Designing around the cabochons

While my work is taking up just about all of my time, I've been using the spare half hour here and there to work on making components for earrings and pendants.  My favorite part of the design process is this step (picture below) where I lay out all the components and try to decide which cabochon to set where.  It's like candy, except, of course, you should not eat your jewelry.

The Cabochons are Here, pt. 2

The rest of the cabochons showed up and they're mostly red and blue so I took a sort of purply patriotic photo of them for you.  I've got amethyst, garnet, swiss blue topaz and turquoise.  Yeah, I'll be at my jewelry bench.  Or at least dreaming of it.

The Cabochons Are Here!!

Okay, so only one of the two orders has arrived so far, but here are some of the pretty cabochons that came my way.  I'm really loving the peridot and the peach moonstone.  There's also some onyx, black star diopside, nephrite jade, moonstone, blue lace agate. lab created ruby and lab created sapphire in this picture.  Oh, the things I want to make.