rubber grapes, glass beads & filament, glass....see this piece in progress

vintage glass, plastic from a cabbage patch kid shoe

polymer clay, vintage button, found garnet...my starbucks partner-in-crime (also my neighbor) kati surprised me one day with a little bag filled with beautiful raw garnets. i love them...the geometric edges and intense reddish black color. what a treat!! some are loose and some are still comfortably positioned on there matrix stone. there was talk of her folks finding them in either colorado or nevada. well, i did some research on "found garnets" in nevada and i learned of garnet hill

sounds like a place to put on the list :O)