I Upcycled A Crab Apple

Wondering what this is?
Yes, I upcycled a crab apple.

At the Spring One of A Kind show the booth directly across from me featured beautiful botanical art. Diane has figured out how to dry and then artfully arrange some very interesting fruits and vegetables. I was especially attracted to the pomegranate and orange slices.  I joked with her that if botanical was my art I would be wearing fruit and vegetable jewelery.
More than likely I would arrive every day looking very much like Carmen Miranda in her fruit head piece.
Since I wanted to experiment with fruit she gifted me with some samples on the last day. I coated these slices with....no surprise to my loyal readers....resin. I was not sure how the dried fruit would do. I thought it might get a lot darker, but the fruit was just fine.

Drilling small holes into the dried fruit (after the resin dried) was no different than drilling through dried polymer clay. Then I made some bead components and started looking through my stash for a necklace I might break up or borrow parts from to create a finished piece.

Some how this cheap old pearl necklace worked. From a distance you have no idea what is being dangled under the pearls.

I really like it on a darker fabric.
So the crab apples worked out really well...I still have the orange slices......stop me if you see me buying a fruit drying machine....I wonder how bananas would look....