“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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Promise ring.
Handmade with chalcedony and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Plumed Serpent
Visual heritage.
Plumed Serpent ring.
Handmade with green agate and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Cacti
“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. ... It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
Cacti ring.
Handmade with aventurine and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Succulent
Agave green is the color of my heart.
Succulent ring.
Handmade with turquoise and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Serpent
Comfortable in your own skin.
Serpent ring.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.
Silence
Behind everything there is silence.
Void ring.
Handmade with star diopside and recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.
Impact
Let everything erupt inside you. Let there be chaos and destruction.
One day, you will realize that the chaos is not who you are, you are the observer.
That gap, between your thoughts and your awareness of them, will set you free.
Impact ring.
Handmade with fossilized dinosaur bone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Dance
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
Interplay ring.
Handmade with bronzite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Smoke
“If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
Crucible ring.
Handmade with smoked quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Alchemy
Here's to the beings who decide to make a mark. With a tool in hand, and a curious heart, they make something. Thought and feeling take form.
Alchemist ring.
Handmade with moonstone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Rapture
Sweet sweet caramel moonstone.
Rapture ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
High Priestess
How to be happy:
1. Get on a telemarketer's hate list.
2. When he calls you 30 times a day and hangs up as soon as you answer, save the phone number as "Spam" in your contact list and block it.
3. Blocked calls still ring twice before they are cut off.
4. Get angry every time you receive the call.
5. Change the caller's name to "Be Happy".
6. Smile whenever he calls.
High Priestess ring.
Handmade with steel gray moonstone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Playful
Playfulness comes when you realize that there is nothing to worry about, nothing to grasp, and no goal to reach.
Playful pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.
Inner Stillness
You are responsible for your state of being. Only that. It is the energy that you give out to the world that will enrich or deplete it.
Inner Stillness pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.
Gratitude
This year, I am most grateful for feeling at ease with myself.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Gratitude pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Presence
Here is a gift. I discovered it in Martha Beck's book, Finding your Way in a Wild New World, which I love.
Hand-Sensing Exercise by Eckart Tolle, from his book A New Earth.
Close your eyes and hold out your hand.
Allow yourself to feel your hand.
Ask yourself how – without touching anything, without moving your hand and without looking at your hand – you can know that your hand is still there.
Your mind might say it knows it's there, because it was just there a minute ago.
But there is another way of knowing. You can feel the inside of your hand, a subtle sense of warmth or tingling.
This is the subtle sense of aliveness.
If your mind wanders, just return your attention to feel the sensations in your hand.
This hand sensing exercise brings your awareness to the present moment. Do this exercise whenever you can to get in touch with your inner sense of aliveness.
This inner sense of aliveness is your own conscious presence, your being-ness, the you that you really are, beneath your thinking and beyond your story.
The quality of my life has improved greatly since I began this practice a few months ago. I hope you can try it!
Presence pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Awakened
The past few years were hard for me. Like a game of Tetris, the foundation of my identity came tumbling down when my dad became ill and we thought we’d lose him. I had little contact with the outside world, and spent lots of time alone. I needed to process grief, uncertainty, and unhealthy beliefs and behaviors from my past.
Grief became depression. I was unable to form a sense of who I was and of how I understood the world. I had turned to a scientific and logical view for answers, but it felt arid and soulless. Depression turned into hopelessness. In my lack of connection to myself and others I lost all footing, and soon it became hard to face each day. I sought help in therapy, but it took me deeper into the unresolved pain of my childhood.
I separated from my partner, and spent the next few months alone trying to reconnect with myself. I found new forms of therapy that strengthened my body awareness rather than my thoughts. I reunited with friends and family and shared a more vulnerable side of myself. Little by little I regained joy. I cut off my hair and gave away many of my belongings. I stopped trying to understand everything and instead let my senses lead the way.
The day the earth shook I felt that my journey into the depths of my psyche was ending. I had faced it bravely and my wound had healed. When the earth shook I ran out of my apartment. The lobby floor undulated and I fell across the hallway on my knees. For the first time in years I knew I had to get out. Life was waiting.
Awakened ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
North Star
“No one but you has the ability to find your own North Star and no one but you has the power to keep you from finding it. ”
North Star ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
*Urban Dictionary definition:
North Star: something that is constant and dependable in an ever changing world.
Hummingbird
“Stillness
not on the branch
in the air
Not in the air
in the moment
hummingbird ”
Hummingbird ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Undercurrent
Explore the depths of your soul.
Undercurrent ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.