Back from Baltimore and Recovering

[laurieopal]

I'm back, I had a marvelous time and I'll be posting some of the commissions I brought to folks there.

The pendant below us 2 cranes with red heads (rubies) from Hokkaido in Japan. They are considered very special there, and were going extinct until folks started feeding them as a regular practice. Bayla Fine saw them in a documentary and commissioned the pendant. I was really grateful she suggested them. They were a lot of work carving and very satisfying to make.

Please click on the picture to open it up. The expanded photo is *much* better.


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I'll post more later this week.