My big mabe' is finally ready to present to the "world," I believe. (Or at least any one who's interested...) I have taken GemGeeks advice and given it a name, The Cascadia Moon. This mabe' is made from a natural, wild-grown, abalone blister-pearl. I also decided to go a bit further with this one and covered the back with an intarsia-like arrangement of semi-precious gem materials including: abalone shell, gold lip MOP, white MOP, charoite, lapis lazuli, "strawberry" quartz, malachite, black obsidian and velvet obsidian. What are your opinions of this? There's a bit too much glare in the photo's as well as too much yellow because of the light used, but I will take time to set up conditions for some better photo's soon. I was just a bit anxious to show it off. Let me know what you think.
Oh yes--it is a double. I almost forget about the lower one when I see the big pearl.
Regards
J Marcus
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