Necklaces

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Calavera IV

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“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” –and find that there is no death.”
— Eckhart Tolle

Calavera IV Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Calavera III

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West

Calavera III Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Calavera II

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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
— Ashley Montagu

Calavera II Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Calavera I

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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Hellen Keller

Calavera I handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Warmth

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“What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. ”
— Pema Chodron

Warmth Necklace.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.
This Thursday in my online shop.

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Currant

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“Desire makes everything blossom.”
— Marcel Proust

Currant Necklace.
Handmade with hessonite garnet and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.

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Seedling

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“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
— Alice Walker

Seedling Necklace.
Handmade with prehnite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Voice

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I am grateful that I get to express myself freely in this world. It is a privilege that the women in my family earned and I inherited.

Voice Necklace.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Marlies

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Meet Marlies Gelens. An artist and industrial designer who in 1999 migrated from The Netherlands to San Agustinillo, a tiny settlement on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Marlies and her (then) Dutch partner began to sell their homemade European-style bread to neighbors, and eventually set up the beloved restaurant, Apa Pan. Marlies remodeled the existing structure, designed the furniture, and baked the delicious bread that brought lines of grateful customers for years to come.

In 2016 Marlies left the coast and moved to San Sebastian Rio Hondo, a remote village on the Mountains of Oaxaca, to begin her dream of working with textiles. She had been making pillows with ribbon, but now she wanted to use cotton and wool to make ceremonial garments and work with local women. When she shared her vision with me last year, it became clear that she was the perfect person to inherit my mom’s textile raw materials.

As many of you know, my mother was an incredible textile artist. She was a master knitter who dyed her own yarns and designed one a of a kind sweaters. For decades, she worked with dozens of women from the neighboring towns to make fabulous knits that she would export to the United States, and sell in her boutique in the Bazaar Sábado, in Mexico City.

A year ago, as my mother struggled with the later stages of Alzheimer’s, I explained to her that her fabric, yarn, dyes, and tools would soon come into the hands of many women whose lives would be enriched by her gift. She understood, and was so excited that for months she kept asking about the beautiful dream of the women and the textiles.

Since then, Marlies continues to develop the vision and moving parts of her project. Here she is in Durango buying her first batch of merino wool from a local farmer. She will soon wash it and turn it into felted pieces, spun yarn and exquisite fabric.

The Setting Sun Necklace will ground and inspire her as she creates ceremonial attire for life’s most transcendent moments.

This was my mom at work, and some of her finished pieces.

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Rooted

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“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”
— Eckhart Tolle

Rooted Necklace.
Handmade with amber, malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Available this Thursday in my online shop.

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Memory

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“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”
— A. A. Milne

Memory Necklace.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Vital

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“Every time you follow your inner guidance, you feel more energy, increased power, a sense of spiritual aliveness.”
— Shakti Gawain

Vital Necklace.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Solitude

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“It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts.
In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.”
— Henri Nouwen

Lone Necklace.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Setting Sun

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“There is in all visible things... a hidden wholeness.”
— Thomas Merton

Setting Sun Necklace.
Handmade with amber, malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Aligned

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“I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.”
— Martha Beck

Aligned Necklace.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Confluence

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“In a life properly lived, you’re a river.”
— Jim Harrison

Confluence Necklace.
Handmade with labradorite and recycled sterling silver.
Available this Thursday in my online shop.

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Wild Geese

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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
— Mary Oliver

Wild Geese Necklace.
Handmade with rose quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.