We are going on to the right hand side over there in the corner.
And the water is crystal clear.
And it's quite warm as well.
So this is the main area of pebbly Beach,
where I'm gathering some pebbles and hopefully a lot of shells,
to make jewelry sweet
so these are shells that I've collected from the weekend.
and a lot of them are broken like these ones.
Got a lot of fragments and people tend to ignore them or walk past them and not pick them up.
cause they're already broken up. But I like collecting all of them because they are ideal for making jewelries.
All I've done is washed them and also soaked them in Bleach and water for a couple of days.
Now they've been rinsed off and dry. so this one is the best one that I've got.
Which looks like everything is still intact and this one is so there's some degradation going
on in there but still it looks nice the part there and others the bottom is already gone and also the
surface of the top see all those holes compared to this one which should have been that way so
I still gather them even this one so you can see just bits and pieces something that looks
like that so that's the back of it and this one is the back of it that's been polished and then
of course that's the inside also this one has already been grinded off as well and I actually
left a lot of the orange one in there because it's starting to get really thin so I didn't
want to grind through I think these are called turban shells so basically that's what they look
like originally and then as they weather of course they turn to that a lighter color so
something like this when you grind it off or I grinded it off and it came out looking like that
which is very very pretty and then the neck age once it's grinded off fully just the difference
just shows off all the beautiful pearlescent or naca and also this one's got these lightly
bumps on top which look like little pearls all different ones fragment a couple of old ones
and different shells even this ones they all got a nacre on them or they have that pearlescent
look so those ones as well they might look green on the outside but inside when you turn it over
it's got the nacre showing. I've got other bits and pieces like this ones and this ones I think
fragments as well but it's got that nice rounded pattern and this one's doesn't have [ __ ] in them
or doesn't have the purling effect but I still collect them to use for other bits and pieces
this is the reason why I gather shells so I can make unique pieces of jewelry and incorporate
some of the gemstones that we find and that's a peridot and this one is a garnet so just beautiful
the color that piece there came from also this one that one and that one came from an abalone
so this is an intact abalone shell that's ready cleaned and these are broken pieces and I still
gather them or keep them because I'm only after that party so it's similar to this one so you've
got the holes it's ready done and that's where I glued all those pearls there so even this one
was just a broken piece like this as well similar to this but this one doesn't have holes in it so
I haven't processed that one I left it as easy as I'm still have to work on that one and even
pieces like that I gather them but even that one as is if I just grind this a little bit or scrub
it with brush then I can actually put a hole or drill a hole and make it into a pendant ready
maybe put one of these pearls that were actually cut in half so you can see this actually a pearl
bead so that was a whole pearl similar to this these two used to be one and I've cut it in half
therefore I've got two which I can use for this big piece here this is actually a freshwater clam
glue that on to that just randomly and I think that would be beautiful as well so you get the
idea so and this is what I do to the pros that I gather and also this one this is a loop-the-loop
copper wire so with different sizes of the loop or the circles and I've actually made it into a
bail as well that way you got a nice piece or pendant that's quite unique and I've drilled a
hole on one side here to feed the wire through and also a whole Apple so these are pieces that
one can make out or gathering shells and that one is the highlight is of course the peridot
and I actually drilled a hole to that and then also the bail and this one is from the turban
shells and they come up beautiful as well so I still have to make something out of that
or probably cut a couple more pieces this is the reason why I love gathering seashells it's
really an inexpensive way of having materials to use for creating beautiful unique jewelry pieces
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