This is a wonderful collection of treasures: real sea urchins, vintage troca shell whistle buttons, fresh water pearls, jade charms, raku buttons, bronze charms from Big Sur, a dyed gourd, shell flowers.....
The pattern from this piece is "Entwined Treasures", with a few ribbon flowers added in for color. The beads are stitched around the buttons and charms with free form peyote.
The beads used were new and vintage glass seed beads; pearls; glass charms; brown muscle shell and semi precious beads.
The pattern for the bracelet is the "Pea Pod". Each little canoe is individually snitched and stuffed with glass beads or fresh water pearls.
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