Natural Curiosities

Victorians were in love with natural history.  And given the age of my shop, I decided to incorporate some natural curiosities.

First I removed the shells from this lovely shell plant.  I positioned them outward to highlight their creatureness.

Then I made use of some of the glass pebbles.  I thought the yellow pebbles had an amber-like quality:

So I made them into amber specimen paperweights.  I shrunk down stock photos and printed them onto photo paper.  Then I glued the pebbles over the images as shown.

Results are below.  The bubbles from the superglue look a bit like amber bubbles.  (That's what I'm going with, anyway.)