This stone wanted to be a dog. And since that is exactly what I wanted, too, it turned out to be surprisingly easy. I was tickled with it.

I sort of wanted to keep this pendant. It's just a simple piece of crystal clear quartz, but it made such a lovely piece of jewelry.

Right after getting my batch of dogtooth stones, I chose the biggest and coolest-looking piece of dogtooth and turned it into a pendant.

This is the first of a series of very short posts about individual stones-turned-pendants, or whatever else I feel like featuring.

Sometimes, I just can't resist keeping a pendant after I've made it. Sometimes I can even resist for several days.

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