Fabric bracelets with silver beads

The silver beads are made by pushing gum nuts into molten silver.

Streaky Bay dunes

Camped in the sand dunes near Streaky Bay I collected what I found around our camp site: rocks, shells, shark eggs and calcified plant roots (rhyzolith). I love the combination of the natural material with glass beads. The beads I got from a glass bead factory on our trip to the Czech Republic in August. The finding is a ring and t-bar catch made from rhizolth and silver.

I couldn't find anything on whether these formations are protected - doubt it though, because they are everywhere and not particularly old. They only form under certain conditions and I was just lucky to find them at Streaky.

Bat's wing coral tree

In April Barbara came visiting us on Lucy Creek Station. One afternoon we went for a drive and found the "bean trees" Lori had told us about. The beans are amazing, shiny red with a quite hard surface. I promised to make a necklace for Barbara - finished just in time for Christmas (or her birthday, haven't quite decided yet)

The image of the flowers I took in November - when we left the station.

Dots

I had started these earrings a while ago in Alice in our caravan - had in mind coins, bracteates (thin pieces of metal, worn as jewellery from the 4th/5th century on). A few weeks ago I enameled them.