A found olivewood heart, with additional carving by me. 2-1/2 inches high, 1-3/4 inches thick.

I came across a plain honey-colored wooden heart in a "on sale" tub outside a beautique, and immediately knew what I wanted to do with it. The honeycomb pattern of holes go to a single chamber carved out through the holes. The wood is mostly two shades of color, a darker one (with some very dark veins) that is mostly on the front, and a lighter one that is mostly on the back, though it wraps around to the front on the right side (that's your right, looking at the front). Besides the holes, I carved some shallow spirals and such on the darker part, but just a few lines at the edge of the lighter/back part.

The left-hand picture was done by sitting the heart on my scanner with a fake-leather menu cover held up behind it on three corks for background. The right-hand picture was done by sitting the heart on my desk top and using the macro function of an Olympus C-730 Ultra Zoom digital camera; lighting is by my Luxo Lamp.