TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Page 1 (you are on page 1, scroll down to view) Peru, Small Soapstone animals (first half of small), #Y-1 through #Y-130; Horse, horse head, bull, cow, pig, roly poly pig, rabbit, rooster, hen, cat, black cat, German Shepherd, Lhasa Apso, hound dog, land turtle (tortoise), sea turtle, sea turtle on leaf,  frog, frog on leaf, gator or crocodile, parrot, toucan, duck, squirrel, mouse, fish, owl, song bird, swan, eagle, seahorse, dolphin, sperm whale, beluga whale, penguin, seal, pelican, elephant, roadrunner or woodpecker bird, gorilla, stingray, scorpion, black scorpion, tarantula spider, black widow spider, ladybug on leaf, dragonfly, goat, water buffalo, shark, saguaro cactus, platypus, Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian devil, koala, wombat, starfish, iguana, iguana on leaf, chameleon lizard.

Page 2 Peru, Small Soapstone animals (2nd half of small; Large soapstone; Large Iguana, Penguin, Parrot)   #Y131 through #Y-299  

Small soapstone: Dinosaurs: Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus; Odontosaurus;  buffalo, warthog,  porcupine, snail on leaf, black raven or crow, cobra snake, hedgehog, armadillo, coyote, bear, ram or bighorn sheep, llama, moose, unicorn, kangaroo, hippo, camel, rhino, ostrich, giraffe, lion, bat, burro/donkey; 

LARGE SOAPSTONE: buffalo, squirrel, ram, pig, stingray, bear, snail on leaf, ostrich, dolphin, horse, chess horse head, cat, seal, llama, fish, lion, owl, coyote, elephant, elephant head, moose, frog, sea turtle, Billy goat, eagle, gorilla, burro/donkey, bat, land tortoise, armadillo (Brazil); 

LARGE GEMSTONE: iguana, penguin, and parrot

1.5":  unicorn, buffalo, horse, Pegasus flying horse, fish, seal, cat, butterfly, hummingbird, frog, dolphin, dogs: Dalmatian, Labrador, Cocker Spaniel, English bull dog, Schnauzer or Scottie, Shar Pei or Pug, Dachshund, Chihuahua, Airedale

Page 4 Small Gem  animals from China, 2nd part of 1.5", #Y-348 through #Y-374  

Ram Big horn sheep, fox/wolf, rhinoceros, hippo, giraffe, gator, eagle, lion, lion gargoyle, monkey, bear, bunny rabbit, tiger, coyote, bee, dragonfly, land & sea turtle, Uromastyx lizard, shark, owl, kangaroo, panda, elephant, panther/leopard, armadillo, burro donkey, bat

Page 5 Gem animals from China, 3rd part of 1.5"; Large T-rex carving; 4" penguins, #Y-375 through #Y-399  

Otter, cheetah, rooster, pig, flying pig,  camel, starfish, killer whale (Orca), penguin, squirrel, dairy cow, Dinosaurs: T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, snake, chameleon lizard, inch worm/caterpillar, roly poly mouse, grasshopper; seahorse, Chinese dragon, Chinese winged dragon, griffin, gargoyle, guardian angel

Page 6 Large Gem animals from China, first part of 2.25", #Y-400 through #Y-423  

Butterfly, Caterpillar, Cat, Sphinx cat, Cat angel, Bee, Seahorse, Unicorn, Penguin, Turtle/tortoise, Sea turtle; Dinosaurs: Triceratops, Diplodocus, Stegosaurus; Pegasus flying horse, Frog on lily, Frog, Dog: English bulldog, Scottie/Schnauzer, Cocker Spaniel, Dachshund, Airedale, Chihuahua, Labrador/Dalmatian, Shar Pei/Pug dog, Monkey, Pig, Flying pig

Page 7  Large Gem animals from China, 2nd part of 2.25", #Y-424 through #Y-476  

Elephant, hummingbird, eagle, gargoyle, dolphin/porpoise, Orca (killer whale); chameleon lizard, panda, giraffe, shark, squirrel, bat, coyote, fox, wolf, snake, hippo, dairy cow, rooster, camel, bear, kangaroo, donkey/burro

Page 8 Large Gem animals from  China, 3rd part of 2.25", #Y-477 through #Y-499 

Owl, seal,  sea otter, buffalo/bison, griffin, starfish, panther/leopard, dragonfly, tiger, walrus, cheetah, ram/bighorn sheep, rhinoceros, lion, lion gargoyle, horse, armadillo, gator, Uromastyx lizard, bunny rabbit, roly poly mouse, tropical fish

Average 1.5" tall or long, hand carved in PERU of natural SOAPSTONE

Cute & affordable, some of the expressions on the animal's faces or the body proportions will make you LAUGH OUT LOUD, from the constipated coyote to the scaredy cat to the mutant squirrels to dinosaurs that smile!  Even we never know what the next group of carvings will look like!

HORSE

(tail on right side may not show)

#Y4-4

#Y4-10

BUNNY RABBIT

A bunny-cat!

#Y6-1

HEN CHICKEN

KITTY CAT

#Y8-G

#Y8-6

$9 each

GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG

#Y9-A

LHASA APSO or MI-KI DOG

#Y9-53

HOUND DOG

LAND TURTLE

SEA TURTLE-like in Finding Nemo!

FROG

ALLIGATOR or CROCODILE

#Y14-7

PARROT

#Y15-9

#Y15-14

TOUCAN

all 2 pieces of soapstone

#Y16-5

DUCK

SQUIRREL

MOUSE or MICE

Moussion Impossible...

FISH or GOLDFISH

OWL

#Y21-2

#Y22-D

SWAN

#Y23-A

EAGLE

SEAHORSE

DOLPHIN

#Y26-L

SPERM WHALE

PENGUIN

SEAL

#Y29-H

PELICAN

ELEPHANT

#Y31-50

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast off Mexico.  The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their bi-annual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.  

Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.  Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

She said: "It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.
"It's hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand.

"We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too.  "I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at its best."  Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 meters) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.

They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance.  Despite having poisonous stingers, they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools.  The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to theYucatan.

$9 each

$9 each

#Y37-9

Saguaro Cactus like those seen in Western films!

The only venomous duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed animal out there!

AT 120 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK THAT KOALAS WERE ASKING PEOPLE FOR WATER.  IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.

ONE WENT TO A HOUSE TO TRY TO HIDE FROM THE HEAT AND TO GET A BIT OF SHADE   AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE OWNER GAVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK.

(Email dated 11/17/09 from customers in Australia)  

Hi Heidi and Glenn -
Here's something to cheer you up for your coming winter.  The date on the photos is January 2009, at the height of last summer's stinking heat wave. Yesterday was the first day of cooler temps for nearly 2 weeks - ugh - and now another 2 days of 105 F. Local news last week carried an item about a wild koala (remember, they're NOT bears) that scratched at a front door in the Adelaide suburbs and simply marched into the kitchen for a drink. It hasn't left the front porch and its water bowl since....amazing, in 40 years I've never heard of this before. You don't want to try to pick up a wild koala if you value your hide - those claws are sharp for tree climbing and they're strong little devils.

Your website is amazing - you never sit still! Is there anywhere you haven't been? We have a dream to do the Inside Passage trip one day, especially since we're in the middle of this stupid heat wave - and no rain for 3 weeks. We're in the driest state on the driest continent - humidity today is 5% - as soon as you finish hanging out a normal laundry load, the first bits are dry. Everybody lives around the edges, but the Outback has it's own beauty. Stunning colors. Hope you get a chance to visit - let us know.
Cheers
Louise and Peter

"Jacaranda trees put out blossoms first then leaves - the roads become purple carpets!"

A family in Maude, near Geelong, photographed the young female koala taking a dip after finding her on their verandah, shaking and distressed.

Images of the dehydrated koala bathing in a bucket of water have circulated around Australia, New Zealand and Britain.

Tracey Young's 10-year-old nephew, Tom Durren, and his sister, Kate, 6, discovered the koala on Friday when temperatures reached the high 40s (C.).

#Y49-1

#Y49-8

IGUANA LIZARD

#Y130-J

Awesome iguana quilt photo !