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Master Classes- Make Your Own Designer Opal Jewellery
 Beads
and Beyond U.K. Magazine
Chief Designer at Lost Sea, Jo Lindsay has
just completed a project piece for U.K. Magazine Beads
and Beyond , May 2008, Issue. Featured in their Jewellery
Master class series the project involved the
designing and making of a sterling silver pendant
with a bezel set, blue-green opal.
In the article Jo takes you step by step
through the making of the piece, finishing with a
beautiful, affordable, wearable item that any
jeweller would be proud of.
Click on the link to the right, to take you to a range of stones suitable for this project.
Colours of the Outback - Explore Lightning Ridge
 Beat the Winter Blues and add some Colour to your World!!
Come visit us in Lightning Ridge. Two day package $160p.p. (Twin share)
Drop into Lost Sea Opals to check-in and pick up your keys for Fossickers Cottages.
Once you have settled in, come back to visit our workshop for a free Opal Cutting demonstration. You will discover the methods used to create beautiful gold and silver opal jewellery,
right there in our jewellery studio. You then have the opportunity to buy ready to wear pieces or have your own piece designed and made just for you. Of course you must inspect our beautiful
showroom full of interesting and rare pieces including opal specimens from all over Australia, as well as our display of 100 million year old opalised fossils from the deep opal levels around Lightning Ridge.
Also on the agenda is a fabulous tour of the Black Queen bottle house Antique Lamp Museum and Light Show.
This prize collection of early lighting from the 1700's to the present day has to be seen to be believed. The peaceful natural surroundings of the Black Queen will help to relax and ease you into the easy lifestyle
that is Lightning Ridge. Gail and Roger your hosts will entertain and inform you as they guide you through their wonderful displays to give you a true impression of life in an opal mining community.
Your next adventure involves putting on your hard hat and grasping your torch ready to descend into the depths of the Chambers of the Black Hand. This complex maze of tunnels and drives was once an
opal mine but has now become an underground artistic wonder. Artist and opal miner Ron Canlin has created a sculptural masterpiece from the deep sandstone drifts of the opal levels creating a fascinating 3D
reference to the wonders of the world. Your guide will lead you through the various caverns and rooms not only explaining the art but also giving an informative geological talk at the same time - must for the
photographer and lover of the unusual.
Opal Festival - 24th-27th July 2008
 Lightning
Ridge will celebrate local culture and
character with its annual Opal Festival on
24 - 27 July 2008. The Opal & Gem Expo will
have a fantastic range of opal, jewellery, beads
and gems from all mining fields and the OJDAA
Trade Show will boast some of the world’s
best black opal.
Social activities include the spectacular Opal
Queen Ball on Saturday, Stallholders’ Wine
and Cheese night, International Opal Jewellery
Design Awards Opal Trade Show and parties and
entertainment jam-packed into the program.
Fabulously Gorgeous Handmade Glass Beads
 For
something funky and fun, treat yourself
to an original piece of jewellery using
hand-made glass beads.
Every bead is different and made up into
fabulous pendants, necklaces and earrings
with handmade sterling silver components.
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Win this Sterling Silver and Opal Pendant
Enter our Autumn
promotional draw. One entry with every
purchase. Drawn May 31st, 2008.
This marquise shaped
sterling silver pendant inlaid with opal
and hung on a sterling silver chain,
looks simply fabulous on anyone.
There is one entry
with every purchase so good luck!!!!
Winner of the
beautiful Sterling Silver drop pendant in our
February draw was S.R. of Narromine, NSW,
Australia.
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