Every year we travel with my husband’s family to a little lake near Traverse City, Michigan. There we spend a blissful week wading in the lake, staring into the water, and searching for Petoskey stones. This is a much more fun endeavor than you might imagine, because when you find a good one, you really find a good one. You feel for a second like you’ve won the lottery. When Petoskey stones are shined up, they look somewhat spectacular. Local Traverse stores will find them, shine them, and sell them to you, but it’s so much more fun to hunt for them on your own.
Dave decided this year to experiment with some of the tiniest stones we managed to uncover, casting them inside his resin rings. The results so far have been pretty fantastic. We’re going to shop them around a few of the shops and galleries we frequent in Traverse and Sutton’s Bay to see if we can get some takers, but if you like them, let me know, and I’ll see what I can do.
Of course, there are still other designs in Dave’s Etsy shop — just no Petoskeys there yet. This one is my favorite right now — it includes beach glass from Alki Beach (which is a treasure trove of tiny beach glass — lots of beer bottles must break on Alki).
Dave’s work is so beautiful. Sigh.