Birdseye maple french supported spindle with turquoise inlay

Hi.  This blog is for Miss Lucy P's spindles.  I am going to try to post a spindle a day.  That means I will have to make a spindle a day so this will keep me motivated. 
The first spindle is one I actually made yesterday.  Oh well.  I do have another for today but it isn't quite done yet so I will put it on tomorrow
This spindle is an experimental one.  It is a French style supported spindle with a swarovski crystal in the tip.  I like the crystal tips because they sparkle and don't wear down. 
I made the inlay by crushing up some of my old turquoise beads.  When I was a kid I loved to crush rocks.  My parents should have given up on trying to make me into a Doctor.  I mean, I wanted to work like Fred Flintstone did at a gravel pit.  I used to set up a rock crushing station on a big flat granite boulder and I just loved all the weird colors that came out of the rocks.  This was when I was 4 or 5.  When I got a bit older I would collect rocks and then try to figure out what kind they were.  I did this with mushrooms too LOL. 
Anyway, I have a lot of beads and stones around as I am a bit of a pack rat too.

Here is a picture of todays daily spindle.  Birdseye maple with a nice old arizona turquoise inlay.  Probably not sleeping beauty, but somewhere around there.  Aurora borealis swarovski crystal in the tip.  Tomorrow will be another French spindle.  We also make tibetan, russian and top whorl.