When I told my parents I was starting to make jewellery my dad immediately started on one of his tirades about how I should go out and find rocks and tumble them and sell them as "Australian *whatever* stone from *whatever place I found it*" I don't think he realised that the type of rock could probably be found anywhere and to do that is WAY out of my price range at the moment.
He did however also suggest honky nut (gumnut) jewellery, which always good seller to the overseas market.
On a birdwalk on Sunday I grabbed a handfull of nice round nuts from an Ironbark.
So what I'm asking. What do you think would be good to seal these with (would they need sealing at all?) and what kind of pendant mounts should I use? They are pretty round so a cone shaped mount wouldn't work. A large Marri nut would require something even shallower.
I hope that made sense!
Gemfyre