WILDERNESS

As a child I spent plenty of my time exploring through wilderness that surrounded my parents summer cabin. We were the only house for blocks went we first built there, which gave plenty of landscape for my brother and I to use our imagination. We were always on some trek, building fort cities,hopping fallen trees and climbing up big boulders - we spent endless hours outside. 

(My Brother and I draining the pool in our dirt backyard. Dad cleared us a space so we could put the pool there, and mom put out a tarp red carpet so we wouldn't drag our muddy feet into the house. Notice the Seesaw/Teeter Totter - My dad made it from a slice of a giant log - we played on that thing for years until rot got to it.)

It is amazing what grows in the wilderness, all on its own, with no one to plant the seeds and bulbs. Tiny mosses and buds and little teeny flowers - things you may only notice as a child.

Wilderness Necklace reminds me of those times. I have fabricated it around a stunning flat top orby Ocean Jasper. Around it are tiny leaves and buds, growing just like they did around the boulders in my wilderness. At the top I have flush set a 3mm Swiss Blue Topaz, blue like the reflection of the sky in a puddle. The entire piece is fabricated from sterling and fine silver, and I have intricately cut out sporadic petals and leaves. At the bottom of the piece a small ferns curls around the stone - just like in my wilderness.

WILDERNESS - Flora Collection Necklace

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