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Inspiration for my Short Snouted Seahorse Pendant
My Seahorse Pendant had what you might say was a difficult childhood. Since the moment that I learned to wax model, I have had a long list of sea creatures that I felt belonged in my collection. Funnily enough, seahorses weren’t amongst them. Seahorses have always been very well (over-) represented in jewellery, due to their obvious charisma and the possibility of making a cast directly from a seahorse’s dried body (which is not a technique I use). So obviously my natural rebellious tendancy was to avoid them.
But my customers strongly disagreed with me! I successfully dodged a traditional seahorse by convincing a customer that the Weedy Seadragon was the coolest seahorse ever (-it is!). But the requests kept coming. But then I stumbled across a wonderful picture of one of our native seahorses, the Short Snouted Seahorse, with its tail drifting serenely behind it. And I was hooked. And now it is one of my go to necklaces!
Short snouted seahorses are found in the shallow estuaries or seagrass meadows. They have even been found in the Thames! They use their tail to cling onto seagrass or seaweed, as they are poor swimmers. Having no teeth they and simply suck up small shrimps and plankton through their snouts.
For more about Short Snouted Seahorses visit The Wildlife Trusts or The Seahorse Trust.
I also make a , or click here for all Sea Creatures.
