Setting a fragment of the past...

This is a fragment of blue and white china I picked up on the beach at Lyme Regis last year. It has a beautiful blue thistle-like flower reminding me of the teasels we had seen on a country walk, crowned with jewel-like hoar frost. Somehow this piece wanted to be the starting point for my first earring along with a faceted blue-hued labradorite bead, (reminiscent of the sculptural eryngium thistles I had in my bouquet) and some gold and grey patterned anodised aluminium I had dyed. The colour combination was set....now to set the china!