How about a fish bowl?

steven fischler wrote:

> I've brought back some particularly beautiful shell fragments from a
> trip to the Oregon coast.  I'm trying to find just the right container
> or containers to display them and do justice to them.
>
> Somehow the same tired old glass apothecary jars seem boring, and I'm
> coming up short on other ideas.  I want a container that doesn't call
> attention to it itself, but instead provides a setting for the natural
> beauty of the fragments; I'd also like it to be an open container that
> allows people to touch and examine the fragements.
>
> Any suggestions, list people?  I'd be very grateful for any ideas.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Erika Gottfried
> Teaneck, New Jersey
>
> P.S.  The biggest prizes in my haul were some amazing mussel fragments
> that, instead their usual white pearly insides, have a blue-green sheen
> like abalone (smashingly set off by the dull navy blue of the outside of
> the shells).

--
Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.

Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells

Bobbi in Shell Creations