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[badstar]

My new default user pic is...you guessed it, the Bad Star, the pentacle that gave my journal its name, and one that's gotten me into trouble several times.

(If you never caught the story, a few years ago I was working for Rite Aid in Halethorpe and a little kid came up to the cash register with his mother. The kid looks at me and says to his mom "Hey mommy, that lady's wearing one of those bad stars, that means we have to pray for her soul, right?" I found the whole thing somewhat apalling, but ultimately humorous and decided to use it as my journal's title.)

In other news, if you have any interest in perusing a decent chunk of my collection of rocks and crystals- but BY NO MEANS all of them (cause they're pretty and shiny and stuff), I now have a gallery here:

http://pics.livejournal.com/fuego/gallery/0000379s

Comments

[ex-acousticd43.livejournal.com]

There's no way I could possibly take pictures of all the stones I have. It'd drive me insane.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

i took a lot of "group" shots

and i didn't get all of mine either. wasn't going to try.

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Ah, so that's where it comes from. Kids, such loudmouths, huh? Always revealing their parents as the assholes that they are. :-)

[liritsvoice.livejournal.com]

bad star? BAD STAR?!?!? you do yourself a disservice. youre the baddest star EVAR!!!!!!! :-D

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

those are so pretty! what does tumbled mean? and how do you get them so shiny?
where do you usually get the stones and how do your store them?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

"tumbled" basically means that the stones have been polished, but not cut in a specific way...it comes from the machine that is used to polish them, a barrel-shaped contraption called a tumbler. it's the polishing process that makes them so shiny.

most of my stones right now live on a couple of shelves that are built into my bedroom wall- they just sit on the shelves, but that will be changing in the near future because I have other plans for those shelves. I might look into getting some little wall-mounted curio cabinet or something. some of them stay in little velvet bags, mostly the smaller tumbled ones. I want to get some sort of clear glass containers to keep the large piles of the same stones but I haven't found any that suit me yet

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

how do you get them polished? can you have your own tumbler?

so it doesn't hurt them to sit in a glass bowl together?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

well, all the ones i have, i've bought, but tumbling machines are available in most major craft stores like Michael's or AC Moore. And no, it doesn't hurt them to sit in a container together.

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

oh cool. :) thank you. :)