When I found these drusy pendants in Tucson I bought all the high quality ones I could get my hands on. I knew these would be a great new wire wrap material for pendants. Most of them are light weight, nice sized ranging from 25mm to 50mm in diameter, they will be a challenge to wire with all the different angles to them and trying not to break any of the crystals or drusy sections.
They are the most beautiful pendants I have seen in a long time. The drusy has so much sparkle and the colors just radiate in the light. The material is lavender quartz drusy, black amethyst. and a couple of small amethyst pieces. Watch for these little ones to show up in the future as single pendants and pendant incorporated into necklaces.
These Moroccan fossils were a find in Tucson this year; I did a little price bartering in purchasing them, which was a lot of fun! They are all high quality fossils; the mixed freestanding statue of Ammonites/Orthoceras fossils are highly polished on the front with a matte finished on the backside. Each of these shows a lot of details on and around the fossils; the black/white statue has several smaller pieces of orthoceras fossils among the larger fossils, which is hard to come by. The single standing statue of orthoceras have multiple fossils and are smaller, but I was also able to barter for a really tall (and heavy) larger statue containing many of these fossils.
During my trip I was able to get quite a bit of Trilobite fossils and to get these high quality real fossils is very pricy. I am excited to bring these and several more in different sizes to my customers (per their request!) this year. The best find was the large plate with 2 large individual trilobites in very good condition and showing much detail, this was quite a find and I was excited to get this new treasure!
Here's a little about each of these fossils....some of them will be listed in the coming weeks on our website for sale and others will be available at our Spring shows in the next few months. Something new this year, I was able to find some really nice metal stands for r the fossils and minerals that are not free-standing. They are pictured here with a few of the fossils and will be available as part of the purchase with the fossil or mineral.
Ammonites (pictured mixed with orthoceras fossils; top left & bottom left) are an extinct subclass of cephalopods, whose present-day descendants include the octopus, squid and nautilus. Ammonites lived from approximately 400 to 65 million years ago (late Cretaceous). Their well-preserved fossilized shells are found today, and are often cut and polished.
Orthoceras fossils (pictured top right) are squid fossils that lived in shells, an ancient mollusk whose fossil shells are found and polished in the Sahara Desert of Morocco. In the Devonian geologic period, some 350 million years ago, these ocean dwellers, reaching a length of up to 6 feet, swam in an ocean which covered the area. After death, their shells weer preserved in the black marble where they are found today. They moved by ejecting water through an opening and by moving their tentacles. The tentacles caught food while their parrot-shaped beaks cut the food up.
Trilobite (pictured middle & bottom right) or Proteus Granulosus are similar to the horseshoe crab, Trilobites – meaning 3 lobes – lived from 550 to 200 million years ago in the Cambrian, Paleozonic, and Devonian seas. There are hundreds of species of Trilobites, but they are most closely related to the chelicerates, which include the horseshoe crabs and spiders. They are now all extinct, but their fossil remains are found in many places in the U.S and worldwide. Some, in the Canadian Rockies, have been found as large as 2 ½ feet in length.
This is a great find from my Tucson trip this year and with geodes, you never really know what you are going to get until you crack them open. And these set of 5 bookends are no exception when it comes to high quality and stunning beauty. When I found these bookends I was hooked by their brilliant colors and striking drusy centers. They are all very heavy and solid, highly polished on three sides with the backside left in the rough.
Each one is unique in color and the way they have been cut. It took a large diamond tip saw blade to cut these magnificent treasures. The colors of each range of sunsets to earthy tones and skylines. You have rusty orange with hues of cream, another in creamy white with hues of gray, a striking changes of blues, and the other two are in light colors of beige and hues of very light pale pink.
What I think makes these bookends so unique and stunning is the drusy centers. Each center is a complimentary color to the agate, some are in a dark colors and others more of a pale. They all are so full of sparkle and really catch the light, a perfect compliment against the very high polish of these geode agates colors. The pictures really do not do these the justice of their beauty.
When I found these drusy pendants in Tucson I bought all the high quality ones I could get my hands on. I knew these would be a great new wire wrap material for pendants. Most of them are light weight, nice sized ranging from 25mm to 50mm in diameter, they will be a challenge to wire with all the different angles to them and trying not to break any of the crystals or drusy sections.
They are the most beautiful pendants I have seen in a long time. The drusy has so much sparkle and the colors just radiate in the light. The material is lavender quartz drusy, black amethyst. and a couple of small amethyst pieces. Watch for these little ones to show up in the future as single pendants and pendant incorporated into necklaces.
These Moroccan fossils were a find in Tucson this year; I did a little price bartering in purchasing them, which was a lot of fun! They are all high quality fossils; the mixed freestanding statue of Ammonites/Orthoceras fossils are highly polished on the front with a matte finished on the backside. Each of these shows a lot of details on and around the fossils; the black/white statue has several smaller pieces of orthoceras fossils among the larger fossils, which is hard to come by. The single standing statue of orthoceras have multiple fossils and are smaller, but I was also able to barter for a really tall (and heavy) larger statue containing many of these fossils.
During my trip I was able to get quite a bit of Trilobite fossils and to get these high quality real fossils is very pricy. I am excited to bring these and several more in different sizes to my customers (per their request!) this year. The best find was the large plate with 2 large individual trilobites in very good condition and showing much detail, this was quite a find and I was excited to get this new treasure!
Here's a little about each of these fossils....some of them will be listed in the coming weeks on our website for sale and others will be available at our Spring shows in the next few months. Something new this year, I was able to find some really nice metal stands for r the fossils and minerals that are not free-standing. They are pictured here with a few of the fossils and will be available as part of the purchase with the fossil or mineral.
Ammonites (pictured mixed with orthoceras fossils; top left & bottom left) are an extinct subclass of cephalopods, whose present-day descendants include the octopus, squid and nautilus. Ammonites lived from approximately 400 to 65 million years ago (late Cretaceous). Their well-preserved fossilized shells are found today, and are often cut and polished.
Orthoceras fossils (pictured top right) are squid fossils that lived in shells, an ancient mollusk whose fossil shells are found and polished in the Sahara Desert of Morocco. In the Devonian geologic period, some 350 million years ago, these ocean dwellers, reaching a length of up to 6 feet, swam in an ocean which covered the area. After death, their shells weer preserved in the black marble where they are found today. They moved by ejecting water through an opening and by moving their tentacles. The tentacles caught food while their parrot-shaped beaks cut the food up.
Trilobite (pictured middle & bottom right) or Proteus Granulosus are similar to the horseshoe crab, Trilobites – meaning 3 lobes – lived from 550 to 200 million years ago in the Cambrian, Paleozonic, and Devonian seas. There are hundreds of species of Trilobites, but they are most closely related to the chelicerates, which include the horseshoe crabs and spiders. They are now all extinct, but their fossil remains are found in many places in the U.S and worldwide. Some, in the Canadian Rockies, have been found as large as 2 ½ feet in length.
This is a great find from my Tucson trip this year and with geodes, you never really know what you are going to get until you crack them open. And these set of 5 bookends are no exception when it comes to high quality and stunning beauty. When I found these bookends I was hooked by their brilliant colors and striking drusy centers. They are all very heavy and solid, highly polished on three sides with the backside left in the rough.
Each one is unique in color and the way they have been cut. It took a large diamond tip saw blade to cut these magnificent treasures. The colors of each range of sunsets to earthy tones and skylines. You have rusty orange with hues of cream, another in creamy white with hues of gray, a striking changes of blues, and the other two are in light colors of beige and hues of very light pale pink.
What I think makes these bookends so unique and stunning is the drusy centers. Each center is a complimentary color to the agate, some are in a dark colors and others more of a pale. They all are so full of sparkle and really catch the light, a perfect compliment against the very high polish of these geode agates colors. The pictures really do not do these the justice of their beauty.
