Tiny fossils I've collected to use in making science-themed jewelry. These are from the Devonian, 400 million years ago, across time, and now, sitting here in the palm of my hand.

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Had a house fire in my kitchen 10 years ago and one of the cupboards that burned had my grandmother's Blue Willow dishes in it. I saved some of the shards, knowing I would do something with them one day...

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Chazy Landing, New York looking across Lake Champlain at Isle La Motte, Vermont at sunrise.

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And more micros, in the palm of my hand. They're just amazing to me.

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Sky trilobite. EXTREMELY rare.

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Giant puffball my son's found at our cottage in far north, New York.

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My index finger and thumb. And an incredible crinoid I filtered out of the clay and gravel after 400 million years.

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For the previous post of the spiked crinoid. I actually hunt micro crinoid fossils to make jewelry with.

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Excellently terrifying way to sell your handmade jewelry.

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I hunt microfossils @ Penn Dixie Fossil Park near Buffalo, to make jewelry. I've done this for a couple of years. Last time, I simply used a dust pan & whisk broom & swept the surface where the rain water washes down off the piles of rocks, 20 lbs. of dirt & gravel. This is my largest pentacrinite.

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Self portrait for college photography class 42 years ago, well before digital.

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I make a lot of jewelry with different techniques, but bead embroidery is my first love. I just can't do bead weaving; too many directions, it stresses me out. My eccentric embroidery is like meditation to me.

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Pendants I made with 400 million year old Devonian fossils I hunted myself.

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Devonian crinoid fossils from Penn Dixie quarry south of Buffalo. I bring home a bucket of dirt and sift away the clay and dust, then pick through with tweezers. Very zen activity.

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My inspiration for becoming a fossil hunter. The right calymene trilobite I found at age 12. Chazy Landing, NY on Lake Champlain. It's about as big as my thumb, the lighter lobes were exposed. The calymene on the left I found about 45 years later, same place. It was completely encased in rock.

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My little sister and I, I'm guessing around 1969, at some Washington D.C. monument or museum, in the MATCHING maxi dresses my mom made for us.

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The stone house in Bloomington, IL that my mother's grandfather from Ireland built after settling there, and the watercolor she did when in her 60s. She's lower left picture, far left, with her 6 sisters.

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