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Opals-On-Black .... About Us !




Peter down an opal mine
Welcome .... my name is Peter, and  my partner on this Opal journey is Barbara (Barb) and we live in the beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland township of Maleny in Queensland, Australia.

Together we make up the team of Opals-On-Black !

Opal laid its magic on me at a very early age with a schoolfriend giving me a tiny piece of "Maleny opal", this vision of living color left me wholly mesmerised by its beauty!

After that, Opal became the first love of my life !

Fortunately for me, my father taught me the basics of opal cutting and polishing in my teenage years and over time, I became more fully  involved with  the fascinating world of opal and all that it entailed. 

It was to be an expensive and rocky road to developing my own individual opal skills and learning the many and varied aspects of opal!

However,  it was from wanting to create a different type of opal jewellery other than that encased in gold or silver etc., that eventually  led me into working with different mediums which would highlight more of the natural colour play and vibrancy of the opal itself.



Opal for  me is a living vibrant Gemstone  that "speaks" to me when I am working with it. Sometimes showing me exactly  how it wants to display itself.  How it wants to present itself to the world....!

Creating and producing our opal jewelry is an intense and lengthy process but, it is a fulfilling one!

There is enormous pleasure in finishing an item and launching it "out into the world"!

"Opals On Black" was created from this desire and my passion for opal.


Alongside of our Opals-On-Black & Boulder Matrix Jewelry, we have also developed our own diverse range of individually created and unique Opal Beads, using only genuine natural Australian Opal.

These are definitely beads with a difference ideal for the artisan jeweller/beader or professional jeweller.

And of course .... our finely calibrated Opal Doublets & Opal Solids as well as our Creative Inlay Opals....

Our aim always is to create & produce top quality opal products that show our Australian Opal in it's best light !







Barb does all the website designing, the computer work, photography,administration and putting together all the extras that are needed for the presentation of our "Opals On Black" products to the world.


She is also an artist working in oils, pastels & acrylic and of course... photography!

Arctic Owl Oil Painting








We would like to share with you some photos of parts of
 Our Australia that we have enjoyed along the way .........







The Story of Our Website ....


Opals are our passion, and when we first started our journey with Opals On Black,  we had no idea that we would one day build our own website and website business.
 

We had  been developing and building our Opal business over a period of time, and we started  to market it by  going out and  introducing ourselves to different jewellery retailers and people in different areas. 

However,  this was a localised thing and, although successful, we started to have dreams of  presenting our Opals-On-Black products out onto the world market! 

Eventually we decided that we would just have to "take control of our  destiny" and  try this computer and  internet thing....!  It seemed the only way to go if we wanted to build a global website business.


This is how we did it....Building A Website Business






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