Birthday Pilgrimage

Today I took the day off to visit Earth Mother, a painting by Edward Burne-Jones. Had only found out about her existence a month ago and she had been calling to me ever since I saw the painting listed on their website. Every bit worth the drive, even worth the odd looks from the security guard who seemed puzzled by my reverence and length of visit. Likely he was afraid I was going to try and run off with it or get it wet with my misty eyes. :) 

Worcester Art Museum, or WAM !

Happily surprised at how many pieces of Medieval Art was to be found there, paintings and sculptures and even a reconstructed Medieval Chapter House with glorious Stained Glass.

Took notes, was inspired, made sketches, took some pictures. The photos were taken with my Droid Phone and without flash, so none really captured the work very well, but wanted to share them here just for memory's sake and for some fun pairings.

Looking forward to visiting again!

Long Weekend

Had a lovely Memorial Day weekend..still working here and there to keep up. Also made some time to tend to family graves, do a bit of gardening, and to sit in the yard eating veggie hot dogs. So happy to see the first hummingbird of the season visit our honeysuckle vine.

Three guest dogs kept us and the cats company, I love that I get to spend time with visiting animals through my husband's business: Walk-About Animal Care Services~

Tonight I added a sneak preview of "The White Rose", an iridescent stained glass version of my Tudor Rose necklace to the main page of the site...more details later!

The White Rose

Tudor Rose Embroidery

a little image of inspiration

Working on my first Pearl colored Tudor Rose necklace,

and I am so excited about the results! Found the perfect

Swarovski to match the pale, iridescent/opalescent glass.

Baba Studio Collaboration

Recently, I was lucky enough to work with the beautiful creations of Baba Studio. For this photo shoot that took place in Prague, I sent them three necklaces with images from their Bohemian Cats line. Lucky me, as I have been a fan for some time and get so much pleasure from pouring over each card in their Tarot Deck.

more: Baba Studio on Facebook

close ups of the jewels: Parrish Relics

one week from today: FaerieCon!!

Orlando

Back from a brief vacation, hope to update more often once again~

This film has been on my mind a lot lately, a glorious adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Starring the incomparable Tilda Swinton and fabulously cast Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I~!

loads of costuming & jewelry inspiration spanning several time periods

new thorn pictorials

three new pictorial necklaces listed on the thorn pages...