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<br />Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com3Bay Shore, NY40.560607617221045 -73.17426679934737939.028074117221045 -75.756053799347384 42.093141117221045 -70.592479799347373tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-26813653165083743872019-08-25T11:48:00.000-04:002019-08-25T11:51:57.513-04:00making up for lost time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been busy. So busy. Taking old things apart and making them into new things. Sometimes the creative flow just takes over and it is glorious.<br />
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If you heat copper wire on the gas burner on the stove until it's glowing red, it makes it nice and soft and malleable.<br />
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Why did it take me so long to try this?<br />
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This one started when I reworked an older piece that I was tired of wearing. By the time I was done, there wasn't one single element of the original necklace that I had kept. Things take on a life of their own.<br />
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Garnets and some great brass rings and beads. My little kiln is having temperature issues so I haven't been making any components. Also, it's been too hot to test fire it.</div>
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Labradorite eye with copper beads and charms.<br />
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Lapis lazuli.<br />
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Carnelian.<br />
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A chunk of citrine was the inspiration for this one. Faceted horn beads, Beautiful handmade vintage African brass beads, borosilcate, jade, ammonite, ancient quartz, Tibetan mala beads. I really love this one. Hence the number of photos.<br />
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Tuareg earrings with no mates are reincarnated.<br />
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A request for a copper wire evil eye amulet inspired all kinds of variations. This one with Chinese jade cicadas and citrine nuggets.<br />
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This one with amethyst and bronze clay charms.<br />
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A bunch of evil eyes with different gemstones - this one green jade.<br />
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Red jasper for strength and courage. Little body positive pink ceramic goddesses. Serene Buddhas. Buddha hands and Tibetan copper skulls to invoke the wisdom of the ancestors.</div>
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Leather bracelet with Czech glass beads, bronze clay discs, copper and brass.<br />
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Jasper and petrified wood. Chinese symbols for longevity.<br />
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Artisan lampwork bead. Gorgeous colors. I may need to keep this one.<br />
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Years ago when I had some leftover Ice Resin from a pour, I coated a few Lunaria pods. They have tiny bits of Chinese herbal burn medicine instructions collaged onto them and little faceted citrines.<br />
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I've had the African hand cast spirals for ages but hadn't known what to do with them.<br />
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More simple evil eyes. Labradorite on this one. It's called "The Shaman's Stone" or the stone that "Heals the Healer". I was not attracted to Labradorite when my daughter was first working with it. I took me awhile to appreciate the subtle flashes of blue and purple, but it has become one of my favorite stones. I think it works well with bronze, silver and copper.<br />
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Carnelian and horn.<br />
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Time to take a breather and see what to try next. If you haven't visited my Etsy shop, Maggiezees, please check out all the new listings. Shipping is FREE right now to US customers. I'm sorry that I can't extend that offer to Canadian and EU buyers.Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com5Bay Shore, NY, USA40.7250986 -73.245394640.6769656 -73.3260756 40.7732316 -73.1647136tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-673321095281060452019-05-21T21:30:00.000-04:002019-05-21T21:30:46.588-04:00still making lots of soup and delicious jewelrySoon it will be too hot for soup-making, but never too hot for playing with beads and charms and stuff.<br />
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Lots of new stuff to share. I am way behind in photography and listing on Etsy and all the things I think I should be doing. Just indulging in the pleasures of creating.</div>
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For a while now, I've just assumed that blogging was pretty much passe'. People I was following are now using Instagram and Twitter and I have enough trouble trying to keep up on FaceBook. But last night I checked out my blogger account and found to my great surprise that I am still getting hits. Lots of them actually. So for anyone who is still along for the ride with me, here is a lengthy update.</div>
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I originally had a large labyrinth pendant on this necklace, but I wasn't completely happy with it. I had tried out something different for a bail and only realized after it had come out of the kiln and I was polishing it, that it looks just like the Trilithons of Stonehenge. I think the shape and size work much better. I used the second pendant with red jasper, carnelian, horn, and red tiger eye.</div>
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This one had been incomplete for ages. It features an old silver and turquoise pendant from Tibet along with silver and turquoise, a jade cicada, old silver earring orphan, Scorched Earth spike, Thai amulet and Whitby jet beads. Jet is a cousin to both amber and coal - very popular in Victorian times for mourning jewelry.</div>
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The weather hasn't be cooperating with my intent to photograph pieces outside - all the damp and dank has put a layer of green on my slate and whalebone props so I've had to look for some new backgrounds. The one above is the inside covers of a book I've had since I was a child - Sir Richard Burton's translation of "The Arabian Nights". I love the aged look of the paper. Some of the other photos are taken on the back cover, but it's not big enough to show an entire necklace.</div>
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This piece is kind of minimalist for me. It showcases an unusual pendant of green Prehnite. The photos don't begin to do it justice. I love that it's not clear and perfect. The inclusions and irregularities and color shifts within the stone are fascinating. Prehnite is sometimes described on New Agey crystal websites as "the stone that heals the healer". It's supposed to help release a person's natural psychic abilities and deepen meditative states. I just know that I am drawn to work with it on an aesthetic level if nothing else.</div>
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Rutilated quartz. Another favorite stone of mine. I love the threads of golden rutile running through the beads. Encased in time and space.</div>
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Gorgeous porcelain spikes by Petra Carpreau of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScorchedEarthonEtsy?ref=shop_name_search_sugg">Scorched Earth</a> on Etsy. I-Ching coins, old African cowrie shells, bone Buddhist mala beads, Kuchi coins, and Czrch glass talhakimt amulets. A little raw. A little wild and tribal. Steel wire was called for here.</div>
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Faceted chalcedony beads with my hand made bronze clay discs. A twisted copper jump ring and vintage gold washed brass "raised dot" Yoruba beads from Africa. </div>
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Another shield amulet with impressions of the dancing ladies inspired by North African cave paintings on both sides. A large smokey quartz crystal, recycled amber colored glass Krobo beads from Africa and tiny ones from Indonesia. I like to squish the clay out with my fingertips rather than rolling it out. I want to see the marks of my hands and leave no doubt that these pieces have been a labor of the heart and soul.</div>
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Another spike from Petra Carpreau. The colors are glorious! A rough faceted carnelian, a Thai amulet of a Kalachakra Wheel in sandstone, a bone spike incised with an Ohmmmm, a little wooden skull from a Nepalese or Tibetan prayer mala, and one of my bronze hands - open to repel negativity and receive blessings. Suspended from a bronze ring on a leather choker. I had sent this one along to Belle Armoire for consideration, so it will be listed as soon as I get it back.</div>
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And these two. I need to take some better photos so I can list them. The first one makes me think of woodlands - of Spring shoots poking through damp autumn leaves. Renewal and promise. Green garnets, wooden disc beads, and seed beads in many shades of green.</div>
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The last one is golden - sun shining through dew drops. Sparkling with faceted citrines, amber, and Peruvian opals. It's going to be very hard to part with these two. </div>
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Lots of completed pieces to share. I love the porcelain spikes on two of the earring pairs - made by Petra Carpreau of the Etsy shop, Scorched Earth. They are GORGEOUS!! And look like they were made to go with the bronze clay.</div>
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<br />Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-30240686505509256232017-04-23T20:09:00.000-04:002017-05-11T21:30:24.895-04:00more ...OK. I am obsessed. It's amazing to be able to imagine something and hold it in your hand a day or so later. <br />
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And three layering necklaces that have nothing whatsoever to do with metal clay. The silver hamsa was purchased at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul by a traveling friend and has been waiting to be used. It was too new looking, so I gave it a patina and bashed it up a little with my trusty hammer.<br />
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No metal clay here - just finally finishing a piece started a long time ago and abandoned during a creative dry spell.<br />
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Another orphaned piece that got united with a chain from something else that hadn't worked out. Big cool Tibetan silver(y) bead in the center. Like a shield.<br />
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One of those YUGE Thai terracotta amulets - hanging from a vintage Suffolk County bus token. But the "S" could certainly stand for Susan or Sarah - or Super.<br />
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And the rest are all PMC. Silver, copper, and mostly bronze. Which I love the best. Which strikes me as odd because I don't really care much for gold - except gold paint. Bronze though - I think of the Bronze Age, of course, archaeologist used-to-wannabee that I am. The clay that I am using has the ancient proportions of copper and tin. Both mined even in prehistoric times in Cornwall, by the way. Anyone else hooked on "Poldark"?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few of the pieces didn't work out. They crumbled to a brown dust. I was very disappointed, to say the least. The rest were also rough and brown, but when I tried polishing them, the results were much closer to what I had hoped for. Not sure what I did wrong, but I ordered a couple of different types of bronze clay and I'll try them out and see what gives the best results. I'm reminding myself that I've had the same disappointments with pottery and fabric dyes, so I just have to learn from it and move forward. Sometimes I can be such a grown-up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am the Queen of Procrastination. Two - ok, maybe more like three - years ago, I decided that I needed to expand my repertoire and branch out into making my own components. I thought about lampworking, but I am not a big fan of open flames. This is also why soldering seemed like a poor choice for me. I ordered a packet of silver clay and a creme brulee torch, but the expense involved was daunting, as was trying to find a place in my small house to do torch work of any kind. The silver felt too precious to allow me to make mistakes with it. I need to make LOTS of mistakes. It's how I grow and how my work grows too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Paragon metal clay kiln, metal clay in copper, bronze, and - - - something else I can't quite remember right now. The clay is not exactly cheap, but not so precious that I wasn't able to get into fooling around with it and making enough thingies for a firing. I will post some photos when they are done. I am sooo excited!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And another large ceremonial piece because people kept asking if I was ever going to make another one and I just happened to have bought two of the (alleged) Song Dynasty bronze coins and had one just hanging around.</span></div>
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Only a couple of weeks into the new year, we lost one of our sweet dogs, Tonka, to cancer. He was my shadow, my nap buddy and a constant ( and sometimes annoying ) presence next to my worktable. When I sit down to try to start a new piece, I can almost feel his big chocolate eyes watching me. For now at least, it's been impossible to be very creative. At least one of the blessings of have lived as long as I have is that I know that all things have their cycles. Spring will come.Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-87998604795217976422015-12-24T15:11:00.000-05:002015-12-24T15:11:40.551-05:00another turn of the wheel ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wheel of the seasons turns again into the dark and the cold in this Hemisphere. I wish you all radiant health, happiness, balance, and above all - peace in the New Year. I am grateful for the ongoing interest in my work and for your support.</span>Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-57694254633868915062015-11-22T19:58:00.001-05:002015-11-22T20:01:11.666-05:00krobo beads<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A dear friend gave me a strand of glass Krobo beads from Ghana for my birthday a few years ago. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They are "Mue ne Angma" or "Writing Beads", made from finely ground glass with glass slurry decorations that are "written" on and fused in a second firing. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They are brighter than most of the beads I tend to favor and they only found their way into a couple of pieces. I like an aged, more elegant look and these are - well - kind of crude and brash. But I know that if I find myself resistant to something, it means I have to suspend my judgement and find its own unique beauty. It works the same way with people too, but that's a little more problematic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just got this amulet listed on Etsy. I love the bronze hand clasp and the diamond shaped Thai amulet. I have come to the conclusion that my reluctance to part with a piece is an indication of how much of my heart I've put into it. I hope no one buys this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I've written about the ancestors before. About how shamans live with one foot in ordinary reality and one foot in the world of spirit and energy. We usually access that unseen world through trance/drug/drumbeat induced journeys. In some instances when we have been doing a lot of journeying, we flip back and forth - sometimes unexpectedly for some of us less experienced travelers. It can lead one to doubt her sanity. The great benefit is that it enlarges our personal definition of "reality". Quantum physics bears out the shamanic experience again and again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'm seriously digressing here. I just wanted to explain my use of the skull as a symbol of the protection of the ancestors. I use it as an invocation of the spirits and guides who I believe have our backs as we make our way through our lives. Some traditions say that they are not allowed to help us unless we specifically ask them for it. I use the skull beads as a reminder that there is more than can be seen with the naked eye - that we do not walk alone. The bead I used in this necklace is made of pyrite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See: <a href="http://www.shimmerlings.com/gemstones/pyrite/">Properties of pyrite</a> for more information on this powerful stone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also used a couple of vintage coins, one from West Africa with a six-pointed star on the back (the union of the Divine masculine and the Divine Feminine) and one from Nepal with an image of Mt. Kailash, sacred to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Coins are my shorthand for invoking abundance and wealth in all things. There is a Hamsa for protection; a Thai Buddhist amulet, blessed by monks, again for protection, good luck and wealth; a Chinese jade cicada bead, to remind you that you can always reinvent yourself like the cicada sheds her old skin; a little bronze heart - for love, of course! An Ethiopian cattle amulet, a quartz crystal point to amplify all the good mojo; some Labradorite beads (supposed to help facilitate self discovery and is a powerful protective stone).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the ancient feel that the soft grey/greens give this piece. It has a powerful presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To become a shaman, one must see things that the rational mind says should not be there, hear voices no one else hears, suspend disbelief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been a struggle for me all my life to learn to speak my truth. I suspect this is true of many women. These amulet chokers I have been making are a reminder to sing your own song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My oldest granddaughter started high school this week after going to a small, arts based charter school since kindergarten. She was upset Monday night because no one seemed to be responding to her openness and natural friendliness. In searching for words of grandmotherly advice, I found myself starting to tell her to be friendlier, make eye contact, smile more - and then before the words could leave my mouth, I caught them and swallowed them down and told her that she should just be her smart, funny, uniquely wonderful self and she will eventually find her tribe. Or they will find her.</span>Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-82973256119213783262015-08-15T19:56:00.000-04:002015-08-15T19:56:20.931-04:00still august<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-13537792892949761772015-08-07T11:11:00.002-04:002015-08-07T11:11:45.425-04:00August 2015<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I've been working on this piece on and off for a least a month, but at last I think it's where it needs to be and I'm satisfied. For now. I've had the little mother-of-pearl belt buckle forever. When I first moved to Bay Shore more than 40 years ago, I made friends with two little old ladies who ran the thrift shop for the local hospital and they used to put aside old buttons and such for me. This is probably from that stash. It's such a pretty piece - delicate and iridescent. I wonder where it came from and who wore it ...</span></span><br />
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Way back in the 1970's, I used to watch Dr.Who. I was a fan of the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, with his unruly scarf and unrulier hair. (I watch it on BBC America now too and am very impressed with the last three doctors, but I may just be watching so that my grandchildren think I'm hip.) The idea of time travel has always intrigued me. If I had access to a Tardis, the first thing I'd do is visit Broadway in the 1920's and catch the Marx Brothers live on stage. The second thing is attend a ritual at Stonehenge when that culture was at its height. When I hold one of these beautiful Russian fossilized ammonites in my hand, I am transported 60 million years (give or take a few million) back in time. It's incomprehensible. The quartz crystal bead above it is from Mali and I am told that children sift these beads from the sands of the Sahara, string them, and sell them to tourists. Since there is no way of dating them, they may be anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand years old or more.<br />
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Here's another necklace that I wasn't satisfied with and decided to rework. I added some more quartz crystal to the Labradorite and one of my copper wire DNA charms. Now it makes me happy. Just wish I could get the colors in the Labradorite to photograph better. I have a cool new photo prop though - a nice little piece of driftwood with an interesting shape.<br />
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I finally got around to listing this piece on Etsy. I don't know what was holding me back. The beautiful borosilicate bead is the last one that I had of the set; maybe the thought of parting with it was too daunting. You really can't see how magical it is in the photos. The green is like shards of Peruvian opal and there are so many shades of brown. The little faceted rondelles of petrified wood echo the browns in the bead. It really turned out to be a special necklace. I believe that's a Herkimer Diamond wired across the horseshoe. They're supposed to have tons of positive energy, despite their small size.</div>
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I bought of couple of these Endless Knot carved shell pendants a while back, intending to use them in summer necklaces. I collaged the back with Chinese script, skeletonized leaves, silk fabric and bits of Godiva chocolate wrapper, protected by layers and layers of ModPodge and Renaissance Wax. The cord is braided and finger-woven.<br />
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I would wear it with the collage side up, but it's reversible. Also very very long, so it can be tied at any length the wearer desires. Very versatile and perfect for Summer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.happymangobeads.com/">Happy Mango Beads</a> is having a contest to win some of its fabulous beads, so I made a new charm bracelet to enter. They are a great company with a social conscience to boot. I highly recommend checking them out.</div>
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My oldest grandaughter has gorgeous rainbow colored hair and is determined to get me to let her dye my silver locks purple. Maybe just a streak. Meanwhile, I'm loving the coming of Spring here - cherry and Bradford pear trees all in bloom, forsythia, daffodils, redbuds. Everything turning a joyous, hope-filled green. Tonic after a very cold and snowy Winter.<br />
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I wish everyone a Blessed Ostara, Happy Easter, and a wonderful Passover. I'm personally celebrating every one of them!<br />
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Were do-overs a common practice in your childhood as they were in mine? How liberating it was to be able to own your mistake and then claim a second chance to get it right. And if you had the power to go back in your life and invoke the rule of do-over, how many things would be changed? I'm thinking "Back to the Future" here. How would the course of your personal history be altered? For me, it's just as well that's not a possibility; maybe we're here to learn certain lessons and missteps create opportunities for growth that are an important part of that journey. <br />
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In art, however, unless the piece has left your possession for good, you can claim the Right of the Do-Over. I like the way this piece looks in the photo on the left. The steel wire wrap bothered me though, and the one time I tried to wear it, it clanked and made a racket. I thought it needed some softness and a little spark of turquoise to wake it up. So I got rid of the wire - even though I really liked the joints - and strung (stringed? strang?) the beads and pendants on waxed linen. This way they still maintain the ability to move the way I want, but in a more organic way. I changed the dangle on the far left completely. I think it's more harmonious now.<br />
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I looked at a lot of shaman's costumes and old amulets on Pinterest, as well as contemporary interpretations (check out <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/195062227587125977/">Stephanie Brouwers</a> amazing work) and it seemed like my shaman's amulet needed more STUFF hanging off it. The ends of the linen were begging to be beaded. I replaced the leather thong with a finger-woven cord of the same waxed linen and grunged it up with a little Guilders Paste.<br />
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Actually, it could probably handle lots more stuff. I think I'll just let it evolve.Maggie Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04438409750330558914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096877040401020537.post-21781645998885698962015-03-02T20:27:00.000-05:002015-03-02T21:12:54.582-05:00fusionI work in a very small space and it had gotten rather disheveled while I jumped from one project to another. I was having trouble finding things. There were piles on the floor I was tripping over. Beads everywhere. Time to clean. You've gotta have good feng shui to keep the energy flowing and clutter and dust are enemies of that flow.<br />
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When a cleaning gets to be needed that desperately, it becomes something like an archaeological dig: There are various strata you have to work your way through to let the work surface see the light of day. With my short memory and even shorter attention span, there were a lot of things turning up that I had forgotten all about. <br />
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When I began to make amulet jewelry, I was in love with Tibetan "beeswax" beads. I made quite a few pieces using them and I wear several of those pieces regularly. In organizing my stuff, I came across a box with pieces I had begun and gotten stuck with. I mean stuck in a design context. There was a collection of Tibetan beads and they seemed so sad to be relegated to a zip-lock bag in a Valentine candy box. Like World Music combines rhythms and instruments from cultures all over the planet and fusion cooking combines flavors, this necklace brings together crusty glass beads from the Czech Republic, amber colored horn beads from the U.S., silvery beads from Turkey, coins from the Middle East and those fabulous Tibetan amber "beeswax" beads. I think they're all happy to be together.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The picnic table where I usually take my jewelry photos has about a foot of snow on it. The temperature hasn't gotten above freezing in ages and I've had to resort to using a set up near a north window. We cope. It's not ideal, but it'll have to do for now.</span></div>
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Shoulder duster earrings with bone flowers, wooden skull beads and beautiful amber colored horn beads. I wish I didn't have such a short fat neck and I could wear them myself.</div>
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Leather, copper, abalone shell and a bronze Thai Buddhist amulet. Great casual piece.</div>
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Milagros earrings. Praying for true love.</div>
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Another variation on the abalone and leather theme - this time with a fossilized ammonite shell, a fancy copper wire bead and a recycled glass bead that makes me think of a root beer bottle.</div>
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And oh - this one. </div>
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This one I may have to keep. I love the brown and the green together. The fossilized ammonite shell with its slight iridescence, the carved horn spike. Oh yeah. I may need to keep this.</div>
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