A moon-shaped light, from Goodwill. Bought to entertain the kids. I had a time finding a place to hang it where the youngest couldn't reach the cord, so it's at an awkward angle. Don't know whether it's waxing or waning like that. Still, it does its job.
Glass bottle, pewter dish and assorted stones. Technically, more "junk shop" finds than charity shop or dollar store, but pretty close. The bottle was filled with garnets (those dark colored stones in the pic - I tried to photograph them to show their red color, but no dice) a few topaz, quartz, amethysts, etc. The peridots and fluorites & other unidentified stones I scrounged from similar shops at other times.
The large green fluorite and the scarab are a couple of my prized possesions. I once saw a daytime meteor that was the same color as the fluorite stone, and it makes a handy guide to describe it - "it was like
this, but on fire! With streaming silver flames!"
