Ooh, pretty! I just bought my aunt a set of coasters for Christmas that are similarly geologically themed.
Agate is nice, Malachite too. Much more expensive there than at a rock shop though.
Chinese take semi-precious stones pretty seriously, chinatown rock shops usually have nice things. I've been considering a scholar's stone for my dad, but shipping a rock seems completely crazy.
You might not be surprised to learn that there isn't a chinatown near me.
Even though poor little Brazilian children have to claw these stones out with their bare hands from the frozen tundra?
As well as walking thousands of miles to get to the tundra? Without shoes? Or feet?
Too pretty for Open Monitoring, not pretty enough for Focused Attention. No satori.
Gimme gray granite
This reminds me of trips with my Grandfather looking for agates. We walked the North shore of Minnesota along the second Great lake named after a state.
If Santa is coming, I'll have this please:
http://archtop.com/ac_48L12_1111.html
I have already gotten my Xmas gift:basketball!
I want or need nothing else. An SSD drive someday, when one of the many I have dies. A pair of socks.
I made the mistake of pointing out the insane Cusinart coffeepot deal at Amazon, almost as a joke. We will soon have six. We will lose the money back on beans.
I'd also like:
http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C399.html
3: You have friends that work five blocks from a Chinatown, however.
I would like one of these, please. (Bonus: they're local!)
Regarding stone things, I saw five minutes of some random home-improvement show, and they put in soapstone countertops, making me think that sounds awesome, even though there's probably an obvious downside.
14: I think the major downside is dings, but not necessarily a huge downside or something insurmountable. Apparently they're period-appropriate for our house, which is tempting. I'll probably ask the mineshaft about kitchen islands and the like when we get closer to actual renovation, but that's still a ways off.
And I love the OP coasters!
Kitchen islands should be made from concrete. We get tons of compliments.
Re 13
I think I was expecting that to be Clyde rather than John Stubblefield.
16: I'm sure you do! I'd sort of like soapstone for the island, butcher block for the counters. Or something. I don't know. But what do you use the island for? How big is it? What do you like about it?
I've never lived in a houe with an island, though my parents have built a dining room and now have an island cart in their kitchen, though it postdates me. We have a ridiculously big kitchen and I'm trying to figure out how we'll want to design and use it when we redo it.
OP link: Available in green, blue, eggplant, orange or natural.
Soooo green, blue, eggplant and orange are not the natural colors of those lodes of agate? What is the natural color of an agate?
Streaky brownish, usually. I don't know how they color them.
3: You have friends that work five blocks from a Chinatown, however.
Do I really? And is stuff like this there and obvious?
18: Kitchen islands are awesome; the lack of one here is something I sorely regret. What do you use it for? Everything! In the houses I've lived in with islands, it's where all the prep work happens, so I tend to like butcher block for the island.
A divided island, with half its width for people to sit at on the other side, and/or for bowls of fruit and whatnot, and the other half as workspace, is nice. Depends on the layout of the kitchen whether that works.
We used to have a galley kitchen, which I didn't like, and now we have one less half-wall, and a kitchen peninsula, which I like a lot.
my chinatown has astounding amounts of rock stores but shipping would be more difficult. I have considered getting my husband a scholar's stone and an antique chinese inkstone and brush, for the look of the thing, as he is a scholar and all, but I think he'd just regard it as taking up unneccessary space and would be sad when he learned how much it cost.
I am putting in a carrera marble counter and accepting there will be stains that I shall not freak out about. (when they occur, I will probably nonetheless freak out.)
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I suppose I should share this music video.
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