These handcrafted jewellery designs are inspired by Fall Bay, Gower. There is a steep decent to this mystical bay, gorse covered cliffs are teaming with wild flowers and butterflies. A towering cliff face at the point, rises100ft out of the waves. High tide beats against it, spraying up over the sun drenched rock. Starfish and brown marbled strands of seaweed along with the mermaids purse cling to the rocks on the dark reef below, swaying back and forth with hypnotizing rhythm.
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FB1 Mermaid's purse necklace
	The solid silver mermaids purse pendant represents the home of the common dog fish. The baby fish spends nine months inside the case before swimming free into the open ocean. (2mm thick snake chain & mermaids purse is approx 2.5 inches long solid silver).
	Price - £85
FB2 Silver seaweed necklace
	The true colours of the sea beneath the cliffs of Fall Bay are reflected in the aquamarine and green aventurine beads, silver barnacles and bubbled seaweed strands complete this underwater theme.
	Price - £108
FB3 Seaweed necklace
	Silver seaweed pendant on a snake chain, with a turquoise or black pearl drop.
	Price - £85
FB4 Silver seaweed necklace
	Silver seaweed and turquoise pendant on a silver snake chain.
	Price - £30
FB5 Silver seashell bracelet
	Silver seaweed, limpet, starfsih and whelk charm bracelet with silver, beautifully coloured mystic blue feldspath and aquamarine beads.
	Price - £90
FB6 Seaweed earrings
	Silver seaweed earrings, suspended from green moss agate beads.
	Price - £45
FB7 Swirl earrings
	Silver swirls and small green moss agate beads present a very subtle ocean sentiment.
	Price - £32
	To order phone 07791 478563

Mermaid's purse.

when the bitterly cold easterly winds and icy conditions visit us here in Britain at the beginning of the year, it is hard to imagine where the shallow water marine creatures are. I know however that it is at this time of year from November to July that the sharks of our British waters are breeding. The most familiar to me being the common spotted dog fish.

These elegant swimmers usually produce up to ten egg cases or 'mermaid's purses' every month. The mermaid's purses of the dog fish have curly tendrills which attatch themselves to long seaweed strands and rocks. On numerous occasions we have seen the baby fish which appear after only one month inside the case washed up on the sands. These baby fish spend another seven months fattening themselves on the yolk before swimming free into the open ocean after nine months.

These 'catsharks' or dogfish are usually found sleeping during the day in the gullies and rocky outcrops of our shallow waters. Every spring when snorkelling I am lucky enough to come accross one or two of these beautiful animals. They lie peacefully on the sand with their brown marble eyes closed. Their skin has a surface pattern that any designer would be proud of, it is not unlike leopard skin sandpaper.