Despite living in Alpena for a few years, and visiting when I was little, I do not remember going beachcombing. Hannah and Sophie turned out to be experts, and collected fossils, and some very artistic looking driftwood. One driftwood piece appears to be a shark or a marlin. Thanks to the girls, I now know about the Petoskey Stone, a honeycombed fossil of coral over 350 million years old. Turns out there is also a legend that claims the honeycombs are really captured sun rays. I got to wondering? How do you turn a fossil into a bead? After a lot of searching, I have no specific answers. I did stop by Bella Beads to ask, and I think Hannah and I will be learning the Peyote stitch at a Saturday class. (They don't drill holes).
I didn't have to search long to find out that the internet is a thriving marketplace for fossils, and even nature created art. I found some formidable driftwood sculptures by Matt Torrens. For the person who has everything, you may want to take a journey into Bizarre Bids. com Weirdauctions.com and Strangebids.com . There are some items you didn't know money could buy.
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