More Amber

I was especially pleased with the amber specimen paperweights that I made for the Goreyosity Shop.  And since I still had the supplies, I decided to make more.

These will fit well with the crustacean pictures.  It's starting to look like a museum!

For Bob and Zilla: The Great A'Tuin

During the kickoff I found a great turtle doorknob that I wanted to somehow incorporate. I chose it out of loyalty to our pet tortoise Zilla.

And for Bob, I turned it into a Discworld tribute.  Terry Pratchett's Discworld is Bob's favorite book series, and features a flat world delicately supported by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle. The turtle is called the Great A'Tuin, shown here (credit: Discworld site):

The hardest part was actually cleaning the turtle.  Megan removed most of the grime by soaking it in Sprite.  (Thank you, Megan!)

I found some small elephant beads from Etsy, and used one of the larger glass pebbles from the kickoff for the disc.

I glued everything together with epoxy.  Results are below!

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.)