A week ago, here in Marburg, we caught the tail end of the hurricane Xynthia. While our town wasnt hit nearly as hard as alot of Europe, we did have some crazy winds. In fact, an 80 foot pine tree fell on our poor little Honda Civic. It was completely squished. Strangely though, it was a bit inspiring - the whole force of nature and timing thing. So I made a bunch of pieces to commemorate it. Some are made out of actual pieces of the tree that squished our poor little Grunzwerg (means green dwarf in German). This is the second piece in this collection.
I call this one Bird In Hand. It is a piece of "the" tree. Pine bark that has been sealed so it is solid and weather proof. Set on it is a vintage image of a birds head, resined onto a vintage watch face, and around it are various watch parts and crystals. It is a wee little brooch and looks really pretty against a scarf or on a coat lapel.

A week ago, here in Marburg, we caught the tail end of the hurricane Xynthia. While our town wasnt hit nearly as hard as alot of Europe, we did have some crazy winds. In fact, an 80 foot pine tree fell on our poor little Honda Civic. It was completely squished. Strangely though, it was a bit inspiring - the whole force of nature and timing thing. So I made a bunch of pieces to commemorate it. Some are made out of actual pieces of the tree that squished our poor little Grunzwerg (means green dwarf in German). This is the second piece in this collection.
I call this one Bird In Hand. It is a piece of "the" tree. Pine bark that has been sealed so it is solid and weather proof. Set on it is a vintage image of a birds head, resined onto a vintage watch face, and around it are various watch parts and crystals. It is a wee little brooch and looks really pretty against a scarf or on a coat lapel.

This is a handwoven copper crochet necklace, interspersed with small, orange glass faceted beads that catch the light in a charming way. The pendant is an agate slice which is surrounded by a hand forged copper bezel with attached bail. The clasp is also copper and is a pretty little toggle clasp (easy to work). The whole thing has a lovely, natural warm glow.

All but the stone and clasp are handmade. The chain is hand wrapped Viking Knit. The pendant is an agate slice in rich brown and cream tones. The bezel is copper chain maille, hand linked. The chain took me about 3 or more hours to make and the bezel about the same. Im a bit house proud of this one :). The clasp (although store bought) is also copper. It is a longer chain and hangs about breast length