Spring is coming

It might not quite be spring yet, but we’re inspired by the fresh, lively hues of flower petals, new growth, crisp dawns, and dazzling butterfly wings. This piece is the flagship of the collection, indulging in delightful saturated hues, and playing with whimsical sweeping compositions. New pieces will be dropping into the STORE through the next few weeks and we’ll have a big live sale and jewelry drop anticipating Mother’s Day.

What’s on the Dops?

We’re back to doing some serious faceting in the studio for the spring jewelry drop. Sunstones are taking center stage, with their schiller, champagne clarity, and some color too. We’ll be adding some fun colored stones in with them, of course. The most exciting this is the Asymmetrical Facet Cuts that we’re doing from scratch here in the studio. We’re creating a design around each individual stone, so it will be the only one with that specific cut ever. The stones end up ‘one of a kind’ faceted little art pieces.

friday night lives!

Every Friday Night at 6pm Pacific Time, we go live on YouTube to discuss all the fun of the week (the latest making this asymmetrical gemstone). You’ll see if we’ve been preparing rough stones, cutting slabs, making cabochons, faceting gems, creating jewelry, mining stones, rockhounding or whatever zaniness we’ve been cooking up. We often have guests on to discuss rock/gem/mineral/creating topics and you’re welcome to join the chat for questions in real time or to lend your wisdom to the discussion. Check out Ozone Fine ArtVentures and make sure to subscribe or become a member to never miss out on the videos and livestreams there.

we’re tumbling for you

Tumbling? Like Tumbling rocks? It sounds like child’s play, but we’re pretty serious about some tumbling going on in the studio. You can see here a champagne sunstone in the 220 grit. We’re using a vibratory tumbler to ‘window’ the sunstones that we go mine so that we can sort them easier. It takes a special sunstone to be facetable; it needs to be clear, free of inclusions, and free of fractures. Doing these tumbles not only makes the stones look fantastic, but it really speeds the grading up so that we can glance at a stone and know it’s a contender for greatness!

Membership fun

Over on Youtube, we also have a membership side of the channel where extra content is placed. If you enjoy watching the process side of the jewelry and lapidary, that kind of video content will be on the membership side of the channel. We will also post extra footage and special previews from upcoming videos as a special thanks for your support. If you’re interested check out OzoneFineArt-Ventures where you can see all the regular videos and livestreams, and can sign up to be a member for less than a cup of coffee a month. All the proceeds go to funding the platforms to launch the livestreams and items to bring you video from our adventures (like cameras, mics, editing programs, memory, etc.). Thanks for your support!

New galleries

We’re building galleries featuring past jewelry projects, faceted gemstones, and some of our favorite cabochon creations. Not only will these galleries be fun eye candy, but also will serve as an example for custom work and future gem and jewelry projects. They are works in process, but feel free to check in and see what has been added as we go along! Here’s a quick link; GALLERY

We love doing rock unboxings and so do the canine staff, here at the Ozone. They’re the best rockhounds and are always on hand to help any way they can. We’d all love to hear from you, Contact Us with any inquiries of comments you may have and sign up for the mailing list so that we can keep in touch. Cheers!