I love it
when I can find earring components with the graceful curves of a goddess, and Kristi Bowman Design's beautiful copper components never disappoint. Whether the components are slender or zaftig, dramatic or delicate, it always makes me happy to make a beautiful pair of goddess earrings with Kristi's copper pieces.
Here are just a couple of examples of goddess earrings I've made over the last couple of years.
These earrings, with Kristi's richly textured shield-shaped components, have an ancient, feminine, Tribal Goddess feel to them. I also had a lot of fun playing with fiber. (Lampies are by Magdalena Ruiz.)
These earrings with tapestry-textured copper points
are also tribal in tone, but they have a more modern and casual spirit, mostly because of Julie Sontag's colorful, fun enameled lampies.
Given my penchant, you have to know how excited I was when Kristi made some new goddess components recently:
They're graceful and shapely and beautiful--and of course I bought a set of them. When they arrived and I had a chance to run my fingers over them, I knew what I wanted to make and what goddess I wanted to celebrate: Aurora, the goddess of the dawn. This goddess offers dawn's hopeful, renewing energy and is known for the elements of love, joy, beauty, health, and fertility.
As the goddess of the dawn, it stands to reason that her colors are the bright, warm colors of a beautiful sunrise: pink, red, magenta, gold, lavender. I added to the beautiful copper components hot pink Czech glass flowers, magenta Czech glass rondelles, and copper accents and then wrapped and knotted everything together with magenta waxed linen cording.
Shapely, graceful, lovely...the Bringer of the Dawn.
May you all have a wonderful dawn, no matter what time of day (or night) you're reading this. I'll see you next time!
Meridy
xoxo
