Sea Urchin (mermaid piece)

What's with the mermaids, anyway? Besides the belief that I am one, my favorite story growing up was Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". No, not the Disney-fied happily after after nonsense, with a wedding and singing crabs, but the dark allegory of his forbidden love for Edvard Collin.

The one where the heroine has the choice: kill her beloved's beloved, and she will be a mortal. Instead, she throws the knife into the sea, her sacrifice making her a daughter of the air. Sacrifice is true love, and my idea of romance.
Sea glass from Hawaii, antique red coral from a broken necklace,windshield glass and a perfect sea urchin.