Carlie finished this necklace a few weeks ago, it's the latest in a series that she has created over many years. It's actually the first in this series for a number of years. The series started 25 or 30 years ago when a good friend of hers gave her an interesting coat button and she decided to make a necklace with it. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of that one as I wasn't consistently taking pictures of much of our jewelry work at that time. I only captured images of a few pieces a year to use as part of our applications to art fairs. Thousands of pieces in those early years escaped the camera. This saddens me. Now I basically take pictures of every piece that we make. I have a photo shooting area that is always set up and ready to go which makes it fairly easy. I'm still learning but i manage to get fairly good images of most pieces. I'm always excited when a customer wears an old piece to one of our shows and I'm able to capture an image of it there. This piece has a mother of pearl button set in a bezel with a copper dome covering the hoes in it. It was in a collection of various pieces of mother of pearl that I've collected over many years of wandering flea markets and yard sales. The necklace is made of silver, copper, gold and brass. Under the pearl are a fresh water pearl and a grey moonstone, grey moonstones also in the two necklace links at the top. The button is about an inch and a half in diameter. Below is a collage of other jewels that are in this series or were inspired by the series. I'm still looking for others in my files. My photography has gotten better since I took these.