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Opals are extremely fragile and can only be worked in certain ways. I'm sure there is someone who can create something different, but the price would be as steep as the stone is fragile and for a stone that is very brittle and will "shatter" if cold then bumped, it's just not cost effective for traditional jewelers, who buy most everything from catalogs, to be creative.
Most opals are duplets (means they have crystal quartz above them so they won't shatter). There is also triplets where the put an onyx or jet underneath to make the opal appear as a "black" opal and add some bucks to that. While the idea works, a true black opal is still much more beautiful.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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