thanks red head stock
Thanks skybase
Thanks resurgere
Thanks Heeeeman
Thanks enchantedgal stock
seagul pics http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1216201
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1216199
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1216200
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1216203
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1216205
thank you ROlve for the seagul pics
sory for the ragtag sbs i'm crazy bussy right now i might make a tutorial at a later date.
sorrryyy!!

I once saw a flawless crystal ball at a museum and it played tricks on my eyes because I could see the distored things behind it but I couldn't actually see the glass itself. The attempt here was to recreate that.

I racked my brain thinking of something to spend a ton of money on that would be totally useless. Then it occurred to me that when I worked in a gift gallery, we used to sell some of the most expensive crystal in the world.

We had a gentlemen from Russia who wanted to buy over 200 sets of a grouping of grapes that cost 350 dollars each to make a giant chandelier for his yacht. By the time we finished the design in crystal, the COST, Not the retail was up to 350,000 dollars. It was amazing how much he was willing to spend when At the time I was having trouble making rent. (He later flew to the factory and bought the entire lot from the owner of the factory)

So I decided I'd commission a room made of crystal encased columns, crystal encased floors, crystal lit ceilings

I added the girl with a crystal filled hat in a crystal backed frame for the opulence factor.

Please see SBS for my sources