Sunday's necklace horn coral

polished horn coral, wood, sterling and copper

Very strange rock

Dancing Bryozoan

new necklace

I am satisfied with this.  The stone is confederate glass with a bit of the iron that didn't get smelted out showing.  I wrapped it with sterling and put a metal chain with it.  The stone on the right is a septarian nodule I picked up on the beach in Michigan.  Love the pattern which looks like a woman with her arms upraised.  

Monday's cabbing

Confederate glass, wonderstone, fossil coral from Michigan, tree agate.
These cabs are for sale, just ask.

Michigan bracelet

Bracelet made from an old bracelet I took apart and stones I picked up on the beaches in Michigan and a piece of blue Confederate glass.  I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Petoskey

Petoskey with imperfect centers

fossilized coral, Hexagonaria percarinata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petoskey_stone

Faux Bone

Picked this up on a beach on the sunrise side of Michigan.  It was one of the first beaches we visited and I thought it might be some sort of coral because of the covering.  Then, I was sure it was a dinosaur bone, it even has a crack running down the back and if you look closely on the left side, you can see what look like gnaw marks.  But I hit the end with a rock grinder, and, alas, it did not "bleed" red like dino bone and I saw no evidence of structure.  So probably a rock that was covered with some sort of marine life at one time.  But the shape....

Michigan

You never know what you will find where or what adventure lies around.  It's what makes life interesting.  I found this today at a Humane Society Thrift store in North Carolina.  Just me and the dog, but we enjoyed our day.

Last of Summer, First of September

last of Summer, first of September ----- Cabbed, well, the upper left one is not finished, rocks picked up on the generous beaches of Michigan.  All the ones at the right contain fossils, the smallest one show a coral.  I'm not sure what the two middle dark ones show.  Bits of this an that, I'm sure.  Iron, I know which showed silvery, but "rusted" quickly.  If you look closely on the lower right edge of the cream colored one, you may see a trilobite.

I think the reddish one on the left is Mary Ellen Jasper, but that has yet to be confirmed.