so here's all the stones I carved in ten weeks of a lapidary course
a rose quartz... I don't know what this shape is meant to be honestly, squished half pipe?
lab grown opal teardrop that I had set in a necklace, it's really hard to capture on camera but the colors move so gorgeously irl... though I feel like the shape itself came out slightly lopsided
sodalite heart... I feel like this would've looked nicer with a thicker piece to work with, idk it's just kinda thin and terrible
labradorite rectangle thing. I wish I had a photo of the original piece this came from because it was a huge ugly chunk with one tiny section of flash, which I then carved into this
same origin stone as the previous one, just a small section of purple flash. I guess I wasn't feeling well so I got pretty heavy on the grinder, and I nearly ground away the entire thing... so it's pretty thin now
once more, same origin. I like the stripes on this one. it's meant to be a small cab but I did it in like.. half an hour so it's very very poorly rounded out, oof it looks so rough