Detcon1: Hello I Must be Going

[laurieopal]

(cross posted on livejournal)

My boxes are mostly packed. The jewelry is finished and ready. It includes this Baltic amber pendant shaped by the sea and then pollished. I got the amber when I was in Finland last year.

Size is about 1.75" and the setting is silver.  The design is a Ginkgo leaf.  About a block from where I live is a street with 22 Ginkgo Trees (Yes, I counted them.)  The design is based on a leaf from one of those trees. The Ginkgo is a living fossil recognizably related to the Ginkgos from the Permian dating back 270 million years. The amber is about 50 million years old so aside from the aesthetics of the design I love the idea that they were contemporary millions of years ago.

 

Ginkgo biloba fossil Eocene leaf from the McAbee, Canada.

The leaf below is a modern one not that's there is much difference.  They turn a stunning golden yellow in the fall.

I've made an astonishing number of new rings that range from Peruvian opal to a fossilized gastropod cabochon.

I need to go back to work but I'll post tomorrow about my Fat Feminism and Fandom panel and my photos in the Art Show.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

1. Oh, that's ginkgo! (I had thought I'd never seen those trees. Huh.)
2. The pendant is beautiful I really like the variations in the amber.
3. It took a couple of readings to fix in mind that you meant "shaped by the sea" rather than "shaped like the sea." Maybe I should not try to parse media in the morning…

[laurieopal]

Thanks. Very glad you liked it. I had to look through about a hundred of the sea shaped ambers to find the small group I chose. And you're right it definitely parses either way. I'm inserting a "by". Personally I can _never_ parse in the morning.