simple pleasure « Crystal Writes A Blog

Real Oil-Cell Kaleidoscopes

Collage of Kaleidoscopes by Crystal A Murray (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

What’s a simple pleasure in life that brings you joy?

The simplest pleasure is taking my oil-cell kaleidoscope out into the sunshine and just becoming lost in the beauty of light shining through dichroic glass. The largest image is from my kaleidoscope by Shelley Knapp, and the smaller ones are from taking that same image to Wombo Dream AI and designing similar images without the natural flaws.

I have a lot of them from my original oil kaleidoscope on my Flickr site where you can view the album with the Knapp kaleidoscopes and see the beautiful details. And below, I’ll share my YouTube video of the scope in action.

Inside My Kaleidoscope; 3 Minutes of Beautiful Twists & Turns

I may come back and add a few more from different kaleidoscopes when I’ve edited them, so save this post.

May 18, 2026 Posted by Crystal A Murray (aka CrystalWriter) | AI Image Creations, by Day One, Collaged, Creativity, Kaleidoscopic, Photo Studio Pro app, Photography, Prompts, Wombo Dream | collage, colorful, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2766, kaleidoscope, photo, simple pleasure, video | Leave a comment

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Crystal is, like her name, multi-faceted. She can even write about herself in third person and only feel a little awkward about it. 🙂 She loves to write; she loves kaleidoscopes, fractals, and all things colorful; she loves her husband, her family, and her feline furkids; and mostly she loves Yahveh Almighty, her Creator. She believes her creative mind is in her DNA from Him, and she believes He sees His creations as she sees the images inside a kaleidoscope–all different yet all beautiful and most beautiful when light (His light) shines through them.