Colored glass, crystals, christmas lights, and iridescence

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That's a beautiful story!! ! My stepdad was a park ranger and one year we had an "old-fashioned Swedish-California Christmas" in a no-frills cabin at Donner Lake near Lake Tahoe. (Site of the Donner Party). It was a kind of a bummer being so far from civilization but we had this weird, spiney tree and we put real, little white candles on it - instead of electric lights. We made popcorn and cranberry garland and read "A Christmas Carol".

I remember those candles against the darkened cabin walls, the snow glowing outside the windows. And the snowlight bouncing off the lake. It was creepy but festive. Wouldn't do it again but I LOVED those Swedish candles.

I have a fascination with lights. I was once at a Carols by Candlelight and I got this ring that lit up with three colours when you pressed it. When you press it again the lights flick on a off. Oooh pretty. Then I kept buying a bunch of colourful lights. I should have some photos of them somewhere.
I think crystals would really fascinate me. I don't have any though. Although I read about them in a book.

sounds purdy.

my wife likes sparkly things, she made her own unscented lotion so she could add sparkles to it (we have alot of allergies to scented products), I like frozen fog, it sparkles in light

I've always been fascinated with ice. I think it's beautiful, especially icicles. Its chemistry also amazes me. I'm still like a little kid- whenever I pass icicles, I have to break them off of the surface they're hanging from and smash them on the ground. And as Beenthere mentioned, I, too, love when snow reflects light off of street lamps and sparkles like diamonds. I love anything that glitters, basically.

I also have always loved gemstones. It was a bigger special interest of mine when I was a kid, but I still love looking at jewelry that has gemstones. I think I also like gemstones because there's a categorization to them: I always have loved how each month has a certain birthstone. I used to have a collection of fake jewels, and I would separate them into type and line them up by birth month, starting with January/garnet and ending with December/blue topaz.
-OddDuckNash99-

I love coloured glass - I love coloured glass objects - anything a bit magical / mystical looking - I have a set of coloured lights in my living room [actually 2 sets now, a string of christmas lights and some little skull lights] a coloured set in my bedroom & lava lamp, lit up globe [map] a mirror ball, some coloured glass chime things etc. However my love of glass does not stretch to include places that over use it in a very harsh way - like shopping malls etc - glass floors, walls, sides to stairs etc, [too much movement and input] that sort of thing I absolutely hate. I'm fascinated looking at flames of a fire. The patterns found in a thin layer of ice / frost are amazing - our truck windows frosted up and had the most amazing patterns on them which any person could not have designed better themselves, I was fascinated with such uniform and symmetrical patterns made by nature that didn't take anyone any amount of painstaking time but just 'happened'! wow! I love it when it is a full moon, late at night and still outside and very frosty and the moonlight catches the frost on the ground and it sparkles like glitter. I used to also have a bit of an obsession with the look of glitter [don't like the touch much at all] [but the over use of it [glitter] in some computer graphics put me off in a way but I still do like the real life stuff, I can't deny!]

All this talk of gems and irridescence has made me realise I need opals in my life.

http://www.opalstrike.com.au/images/62c ... 20opal.jpg

http://www.mandalaopals.com.au/images/black-opal.jpg

http://www.flashopal.com/images/d280/opal%20carving.JPG

http://www.palagems.com/Images/gem_news ... _opal4.jpg

Oh yeah totally! My husband bought me a manufactured opal necklace several months ago that is really pretty opals are great!! !

Also, geodes rock!! (lol pun)
http://www.makasutuessences.demon.co.uk/images/amethyst%20geode.jpg

I definately need more sparklies in my life too. This thread is making me want to run out and buy a bunch of sparkly/colorful things. Keep 'em coming!!

*grins* They are wonderful things, I have a little one of those on my bedside table (well, bedside chair-that-serves-as-a-table). Those shops that sell these geological wonders attract me like a bee to honey. I have to peel myself away, I'd be in there all day, poring over every glittering facet...

Not a geode exactly, but pretttyyyyy
http://www.crystalharmony.co.uk/prodima ... OAMIX1.php

I want to get a peice of pyrite, that stuff is amusing.

How about those glow stick necklace things you get at concerts and amusement parks. I love those! They aren't exactly sparkly but they look so cool! I turn into a 10 year old girl when I play with those.

Ever puncture one and watch the glowy stuff on the ground? Try it! (I don't know the toxicity - but I just assume it is and take precautions). It reminds me of the cartoon radiation on the Simpsons.

I am not heavily into sparkly things, but one of the prettiest sites to me is when it has recently snowed outside, and its night. Thats when it is very still and if there is a moon out, the snow has sort of a bluish glow and the snow crystals sparkle like thousands of tiny diamonds.

Also when it is early, early, in the morning, (about 2-3 am) try looking outside. Many people's lights are out at this time and the stars are truly brilliant if there is a clear nighttime sky. It is incredable.

Coins, colored glass, semi-precious stones, glitter, translucent beads, shiny buttons...Oh yes!

I also like those sprite generators in 3D progams. You can make sparkles, shinys and glitter fall everywhere, like a craft and beading store just exploded!

Whoa. Cool. I used to like spacing out with the visualizations in iTunes. They aren't as cool as they used to be or maybe I don't know where to look.

I love these things, as well. I especially love coloured Christmas lights.

The ones in the default media player you always got with windows are trippy.

Christmas lights and Christmas balls and tinsel are nice.

(This just proves that my future house is going to look like a Las Vegas hooker. )

or as I described it once, like ants with camera's taking a thousand pictures at once [the sparkles being the flashes of the camera!] : )