“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.”
Blessings Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Elemental
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Elemental Necklace.
Handmade with nickel free bronze and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Shared
“Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.”
Shared Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Shop Update: Calavera Necklaces
Calavera X
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching”
Calavera X Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
This Friday at 1 pm, CT in my online shop.
Calavera IX
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
Calavera IX Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
This Friday at 1 pm CT in my online shop.
Calavera VIII
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
Calavera Necklace VIII.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera VII
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
Calavera VII Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.
Calavera VI
“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another”
Calavera VI Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera V
“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Calavera V Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera IV
“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” –and find that there is no death.”
Calavera IV Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera III
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Calavera III Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera II
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
Calavera II Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Calavera I
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Calavera I handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Barnacle Necklaces
I will add the four Barnacle Necklaces to my online shop this Thursday at 1 pm, CT.
Every piece is one of a kind and comes with a (long or short) darkened sterling silver chain.
Warmth
“What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. ”
Warmth Necklace.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.
This Thursday in my online shop.
Currant
“Desire makes everything blossom.”
Currant Necklace.
Handmade with hessonite garnet and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.
Seedling
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
Seedling Necklace.
Handmade with prehnite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Voice
I am grateful that I get to express myself freely in this world. It is a privilege that the women in my family earned and I inherited.
Voice Necklace.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Marlies
Meet Marlies Gelens. An artist and industrial designer who in 1999 migrated from The Netherlands to San Agustinillo, a tiny settlement on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Marlies and her (then) Dutch partner began to sell their homemade European-style bread to neighbors, and eventually set up the beloved restaurant, Apa Pan. Marlies remodeled the existing structure, designed the furniture, and baked the delicious bread that brought lines of grateful customers for years to come.
In 2016 Marlies left the coast and moved to San Sebastian Rio Hondo, a remote village on the Mountains of Oaxaca, to begin her dream of working with textiles. She had been making pillows with ribbon, but now she wanted to use cotton and wool to make ceremonial garments and work with local women. When she shared her vision with me last year, it became clear that she was the perfect person to inherit my mom’s textile raw materials.
As many of you know, my mother was an incredible textile artist. She was a master knitter who dyed her own yarns and designed one a of a kind sweaters. For decades, she worked with dozens of women from the neighboring towns to make fabulous knits that she would export to the United States, and sell in her boutique in the Bazaar Sábado, in Mexico City.
A year ago, as my mother struggled with the later stages of Alzheimer’s, I explained to her that her fabric, yarn, dyes, and tools would soon come into the hands of many women whose lives would be enriched by her gift. She understood, and was so excited that for months she kept asking about the beautiful dream of the women and the textiles.
Since then, Marlies continues to develop the vision and moving parts of her project. Here she is in Durango buying her first batch of merino wool from a local farmer. She will soon wash it and turn it into felted pieces, spun yarn and exquisite fabric.
The Setting Sun Necklace will ground and inspire her as she creates ceremonial attire for life’s most transcendent moments.
This was my mom at work, and some of her finished pieces.
