I love Citizen Eco-Drive watches, too.  They are the only watch I wear. I now have 3.  I especially like the ones with mother-of-pearl faces.  I've never had one malfunction, and now some of mine are quite a few years old.  I always store them in an open dish so they get the light they need; people often make the mistake of storing them in a closed jewelry box & then complain about them stopping.  I think they are the closest thing to perpetual motion machines.  I love that I don't have to worry about batteries. I would like to see Citizen further expand the number of styles.

hahaha, he is a little worse for wear now i think. he likes the jewelry for investments though, and he had no problem shelling out the dough for my engagement ring. man of my dreams in so many ways. 

the bigun.  it is so hard to photograph opals.

the baby of the bunch

cutiepie

oops, same pic twice, my bad. this one is called Stripey.

last ones, i tried to capture the fire as much as possible.

I love how much character those opals have!  I have always wanted one but I have never found one that I really love.  

I would make a bracelet our of all of those, except I would probably bang them around to much so maybe a necklace of some sorts?  I would bezel each one and put them in size order as best as possible and have a little detail going on with the bezel.  Maybe some kind of swirl pattern to mimic the patterns in the opals themselves?  

ETA: That shot of all of them together reminds me of a solar system!  So cool!

Hmmm.  I like the idea of using them in bezels, which might help keep them safe, but as many of these stones could qualify as polished rough, I'm thinking rather than an opals by the yard style, using irregular and semi polished beads of lapis, malachite, rock crystal and quartz, or whatever floats your boat, might make for a truly breathtaking necklace using the opals as focal points.  I'll bet your sister could come up wikth some good ideas, Allison.  She does lovely bead work, although the beads I'm thinking of would be significantly larger than the rubies she used.

Cool collection Allison!  Keep sharing!   

Love them, love them, LOVE THEM!

Sorry I'm late to the party...
COOL stuff Allison- thanks so much for sharing!!!