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arca pendant

Posted by SARAH CORBETT on December 14, 2011 at 11:59pm
The main pendant is a Huge Arca shell which was one of the wonderous gifts which my secret santa sent today Thanks X ;-) I have suspended it from a lovely venetian antique bead which was gifted to me by Abril , a friend in Marrakech
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  • Toya December 15, 2011 at 12:11am

    Beautiful! I have a bunch of these shell beads. We used to call them "hippo teeth", although that is not really what they are.

  • SARAH CORBETT December 15, 2011 at 12:16am

    Yes Toya, I first knew these as Hippo tooth too, it wasn't until I actually saw on that I realised they were shell!

    S x

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