Photo Of The Day February 26, 2010 from Nasa’s Website

This is the Great Carina Nebula. It spans over 300 light years and is one of our galaxy’s largest star-forming regions, home to some very young and very massive stars (paraphrased from Nasa). The nebula is so extremely beautiful and reminds me of one of favorite stones, Pink Agate.

I’m not really into pink agate when it’s polished but these rough cut pieces are so gorgeous. The colours are prominent and interesting, shades of pink peaking out from behind each other. When the stone is polished it becomes much more uniform and although the pink is much brighter, I just see it as super dull and wierd looking.

The stones decided to model themselves in front of my 1950′s vintage dolly head tissue dispenser. She sits by my bed and stares at me at night. My absolute favorite thing is having people over and seeing their expressions when they notice her, what’s that? I’ll admit, she’s a little creepy, but in the best possible way.

I’m trying to think of different ways I can use the stones. I’m pretty set on creating some rings, but we’ll see how far I get. Seriously though, how sick would those be as rings?