Lol, so ... I never did like the whole idea of buying gifts, especially for extremely commercialized holidays like Christmas or Valentines day, in fact I hate celebrating Valentines day all together, lol but I am in a fairly new relationship with someone who has been a great friend for many years before that, and he never had someone to make him feel special on silly holidays before, so I figured I would surprise him next Thursday.... I made him the Amulet of Mara , the gem is an aqua colored Jade stone I had for many years, it has some machine beveled cuts in so it shines nicely in the light ...

all it needs now is a paint job .... tell me what you think everyone


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I apologize for looking a greasy defeated crusty mess, lol on top of it being a holiday and all, my boyfriend and I are in the grand process of moving so between pushing boxes around, filling boxes, lifting objects ... and making a complete mess of things it is a bit hard to find time for being a person ....so I was hoping a silly gift would be able to lift some of the stress he has been under .... I will be posting photos of it painted up before I put it in a box ..... The photos here with me in the pictures are of the item fully cured and the ones of it sitting in my hand was before baking and slight sanding .... but tell me what you all think lol I know it is not the regular box of chocolates ... later :]

That is really excellent, wonderful job.

Thank you! I look forward to seeing how all the knots stand out once it is painted, paint makes a tremendous difference

I'm sure He'll appreciate anything you put your heart to. That is really unique.

Love it!