The little animal in left front, is supposed to be a cat, and it is carved out of Petoskey Stone. (I bought it on Ebay--it was sort of a "steal" since that day few were bidding, so I got it for a good price.)

Five of the spheres were made by me.

My son took some nicer pics of them and has them on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekevi...7604118053496/



And this is another set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekevi...7614654881111/
The five are shown more closeup in detail in his pictures.
You can see them better from his pictures.

Some of the other things on the shelf are things I have collected over the years. The large quartz and purple fluorite in the center are from my youth..both are over 40yrs old, in my posession.

The sculpture footprint in the upper left is a wolf print I made from our vacation home/island.

The black thing in the background is a carved obsidian crows skull, that is in one of my son's pics on Flickr. I bought that on Ebay from a sculptor in Utah who does all sorts of odd things ..I think it is laser cut by a computer, from a computer model made from a real skull. It is very interesting, and was pretty expensive. In fact it is the most expensive thing on that shelf.

My crystal spheres --I've been doing them for about 2 yrs now-- I buy the little crystals and tumbled semiprecious stones on Ebay from some suppliers who are on there.

The little dark crystals on the little ball on the left front, are real smokey quartz from Australia. They were a bit pricey too!

This shelf is right above my monitor, and I look at it all day long, when thinking and typing responses here.
The shelf grew out of a few inexpensive "balls" that I had collected over the years...so I expanded it to include all sorts of things now. (some of the things on that shelf are pyrite, malachite, fluorite, copper, quartz, amethyst.)