I love love BLue tigers eye. A little love story for you....When I was 7 or 8 I was at a flea market with my mom and found a large piece of blue tigers eye with no gold streaks in it. I fell in love. If I remember right he wanted like 10 dollars for it. I think I had like 2 dollars and I was heartbroken. He took pity on me and sold it to me for my two dollars. I treasured it . With all the moves I dont know what happened to it. But it facinated me and something about it touched me deaply. When I started designing jewelry I started looking for blue tigers eye remembering that pretty piece from my childhood. At the local gemshow I found a vendor with some quarter sized polished nuggets. While chooseing 3 for myself I had a strange realization, the color of blue tigers eye is eirily similar to the deep blue of the love of my lifes eyes. His eye color has always facinated me, I like to think that when I saw that breathtaking streaked blue so many years ago... it was a part of the twisted path that led me to the man I love so much. When I found this piece I chose it for its unmarred blue. No obvious gold streaking. I wanted to compliment it but not draw attention from the piece itself so I put a simple silver bail on it and paired it with a teeny faceted apatire rondelle to compliment the lighter blues and a sterling silver flower to make it a little more feminine. I have worn it nonstop since I finished it. I did go back and buy the other blue tigers eye she had, it has gold streaking through it but is gorgeous also. I havent decided what to do with it....
Its hard to capture the lighter nuances of the blue tigers eye. It looks darker in the pictures than it really is.
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