

| octahedron? me neither! who remembers what happened in geometry all those many moons ago?! here's a graphic image to help us visualize the sterling silver shapes that separate the tiny coral cubes. now that i "remember" what an octahedron is, i think of it as two pyramids stuck base to base. |


| the quarter and the penny -- at left and below -- indicate the relative size of the individual elements that make up this necklace. |


