thanks Mel now if you've ever found
shark teeth at the beach it can be a
once-in-a-lifetime fine but our next
guest makes it makes a living out of it
so joining me now is Kristen white cross
the owner of fossilized in Florida calm
and all these you know arts pieces that
you've made out of shark's teeth are
incredible first I want to know where
that do you find them all I actually go
digging in the middle of the state and
all the fresh water rivers and creeks so
fresh water creeks and rivers a lot of
people think shark teeth Beach yes is
that something you knew or something you
found out later on well my best friend
Steven told me about it in the middle of
the state where you can go and under
millions of years ago it was all under
ocean water and after their time it
changed and the land masses changed it
all became freshwater so it's like
digging on the bottom of the ocean
millions of years ago that's awesome so
what got you interested in finding these
shark's teeth and then creating art out
of them well out of my obsession with
mermaids I decided one day I was like
wouldn't it be cool to make a shock
toothed mermaid so I decided to make one
and that was my first creation and it
took off from there that's incredible so
let's explain some of the pieces you
have right here because these are not
the little shark's teeth that were used
to sing at the beach these are huge some
of them yeah weighing very heavy so
explain some of these pieces here I see
you have a pineapple over there you have
some necklaces as well yes these are
some of the teeth I find the smaller
teeth those are mostly bull shocks with
the pineapple and the palm tree and then
I use sea glass for the fern from
gorgeous and a pineapple that's awesome
and some of the necklaces and the
bracelets that you have I see right here
explain some of the creativity and how
you have motivation to create some of
these pieces well I always think of what
you know the people would like I try to
match the shock tooth with the charm and
you know the different sea colors I try
to incorporate in them that's incredible
I love these these are so gorgeous a lot
of people think shark teeth guys jewelry
it's not Larry I also want to point out
to the right we are huge Jags fans and
this is an incredible piece right here
if we can zoom into this Jaguars poster
so you have several shark teeth in this
whole Argus right mm-hmm they were all
shocked too you can see glass so how
long did it take you to create something
like this this took me if I put all the
time together about a week Wow yes so
what made you come up with the idea of
making like you know the Jags well I met
my friend Lance on his website the Vasa
loominatee calm and he saw some of my
artwork and he said you know he's a huge
Jags fan and he thought it would be a
good idea to make a piece for the owner
of the Jags because he's done so much
for the community so we wanted to
present him with a piece so we
collaborated on it I did the artwork and
Lance did all the framing and the
pictures how does he unique especially
being in Florida you know I think that's
something really cool to bring football
in and the beach together and yeah got
that so I'm seeing right here on the
table if we can zoom in here a lot of
the shark's teeth are huge and what's
the largest or heaviest shark tooth
you've ever found it would be that one
it's five inches long this one right
here five inches long that's incredible
you know how do you feel when you
stumble upon something like this a very
excited I use words I shouldn't I mean I
can imagine finding something like this
you know in a river or a pond yeah so do
you ever do some research to find out
what kind of sharks these come from or
how old they are we do that on his
website it's like a community for all
fossil hunters you know if you're not
sure of something you can upload the
picture and you know we have the experts
telling us you know what they are and
stuff well thank you so much for joining
us of course if you want some more
information on Kristen's work are some
of the jewelry pieces for sale yeah
everything's for sale everything's for
sale so you can go to fossilized in
Florida calm she has all of the
information there on how you can buy any
of these art pieces or some jewelry and
of course thank you so much for joining
thank you
having me we'll be right back
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