I love coffee. Crave it all the time. My friends have told me that I am scary without coffee. They said I look like a zombie and I feel like a zombie with a headache and shakies without caffeine lol. Great picture and I love the ring.

A little over twenty years ago, a dear friend persuaded me to give up coffee. I took her several years to convince me. After about a month, she begged me to please start drinking coffee again.

A living Puppet is better than a zombie-puppet any day.

hahahaha.

It's great to see turquoise being used.

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Thanks. I live in New Mexico. Its even in the gravel of some people's front yards. Besides its nice to work with if you cut your own. And I like what it looks like. The other thing I cut a lot, 'though it is not from here and smells really bad when your cutting it, is gold lip oyster. Also called mother-of pearl.

I've done some stone cutting before and have cabbed some wonderful spider turquoise. I also cabbed some malachite and boy was that messy. The malachite grit that comes off of the grinder is a dark black paste-like material that does a good job of staining skin. No wonder it was used as a pigment in Egyptian times.

Still, both turquoise and malachite are beautiful materials. I just wish turquoise wasn't so expensive these days and around here ( Michigan ) the rough is hard to find. On the other hand, we have petoskey stones and agates which wash up on the beaches and make for some great material. You can even "hand polish" the petoskey stones with some sand paper and cerium oxide. A little elbow grease never hurt anyone, right?

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Careful with the malachite. It contains a lot of arsenic that gets airborne while it is being cut. The mud is probably not too good to get on your skin either. But yes it is very pretty.

You mentioned its use as a pigment. Malachite and azurite are both hydros copper carbonate. Each using a different valence of copper. Around Di Vinci's time, there were some that would sell azurite as lapis to be used as ultramarine blue pigment. The copper in azurite has an unstable valence, and with exposure to light would shift to its more stable valence, changing it to malachite. Over time the portions of a painting using this pigment would change from blue to green.

Wow... this really has a lot of detail! Nice work!!!

That's awesome. I love it when people do amusing, un-boring things with stones.

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