Well, I’m not really but my university doings would have suggested otherwise. Now, from the following images you tell me what it looks like?

So suspicious, right?

In truth the powdery substance is, I can only assume, bits of the material used in the casting process. The grey and, apparently, straw-ish looking thing is my escapement file. It’s what I had to use the poke the powder out.

Woo, my brooch is currently in queue for being set. I have pictures of the stones but the photos are bad quality so I haven’t put pictures up.

This post has won an Annie Award for being the most pointless.

[edit @23:03] Oh and many thanks goes to Bali for supplying the stones. Now, if only I remembered the names of the gemstones. Let’s see…

• Pink sapphire
• Green emerald
• Tourmaline (greens and orange/yellows)

Gah, I can’t remember the others – that’ll bug me until no end. I’ll go find them out, my manager will know.

Thanks should also go out to Alan, who is going to set my stone despite have tons of other repairs to do. A final special thank you goes to my manager, Andrew for sponsoring the stones (if it weren’t for him the brooch would still be bare, heh). Thank you all very much!

Okay, this is beginning to sound like an award speech. Annie out. [/edit]