From one of my beading classes

This is a set I made in a class recently -- I just adore the stuff, and I am keeping it. I forsee making more of these though! The shell is paua(abalone, in other parts of the worlld, I think), which is normally blues, greens and purples (you can see a piece of shell that is the normal colour on one of the pieces in the bracelet). The pieces I chose though are from the piece of the shell where the fish glues itself down, and are kind of weird looking -- and the colours are much more subtle.