Colour Feast continues: Green man-made and natural Crystals

It is time to continue the colour series: GREEN. I want you to drool over these lovely green colours that nature has created in crystals and also some man-made crystals which can be equally inspirational. These green shades make me want to take my brushes immediately and go to the easel to create something with these shades or imagine a lake, hidden deep in the forests, with waters just as these greens - wouldn't it be devine to dive into those?

(image sources:

diamondfireglass.com/crystals, minedirect.com
worldofrockhounds.com,blog.hmns.org
multiaxes.net, roses-and-teacups.com
mineralman.net, everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com
entertainment.webshots.com, lh6.ggpht.com
arkadiancollection.com, crystal-treasure.com
marinmineral.com, ncpedia.org
mysticmerchant.com, dave.ucsc.edu
marblekingusa.com, glasscaress.com
triz-beadingmania.blogspot.com)

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The Purple Feast continues - natural and man-made Crystals

I have a great love for all sorts of crystals - be it real ones from the mineral section or glass. Like a kid I am somehow fascinated by everything that is transparent and actually lives from light. And so the idea was born to do some research on purple crystals etc. 

This is what I found - a lovely collection of transparent and shiny little things in various shades of purple - which I find could be highly inspirational for any creative person:

(images are from following websites: 

owall.net, powerofthecrystals.com, witchcraft-supplies.com, radaris.com, flickr.com, 

aliexpress.com, dazzlingdecorhire.com.au, ioffer.com, shoponline2011.com, studiosoft.it, traderscity.com, tradeindia.com, theblackcatcloset.com, skywalker.cochise.edu, 

bestcrystals.com, mineralminers.com, crystal-treasure.com, mysticmerchant.com, 

fany.savina.net, corunduminium.com, marinmineral.com, taosinstituteforglassarts.org)

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