I took this photograph with a canon A80 compact camera using its macro setting. Unfortunately the resulting detail only served to emphasize the inferior quality of the trinket by highlighting its basic manufacture and flaws in the crystal.
It was only the wife's birthday present so it wasn't as though I'd paid a lot of money for it, but I thought it would made a good photo.
By utilizing only part of the image and replicating it by means of Xaos Tool's Terrazzo plug-in, more interesting shapes and patterns emerged and the bad photo became a good design idea.

I created a kaleidoscope effect from part of the pendant image using Xaos Tools' Tarrazzo 2.0.
Terrazzo is a the sort of plugin that you can spend hours playing with. Don't think that you can use Terrazzo with some preconceived idea of how the results are turn-out (you just can't predict what you'll end up with).

Well, I ended up with a pattern of linked, vaguely religious looking, capsules to which I applied a small amount of lacquer (Flaming Pear plugin) to achieve a frosted look.

On top of that, I added a few bubbles using ulead's particle plugin.

Job done.