Post Some of Your Favorite Shiney Things!

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Here is one of my favs rose quartz crystal which is pretty and shiney

As a kid I loved shiny/sparkly rocks, stones and crystals. I was utterly fascinated with them and wanted them ALL! I liked to feel them. Marbles too, but not the boring ones...there had to be something special about them. My dad always found really awesome ones for me.

Running water, like from a faucet, or in nature. Especially when the light is refracting. I like mirrors too. Glitter. I like those cocktail toothpicks with frilly decorative colored cellophane tops.


Oh - I think my very favorite: Ice fog!

my meteorite,



the baseball card in my avatar,

coins

a duck

Shoes.

When I was younger I used to love collecting precious stones, I accumalated a huge great pile of shiny crap which I through out the second I discovered music.

I would but I seem hopeless at figuring out the best way to photograph gemstones... I have tried several times to capture my labradorite and my nuummit, but never seem to be able to get the lighting right. I also love those fibreoptic trees and anything that glitters, plus opal...fire opal, especially the blue and green tones.

Richard, Whilst at the Univeristy this morning I looked at the geology exhibit. I found the sparkliest stone ever! From the Sulfide family, Xm Zn, where X = metallic element, Z = nonmetallic. This particular specimen was silvery/goldish and ~ > 25 cm in diameter with crystalline structure very apparent: Chalcopyrite, CuFeS2. Found in Alaska - very impressive. Also common here: Marcasite, FeS2. (And, of course, Ag).

The rose quartz and meteorite rock. I love minerals - and collect all types - like my boji stones and phantom crystal muchly.

As a kid I loved LINKS - does anyone remember them from the 60's - you could get them in gumball machines - 10 for a dime. They were basically oval clear plastic links like miniature shower curtain rings - they came in beautiful colors of the rainbow and you made necklaces out of the strings. Pretty cool. Fav color - grape purple.

I loved collecting nuts and bolts and screws and such. My room started looking like a hardware store after a while. I know I still do it today, and mum laughs at me every time I clean out my pockets cause theres always something shiny/glittery/sparkley.

I also love those little mettalic confettis! I find them at the casinos every time I go to the strip for whatever reason. Oh, and rocks, any colour any size, it doesn't seem to matter. I have an entire box of them in my room, I like to get them as souviners of trips I've taken. Movers were a bit mad when I told them the box labeled rocks really had rocks in it though.

I took a class in pewter casting a couple of weeks ago, and here's what I made, including the mold.