It started as an effort to clean the shop and ended up making these deer antler pendants.

In some Southwestern Native American cultures was worshipped the Kokopelli, a god of fertility both in childbirth and agriculture. also representing music.  This dancing Kokopelli is appropriately supported on Dreamstone that we collected in the Great Basin Desert.  We visited the Great Basin National Park several years back, but collected the Dreamstone in BLM land (Bureau of Land Management) in an area that is open to rock collecting.  Always collect rock responsibly and respect land boundaries and active mining claims. 

We missed the Hillside Farms craft fair this past weekend as I was ill.  Sorry if we missed you.  This coming weekend we will be in Indio for the International Tamale Festival.  Hope to see you there.

A slow, steady drip, over hundreds, to thousands of years causes a stalactite to form on the ceiling of a cave.  By taking the cross section of a stalactite from a cave within the Mojave Desert, these pendants are striking with their swirls and earth tone shades.  We recently “sliced” the stalactite on the diamond saw, then shaped, sanded and polished each piece.  We hope you like them.