Moon Art Glass Paperweight Rings Or a tribe of elves

Or a tribe of elves

and from the open ocean to where rivers meet the sea

75 size will vary

Quartz is one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's crust and comes in a wide variety of colors

this pyrite on fluorite is a fine specimen of two intergrown crystals

Moon Art Glass Paperweight Rings Or a tribe of elvesGlass Eye Studios in Seattle, Washington hand blows their astronomy paperweights using dichroic glass and ash from the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Dichroic glass is an optical metallic oxide glass developed by NASA to protect sensitive equipment from cosmic radiation and to protect astronauts from harmful unfiltered sunlight while in space. Extremely thin layers of metal are vacuum deposited on glass and the layers permit some light and color