JEWELRY : DO IT YOURSELF CHARM ADORNMENTS

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Wander
Sunday, 04th February
JEWELRY : DO IT YOURSELF CHARM ADORNMENTS

DESIGN BY REBECCA JOHNSON

What is it about jewelry with chains that keeps us coming back for more—or keeps us from escaping in the first place?

Using the highest quality materials exclusively sourced from around the globe, handmade chain designs incorporate beautiful symbolic mystical charms, amulets and talismans that have spiritual meanings. We add charms from our trips abroad – seashells from a favorite shoreline, a hallow wood piece of bark from the countryside, brass trinkets from antique markets – to simple threads and chains to give them a personal, storied edge.

A gold plated decorative hand of fatima is attached to a colorful friendship bracelet with a gold plated lobster clasp closure. Add a pom-pom to the cord end to compliment the bracelet. A pair of earrings from childhood make their way onto a chain-link gold bracelet, woven together with thread from the nearest flea market and pinned with a gilded token. You can order the charms on Etsy or pick them up from summer travels. Use an old keepsake. A piece of drift wood. A pebble. These trinkets are everywhere.

What better way to memorialize them than in a hand-made woven bracelet or necklace? Run a thread, yarn, ribbon, string –whatever- through the eye of a talisman, tie, and be adorned.

~Ashley Simpson

July 2013