Really good opal jewelry is surprisingly difficult to find. Really good uplifting opal jewelry designed by a devotee is even harder to find, but we've done it! Tom Whitaker lives in Southern California and has loved opal all his life. Ten years ago, he decided to manifest his love and create beautiful jewelry.
This exquisite Australian Opal Pendant is set in solid Sterling silver, and shines with all the colors of the rainbow. It measures 7/8 inches in diameter and comes with a fine 18 inch silver chain.
Australian opal is known to have extraordinary color and quality. To make sure that only the finest opal is used, Tom travels himself to small mining camps beyond the middle-of-nowhere in Australia, to search for quality opal and good prices. Crikey mate!
Update - December 2010. We are really sorry to tell you that Tom has closed his opal jewelry business and so we only have a few of these lovely pieces left. After they are sold they will be discontinued - and some day become rare antiques!We'll let Tom explain how he obtains such beautiful opal at affordable prices - he says,
"I was really surprised to discover that stores selling quality Australian opal at reasonable prices were practically non-existent. Even all of the jewelry-sections of department chain stores I visited only sold "imitation" laboratory created opal, and that type of "synthetic opal" pales in comparison to "natural, real opal." Not only were the brilliant colors of real, vibrantly-colored Australian opal difficult to find, but on the rare occasion when I did find "quality opal" products, the prices were too high. And so was born the idea for this line of "affordable, quality opal jewelry."" The three pieces of opal jewelry that we offer were inspired by The Court of all Religions at Self-Realization Fellowship's Lake Shrine. Other designs in this series will be forthcoming, and we will include them here as soon as they are available.
