Magic wampum purple seashell necklace

Man was very poor and he lived by the sea. One time he was walking by the beach and he saw a big purple seashell. He saw purple stripes seashells before but this one was different. He was so poor he couldn't catch enough fish or grow enough fruits from his tree. He threw a rock in frustration and the rock landed on the sand so when he picked it up he saw an even bigger shinier seashell and he decided that he wanted to make a spearhead with it. He made a box and a plate and spoons with carving those seashells. Then he fell in love with a woman a very poor woman because he felt like he understood her pain and he wanted to do something that would change her situation so she doesn't struggle. He made a necklace for her but she walked away and he was never able to give it to her. Ke kept the wampum shards that he carved for the necklace.
Time flies fast and sometimes it seems like time barely moves. For six years he continued improving his house and things he had. He built a new firepit and he painted a ring at the bottom of his trees so they would be protected from insects. One time he was cleaning and organizing and he saw the chest where he put the wampum shards. It brought him pain to see the chest and old memories came back. He thought let me just open the chest to see the necklace pieces again. When he opened the chest he saw that the wampum shards looked like they had holes and little dimples from time damage. His face looked very sad and he thought hoe could I be so foolish. I should have known that time would eat away at the precious shells. If only I had thought to protect them from the moisture and air that had been ruining them. If only I put them in a dry cool place. But he understood that this would
be almost impossible because the moisture and humidity from the ocean and hurricanes were present on the beach all the time.
He now was busy thinking jowl come he spent so much time polishing the shells if they don't last. One time he was walking by the beach and he got frustrated again. He has trying to make a hole in the sand to put a wooden pike in it which would be one of the sticks holding his new tent to cover him from the sun when he was fishing or sleeping on the beach. He then felt something hard was blocking the bottom and when he moved the wooden pike out of the way, he saw that a sharp and hard triangle was blocking it. He picked it up and immediately cut his hand. He grew frustrated but then he thought I can use it to cut wampum shells faster and indeed the shark tooth cut wampum much faster other was like cutting bread much easier.
if he didn't have the misfortune of being poor he wouldn't have thought much of the shells and he wouldn't learn how to cut them. If he didn't have the misfortune of taking so long to polish and cut the sea shells and spending 6 years to cut them only to see the necklace defaced with time he wouldn't learn how valuable his time and a proper plan was. Now he thought of a better plan that was going to save him time. He found new wampum shells and he carved them with the shark tooth. He put the shards in a dry place and he covered them with a protective coating he created by grinding stone into powder and mixing it with wax from a tropical tree. He went to the marketplace to sell his new wampum plates, spoons and boxes and the people laughed when they heard how he made the protective coating. The woman he fell in love with told them to stop laughing. She said come to see me in the evening and i will tell you how to make protective coating to keep the wampum surface shiny and protected from time damage. So when the sun began to set they met on the beach and she told him how to make a protective coating. To thank her he gave her the new pieces of the necklace. She said why don't you give me the old pieces instead.
Let me know what you think about the story so far and if you would like to read the end of the story. I have different ideas about the end of the story. One idea is that the main character has a daughter and she has grey or grey blue eyes. Another idea is that he finds a blue stone and he starts carving it.