Day Of The Dead Calaveras

As some of you may know, about 6 years ago, my husband and I spent a month on Oaxaca, Mexico; from mid-October till mid-November. This put us right in the middle of one of Mexico's most exuberant celebrations of The Day Of The Dead. Handmade altars, decorated with food, flowers and sugar skulls, were constructed all over the city. Huge skeleton puppets were paraded in the streets and placed in business storefronts.

Near Llano Park in Oaxaca, Mexico

The puppets as well as the sugar skulls, were often crowned with colorful flowers, especially marigolds. Orange marigolds are said to guide the spirits of the departed, back to their homes on the Day Of The Dead.

In keeping with these customs, I dangled bright orange flowers beneath these wonderful pewter skull (Calavera in Spanish) charms by Inviciti.

The flowers have a golden luster finish that looks especially pretty in the light. I made my own Sterling silver ear wires to go along with the skull earrings.

The skull motif is popular year round, but these would be especially fun to wear this month! You can find these earrings in my shop now.

Linda Landig Jewelry

Sugar Skulls

Who doesn't like them?! Well I never did, but they've grown on me now. For today's post I used a pair of my painted resin skulls. I kept them simple as there is so much going on already...(the honest truth is I had no idea what to do with these 😅).  Hope you like my matchmaking. 

Ceramic beads are from Perlayo on Etsy.

It's a short and sweet one from me today.  I'm listing the earrings on Etsy shortly.  See you soon <3

Suhana xx

My Etsy shop: Suhana Hart Jewellery