Nature Inspired Work & Cabin Fever

Sometimes looking out the studio window is my only connection to nature, the outside world for days. I am grateful to the many birds and squirrels that stop by to find shelter in the old pear tree.

This winter has been so hard on so many people, I'm sure the animals have had it bad but they seem to flourish and thrive all the same.  Survival. Hope. Cycle of Life.

Here is a group of creatures coming with me to the show on Sunday... 

if they don't find homes there they will be appearing on Etsy soon!

Fairy Twilight Garland Necklace

now up on Etsy~

Mughal Miniature

detail of a Mughal miniature

from ~ Indian Jewellery by M. L. Nigam

The Fountain of Life, 1519

The Fountain of Life

Hans Holbein the Elder

note the rabbits! and of course amazing costume and crown details...

tapestries and glass

sneak preview of some of the one of a kind pieces that will

be with me this Sunday at NYC's Cloisters Faire!

Saint Catherine

Saint Catherine of Alexandria ~Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden @1440

Busy getting ready for the Medieval Festival at the Cloisters Museum ~Fort Tryon Park in NYC! Very much looking forward to this as I have been wanting to attend for years but the stars never aligned.

Even better, this year I am vending and will be with my two dear friends Lisa and Lisa !

Counting the days until Sunday October 4th...

Half Sick of Shadows Flaming Shield Necklace

PR "Half Sick of Shadows" Flaming Shield Necklace

Bosch Crown

Hieronymus Bosch: Crucifixion of St. Julia or Liberata

Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy between 1500-1515

Dahnash and Meymooneh

"As she rose up through the clouds there passed one she knew by his tail to be Dahnash"

Dahnash and Meymooneh by Edmund Dulac

from Princess Badoura, A Tale from the Arabian Nights 1913

The Three Graces

The Three Graces (The Harmonious Elysium of Youth)

c. 1541 Hans Baldung Grien