Been busting out some stashed pieces and making preforms while waiting to go collect more material. Some very enjoyable colors on the local stuff here. Made with traditional techniques and tools
Went creek walking with my brother yesterday and collected some matts without testing first. 9/10th was water intruded and thick grained stone not worth the time. I managed to salvage 2 small bifaces and as I thinned one out it revealed some nice fossils. All local material from stone to antler billet.
The year was 2000. I was turning 5. My awesome mother made me a Lapras cake, and my twin brother and Eevee cake. (Sorry no photos of my twinnos cake) I'm 31 now. I sure do feel lucky to have an awesome mom who put in the effort.
I eat like one or two a week so I've had these for a month. I guess I'm supposed to finger bang my entire pack when I buy it and inspect every single one because Smokiez is putting garbage into their gummys.
Phenomenal colors from some iron stained mozarkite.
This little runt was harvested wild about 3 years ago, hit hard by the coridae, and early stages of spider mites. I decided to give it another chance and it has thrived over the last 3 years. Even with these suckers growing fast it has not been an overnight journey. Opuntia Humifusa
Broken blanks of various stage. This is more of a showcase for one variety of Missouri chert i have local