Alexandrite... I got mine from a differeent company than most of the other people in my class. My classmates who got alexandrite got lower-quality stones that don't change color, so some of them were jealous!

I always thought it interesting how it is the stone for June... Cancer begins in June, Cancer's planet being the moon, the moon changes its shape... the other stone for June being Pearl, which is also reminiscent of the moon... makes you wonder how much thought went into some of these things!

If I ever decide to get married to heck with a diamond, this is what I want in my ring (if I decide to get a ring with a stone at all... not sure yet...)
~SoulStoneDesigns:iconSoulStoneDesigns: Aug 8, 2007, 3:41:26 PM
My own wedding ring has an alexandrite; I really only like diamonds as accent stones ;) I think alex is perfect for the Cancer stone, being a Cancer myself!

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