i had to fix the length on the necklace i made for mom. after looking at it, i decided i wanted something similar so i put these two pieces together last night:
black matte japanese seed beads, various bali silver beads, shell, ostrich egg shell, turquoise bird's eye kings mantle from two cranes:
black matte japanese seed beads, various bali silver beads, silver calico onyx california from two cranes: