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Have a great dentist you want to impress with your handiwork?� Here's a "happy stone" I made for my favorite dentist!

Beach rocks work great, I happen to drop by a rockery once in a while where I pick up Mexican River Rock - and this is an example of it.� It is approximately 5" across and as smooth as a baby's bottom.� It also comes in red and about 3 ranges for size and weight.

You can find all kinds of neat blasting materials at a rockery -- have fun!

Here's a fun little piece, about 2" x 4" that I made over the weekend.� It's getting more into dimensional work.� This is a 1/4" piece of blue glass mounted in front of a 1/4" piece of clear.� The wave tops are frosted just a little on the clear. � The shell is carved in the back side of the blue so you don't see it directly.

It was finally mounted on a small piece of oak with a slot in the center so the glass stands at 90 degrees to the base.� I hot glued a few small polished black beach stones around the base at both sides and it draws quite a few compliments.

When the sun shines through it the shell really stands out nicely.� Hard to photograph, but you get the idea.

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These are all of the pages for now....if there is anything special you would like to see or questions you want to ask ...just ask away!� I enjoy hearing about what others are doing....show-n-tell is one of the joys of glass carving!