:::WINNER:::
Thank you to everyone who left a comment on this giveaway post! As usual, your comments were kind, lovely, intelligent, generous and even scholarly at times! Out of 243 original comments, my random number generator selected commenter number 21.
Congratulations to Ms Caren!
Thanks again, to everyone who entered the giveaway! It’s such a pleasure to have you in my world.
XX
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[Tintinnabulation Necklace: sterling silver, copper, enamel & rubber]
I’ve been tinkering about in the studio, trying to get my kiln working properly again, singing aloud as my hammers ping away at sterling and steel. This is such a miraculously different winter for me. I’m shedding those old habits of stress and pressured productivity in the studio (thanks to Robbie’s hard work this summer, and a good fire season), taking each day as it comes, as best as I can, spaciously, calmly, joyfully…and loving it.
This necklace is a result of prototype work I did yesterday. It’s like a wind chime for your sternum and perhaps a continuation of this work that began last winter — some of the same stories are beginning to be retold in my design efforts. It feels really good to have a rooted feeling at times, when I’m out there creating. With this piece, the way the enameled layers jingle, dance and sing is really quite magnificent. I’m pretty pleased with it but would love to develop a more sophisticated connection style for the enameled components. I’ll keep working on it. There will be more! The original sketch of this piece was named “Tintinnabulation: Ring the Warren Bells” and it has an enameled rabbit as a “dinger” in the smallest enameled layer! Tres mignon! I’m going to attempt the creation of the original idea today when I finally make it out to the studio. That said, this piece is really lovely and rather the perfect piece to wear whenever your soul needs a musical lift.
I thought I’d give it away.
Something about it seems like it was meant for the people. As always, I give things away simply to say thank you, to all of you, for being in my world. All you need to do is let me know you were here by leaving a comment on this post and I’ll count you in the drawing for this piece.
If you need a bit of prompting for your comment, feel free to tell me what you think about this quote a friend shared with me the other day! If you’re a shy one, feel free to simply say ‘hi’. Anything goes.
I just love that necklace, it’s so beautiful (as all of your pieces are)!
I recently stumbled across your blog and I am so happy I did. Very unique and interesting.
I love how you describe that piece as a wind chime for your sternum. Creates such a beautiful sound when you think about the words. As always your pieces are beautiful and magical!
“…when all was ready for it as animals come to drink when night holds sway and the forest is free of strangers”. Bowing to the Law
such magnificence held within a small space. i feel like time is ever-eluding me, but when i visit your little corner of the this vast internet space i can literally feel time slow just a little bit. it must be the pace of the woods and open space that you channel…
anyway, a beautiful adornment, of course.
so generous of you to offer it as a thanks!
xo
you create beautiful things. toss my name in the hat.
Beautiful things for the people – Love it! Also, your post from Wed was so moving. It’s one of the most wonderful things in life to fall in love with the land. I feel so blessed to have experienced it. xo
Hello, still loving your work! Count me in please x
I am glad to hear you are feeling a little more at ease. Making income off creativity is a special kind of stress 😉 Hurray for RW’s good season!
Hooray INDEED!!!
I call that kind of bread winning creative stress “TANGY”!
Keeps you on a knife edge at times.
XX
Your work is fascinating. I wear my pinto horse ring so often. It’s like my spirit made into stone and metal if there ever was an object that could symbolize me like that. I don’t generally feel this way about material things… so I admit this a little sheepishly. I slip it in my finger and that’s all the adornment I need. See me gallop now.
Girl, I love your spirit.
Id love to covet one of your magical creations 🙂
I would love to enter and in return I shall share this song with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbfVH2k0OF0
You inspire me with your words as well as your artwork. Thank you!
Love the quote dear Jillian. I would have really liked to know if Rodin really felt that or if this is Donohue’s impression based on his study of Rodin and his readings. I do love those works of Rodin that I have seen but I don’t know if I could have written that…well done indeed.
The necklace is lovely too. I am first drawn to the colors, like always, and then to the multidimensionality, and mostly to movement. I am glad that you have subtracted stress from studio work, makes all the difference I am certain.
Good seeing you…I wanted to email you and tell you about our crazy mail man again that made me furious. xx
I would also love to know what Rilke’s notion of Rodin’s work is based upon. What I DO love about this quote though, is the notion that art…artists…can be free of arrogance in their work. That seems, to me, to be the truest and most generous language of beauty — art that isn’t about self, self-expression, ego, power…but art that is about lifting up the beauty of humans and nature as well as the beauty of God.
…”art that is about lifting up the beauty of humans and nature as well as the beauty of God”..:
THESE WORDS SHINES THROUGH IN ALL YOUR WORK JILLIAN!!
and i have it the exact same way as pony raider further up here : )
xx
Well said J…so much of art is self-love sometimes and I cannot relate to that because it seems like living someone else’s life. I like it when artists can get away from themselves so to speak and humbly look at beauty that is around them. I will have to go look at Rodin again and see what it makes me think. xx
Being married to an artist…oh my mind is racing! I must get my hands on the book!
How lovely! Count me in 🙂
I don’t know what a tintinnabulation is, but I will look it up as soon as I am done telling you that I love this piece!
I LOVE THIS PIECE!!!!!
Thanks to RW for a good season and thanks all that contributes to the peace and joy that is radiating from your words and work. Much love, sister.
…Now to look up that word!
You lovely soul! Art should always be “for the people”. At the start, perhaps, it is for the artist, but creations shared quickly become part of the world at large. Different lives see different shapes and colors in each piece, and so it can never MEAN just one thing. That is the most frustrating question posed- “I see your art here, does it mean this?” Your thoughts, your own dissection of a piece of art is just that, your own. I will have my own, and it will be different. We need to share our experiences through art, interpreting and sharing as thoughts blossom.
xo.
I’m IN!!! So generous of you. This is a fun piece.
The name says it all “Tintinnabulation” is full of musicality and lift-upped-ness! 🙂
Such a sweet singing giveaway!
Woooooop Caren, congrats!! The fact that it’s coming to a local friend almost makes it feel like I ‘won’ it too… almost. hehe. ;o) Eager to see you jingling it around!
Eeep! Oh I’m so excited for you friend! I didn’t see this til now! 🙂
Another amazing and beautiful piece! You work makes my soul smile!So grateful that you share your gift with the world!
<3
I believe strongly and wondrously that we are but conduits for creative and infallible energy and at whatever branch or point we connect, it is perfect circuit. Large scale or small, snail or lion, aurora borealis or single glowing lightning bug.
Merry Christmas!
As always with each piece you design, FABULOUS, when i think you have outdone yourself, you make another piece and i’m more amazed. keep it up girl.
Another stunning bit of sculpture…HUE SWOON! Thank YOU for being a daily inspiration.
I.
What we call a beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
II.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
–T.S. Eliot
Much Love!
i think that my sternum could use a wind chime…a subtle reminder to slow down when i’m caught in life’s windstorm.
Yes, please.
Sorry, that’s all I got.
what a gorgeous turquoise creation! I love depths of blue in the enamel…it resembles a verdigris pinecone…just lovely!
Beautiful… And I love that quote, esp. the last sentence. John O’Donohue is a favorite of mine. I met him years ago at a conference and he was just as lovely & soulful in person as he was in his writing.
Thanks for the opportunity to win such an amazing necklace! The colour is perfect.
I adore John O’Donohue. His books sit on a chest at the foot of my bed. I’m currently rereading Eternal Echoes, savoring little passages in between all my ‘have to’ reading. I love this passage you shared, too. It isn’t easy, staying focused on the “insignificant and difficult” tasks, especially when we get little flashes of something bigger. This is usually the time when that aspect of my ego that still has something to prove takes over and starts focusing on the bigger, more ‘important’ (popular!) imaginings. (I blame it on the shoulder pads and spandex she insists on wearing: cuts off the circulation to her brain.) They’re also the times when I fail, rather spectacularly. When I can distract Miss Too-Tight-Pants to go bedazzle something, I’m able to focus on what I can wield–marks on the page, the shapes of the letters, the roundness of words, the sounds, the images that seem to miraculously spark and come to life as words, then sentences, string together. And it’s always more than I could imagine. Always. And there’s something pretty darn beautiful in that.
I know I’ve quoted this before…”she shall have music wherever she goes.” What is beautiful is how often you share your ‘music’, in the loveliest of ways.
xxx
mmmmm… love a good thought provoking quote. there is something both equally tender & immensely powerful when the creative spirit moves through — like a rush through that wooded forest, when the animals come out & indeed, you as human, needs to disappear to let that wind of creativity rush through & seep into your bones. yummy rumination.
xxx
Simply lovely, in every way.
I have not read John Donahue before….but I will certainly investigate now!
lovely quote.
and such a beautiful piece you’ve made.
seems to me that i’m lacking a windchime in my wardrobe : )
Hi dearest Jillian,
Your generosity of spirit is one of the things I love about you.
Sending you lots of love,
Xoxoxoxo
Michele
You create the most amazing pieces lady! Simply lovely. I was reading an interview last night with Gary Snyder where he talks about the poem I shared below. I felt the twang of parallels between the quote you posted. Being open to the darkness and the wild.
How Poetry Comes to Me
It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light
Oh my gosh.
I’m going to cry…it’s just like that.
Hi…
(I’m shy) 🙂
Xo
Beth
Artists are my favourite kind of people – and my worst kind too. I’ve known some of the most arrogant and self involved “artists”… by the time I finished my art degree I could hardly pick up a brush or pencil for fear of becoming one of them.
It took ten years for me to being creating anything again.
But – now I have found so many generous, whole, giving creators in the world – I should have been stronger, or I should have sought more diligently.
Hats off to you Jillian – you are amongst the most generous and sincere artists I have “met”.
This is beautiful work indeed.
Sending much love and admiration to you!
xx
Here!
You do that so well… create, live, take the days as they come. You’re always an inspiration. I feel like i should send you a gift to that Thank YOU!
I love your work and especially LOVE this necklace! 🙂
There’s so much love and power in your work. I would feel truly honoured to wear one of your pieces.
I love your way with words and I admire your style and talent! You are truly unique,a beautiful person. Thank you for sharing your gift of words and works of art.
What a beautiful necklace, I’d love to cherish it! I also love that line about the animals coming for a drink …. kinda cracks me up because I put up beautiful white Xmas lights in the trees all around my little pond, and the little animals came out in the night and bit right through all the wire, I guess so the night COULD hold sway for that drink! Have a wonderful weekend!
GUFFAWWWWWW!!!!!!
They’re taking back the wilderness, just like the Wyoming antelope!
fantastic work Jillian, as always. I love the necklace, the color, the movement of it, and the shape especially. It looks like it would be a delight to wear.
Love Rilke and would love to give this necklace to my beautiful mother for her solstice birthday! Admire your enamel work…have a beautiful day for your beautiful soul! xoxo
J.
Your work, this absolutely included, is always so incredibly lovely. I love the idea of the forest being free from strangers – what a beautiful image.
Your words always fill my heart.
As fun and lovely as this piece is, I am not entering the contest, as I am not an equal opportunity colorista!…no no blues for me!…now, if this were orange I would be all over it…orange tin tabulation!. But…I did want to tell you about my silly connection to Rodin…they had a big show of sculptures at the art museum in ABQ…I went w. my friend Skip, and he says “be a good girl and don’t touch anything, like the sign says!”…next thing you know, I don’t know, somehow I came in contact w.the perfect knee of a shiny 6 foot tall man!…and , just as magically and quickly, I was escorted out of the great hall!…I suppose you just cannot take me anywhere!…:)..but boy, I sure loved my brush with greatness!…..
good luck here everyone!
I love your work, quietly coveting it in my little corner of the world. So original, so inspired by the natural world around you. I’d love to give your beautiful necklace a home down here in the swamps and the cypress.
So beautiful and so alive! I love your jewellery in all its pulsing variations!
Generous and vibrant!
Jillian,
Here is a small bit of my novel, which I think speaks, perhaps, of a greater beauty:
“This morning I had breakfast with my children, William and Gillian, who are seven and five, respectively, and Daisy, too, who is my wife. We had bacon, and fry bread cooked in the grease, and eggs fried in whatever grease was left. I watched William sop up the yolk with a crust of bread. I watched Gillian scrape her plate, her hair in a little topknot tied with a red ribbon. I watched Daisy, whose face in the overhead light was worn smooth like a rock under the same persistent current of worry. Even in my state I could see the simple beauty of it, and silently I asked the Lord to bless my family, even if He, or they, will never forgive me for my desertion, despite the fact that I started out sick and became a poison. Those three never deserved the trouble I beset upon them, and worse, they still loved me; and so how this can be anything but a betrayal and an unfairness to them, I don’t know.”
x
Es
Absolutely beautiful!
hi.
i so love the understated beauty in that necklace.
I love this – what great depth and color!
this is a beautiful piece that you are giving away. the quotation — seems to me to be about control and letting go. this is something i am thinking about quite a bit these days, actually; my husband and i have just separated and i feel pretty out-of-control about it. all the things i could “survey, command and judge” — my own heart and will and actions — i did the best i could. but something, i guess, remained un-ready. there is risk and the possibility of great disappointment in all creative acts, it seems… but if we do not make the effort, even after failure, to ready ourselves for beauty, beauty will never come.
I LOVE it!!! I think it needs to be around my neck so I can jingle jangle my way into my 40th year (gasp!)!!!
Wowsers a giveaway! I’ve been silently admiring your photographs, writing, and jewelry for about a year now via the blog, and I have to say I’d love to be the proud owner of this beautiful little musical instrument. I’m also moving west soon and leaving my midwestern home in Wisconsin. I’m headed toward your neck of the woods (will be living near Wilson, WY) and would love to wear this piece around my neck as I cross the dusty plains and travel westward!
What an exciting post for so many reasons. Music to my ears that you’re creating in your studio taking each day as calmly as possible. Oh my gosh. Magic will happen!
Totally loved THOSE past necklaces. Soooooo amazing. And loving your new latest enameled one!!!! ( you look great in that colour). I am seriously crossing my fingers! Thanks for the opportunity for your piece. Great quote. xoxo
I love that idea that the forest can be free of strangers. It sounds so easy.
Hello 🙂
My mom introduced me to your blog and I have been admiring your work for a very long time now. We are both artists and you have inspired us to start creating our own jewelry. Everything on your blog is absolutely stunning, especially this lovely whimsical wind chime necklace.
Thank you,
Chloe
Love your wind chime 🙂 Thanks for doing the givaway. And here’s to a wonderful weekend !
beauty is bestowed. it is not ours to own but, i believe, to be passed on. it fades with sight, but never fades when really felt.
hoping one day to own a piece of yours and call my very own.
♥
Magnificent! Your work is inspiring! xo from Northern CO
Sooo I know it’s better to give than to receive (heck, I just had a hoot hosting my own giveaway again)… but I really want to RECEIVE on this one. Righto. Your gorgeous pieces always bring out the ‘wannnnnnnnnt it’ hoarder side of my heart! ;o)
As for Rodin and beauty… I love the notion the “Truth is Beauty” and vice versa… only when things are shown in their most real, authentic, bare, exposed, transparent ways… are they shown for the true beauty they are.
Feeling twice blessed that you would ‘stoop’ to thank your fans that you already GIVE so much with this gorgeous view into your heart.world.art.soul!
xx
mel
needle and nest design
your blog is always so serene and peaceful. i love coming by and and living vicariously through your beautiful photography. Gorgeous necklace, as all your work is.
trisha @ veranellies.blogspot.com
beautiful as always –
Most excellent of beautiful days to you lovely! May you have a positively radiant day/night!!
Oh pretty pretty!
Hi! (Shy but enthusiastic one.)
Both the quote and the necklace are beautiful images and that color… my most favorite.
All your pieces are lovely ~ I would be particularly proud to wear this beauty!!!
i can imagine the tinkling sound when that little beauty swings to and fro.
lovely work… again.
xx
Hi this is the first time I have tried commenting…hope it works. I love your work and your spirit. You are such an inspiration for being so young. Wishing you the very best.
Miss Plume,
A lovely way to ring in the winter season! Your artwork captures time and space with such exactness. Thanks for sharing your talents!
I love your work so much. I work in glass but have recently been inspired, in part by seeing your creations, to start playing with enamel too. The turquoise colour is beautiful and the idea of a ‘windchime for the sternum’ just tickles me. I’ve been waiting for a piece to appear in your etsy shop that I’d know was meant for me but maybe this is it!
The beauty as ever falls from your hammers to the forest floor, like pine needles tinkling X
tintinnabulation is a magical word…perfect for this beauty – a jingly pine cone of a delightful thing.xoxo
A little bird
so blue and quick
came hopping down
my sunlit walk
his little feet
tapping along
as he went by…
he listened long
still, soft and sure
for some small bite
of bug or worm
and cocked his head
as he did so
pausing, posing…
afore he flew
to seek his meal
elsewhere along
the sunlit way
he glanced as if
he could see me
and almost grinned.
—- by me :O)
Merry Christmas!
The color looks amazing!
OH MY!
You never fail to amaze me with your beautiiful creations! It’s perfect. If I won this one, I would give it to my Mother for Christmas. She would love it too! Thank you for sharing and spreading the joy.
How I love that word, and this necklace. You’re a generous bird, Plume.
What a gorgeous piece- the color echoes within and shimmers so. The thought of tinkling when moving about my day just makes me smile. Your work is delightful!!
I saw the pictures at the top of the post and said to myself, “Boy, I wish I could own that.” And then I read that you were giving it away! How nice. Pick me! 😉
As always this is an exquisite piece.
Ring out, Ring out those Solstice Bells…your piece and its name made me think instantly of the wood, and then of the “Songs From The Wood” album by Jethro Tull. It and their Solstice Bells song have long been a favorite of mine when I’m in need of spirit lifting song.
Hello LiL Plume 🙂
I sure do hope I get to wear a pieace of your art around my neck!!
Love your words and jewels!!
Beautiful as always- enjoy the settling back in to your Idaho home!
Love the quote. Love the giveaway. Hoping to claim this little gem.
Howdy
Hi J.
As I tell my little preschool class, the forest is our playground floor.
Hurricane Sandy has turned our trees upside down, and thrown our pinecones all about.
Your necklace reminds me of a beautiful pinecone:)
Xo,
Carrie
Beautiful piece. It piqued my interest when I saw it on your Flickr page yesterday. I immediately thought of a place rich in conifers and became lost in a boreal forest dream. 🙂
Beautiful as always and I love the color!
Such a wonderful necklace – delightful as always! xx
Ooo la, la my dear, ooo, la, la indeed 🙂 All the best to you and yours this holiday season. I wish you much merry and great cheer.
all plumeage is rather musical but this piece, especially so….and magical, too!
xx
Love your enamel work as always and I think you are definitely on to something good with this! I would be honored to wear this necklace. 🙂
I love the notion of beauty (art/expression) coming when all is ready for it.
Such a little beautiful shining thing!
I love the color!
Thank you for this giveaway.
Yes please. Tinkling around my neck.
Wow –I can hear the chimes softly tinkling, enticing, in their notes of various blue..
From the quotes I think that Rodin’s art was a product of his ability to melt into purity of being while in the creative process. That incredible place fed his soul and compelled vast expression through him, uncompromised by ideas or thoughts; a place profoundly conducive to the expression of true beauty. I think we’re all uniquely capable of this but to really get there, to this ‘great beauty’ we have to let the ‘animals come to drink when the night holds sway’ — let our inner being transend the ego/mind talk to the place of ‘pure being’, then ‘the forest’ (this mysterious place where all things are possible) will be free of strangers (conflicts, judgements etc. which hinder true expression)’. Nothing can then confuse the truest and highest expression that may permeate through us.
So whoever’s treasure the beautiful chimes become let their soul be uplifted and enticed by their pure melody, to follow the natural path to the ‘greater beauty’ that transcends all, to let it’s unique expression flow through them to the fullest as well!
Hi! So much bloggy love from here!
meow.
Dear Jillian,
What a beautiful piece you have conjured yet again! I love seeing what you create, and all the magic you bring into the world! I would be honored to hold this necklace close to my heart 🙂
Love Britt
p.s. I got my tree today and it smells divine! Its nestled snugly against the head of my bed 🙂
🙂
Hi.
Thanks for a chance.
What, a beautiful, musical, exquisite piece of art! Quite nearly perfect.
I love that you have created this long lifting warm wave of kindred spirits.
The world hurts in so many ways, you are a healing energy. Thank you.
May the spirits protect you and yours.
I want to say I loved your post about hunting, I was thinking about you during whitetail season in Wisconsin. It was much different, very solitary and sedentary – waiting rather than pursuing. Saw lots of creatures up close, grouse, chickadees, a field mouse, & a red squirrel.. but only one ghostly doe. Thank you for speaking about your experience despite how controversial it can be.
Your creativity seems endless, and effortless. I don’t want to die before I get to buy one of your rings. 🙂 But that necklace is beautiful too.
Oh! Oh! It’s been a long time since I’ve said hi, so: Hi!
<3
-Stacey
your work has a lot of recognition of the all little bits of creation, putting each bit on a pedestal. love it!
Your enamel pieces have such a beautiful voice, this one quite literally. I agree with the woman above – it reminds me of pinecones. Nature flows so easily through your art.
Gorgeous necklace, beautiful color!!!
I fall for your work again and again with every new piece that slides from your magic hands! The rings which I was so lucky to receive are a treasure to me and I cannot imagine one day without wearing them. Have a wonderful december, dear plume, and send your woods and wilderness a longing wink from across the sea!
Kathrin
hello there lovely person creating lovely things.
just a lurker who decided to finally post because a) that necklace is so peaceful and tactile and b) your Robert looks like a young Gregory Peck. Jealous! Thanks for creating such gorgeous things and this blog – makes one appreciate nature and the small things in life
Your creations never cease to amaze me! This is absolutely gorgeous and thank you for sharing it so freely. 🙂
Amen for turquoise jingle jangles around the neck…heck, anyones neck!
Aloha!
Oh, this is lovely. I do appreciate the quote from Rodin (and I used to trap wild animals at night – harmlessly, for research purposes – so it resonates with me), but what could be said about it in any better words …
Incredible quote, and an amazing new piece! I’m always watching for your next blog post. I love the beauty you share.
xoxo
Alayna
My dogs have taken to waking me up at 5:45 A.M. I am not a morning person (i don’t get off work until midnight) but the upside is that I get to see the sunrise. It was a magnificent watercolor of pinks and blues today and I wish I could share it with all of you. Hats off to all the beauty in this world and those that create it. Thank you.
As always, your work is sublime. Thanks for a chance at such a generous giveaway!
I hope you, RW and all your fur babies have a joyful holiday season!
My favorite color is Tin Tin Turquoise.
XX
This is just the lift my soul needs, thank you so much!
Your work is amazing. xo
oh how i would love layers of flowers!
whoever wins this lovely necklace is one lucky person.
Your work and your words are always inspiring. Turquoise is my birthstone and favorite color! Hint….hint…..
If you look very closely to anything in nature, ANYTHING, you will see the detail that reveals God.
what if one could go to their tintinnabulum to work in their tintinnabulatory to make tintinnabulations? my goodness, i was just being silly, but, i think that is exactly what you do in your studio on particularly clangorous and resonant days!
Oh a lovely giveaway indeed, with fingers crossed, thank you for your kindness and inspiration in this space always!
oooohhhhh, pick me! pick me!
maybe Ry Ry can get one from the next batch for my birthday if this isn’t the “exact” one. I just dropped some heavy hints. Amazing work Jillian.
Oh, that pinechime is giving me wings.
tin tininey
tin tininey
tin tin ter-ee!
P.S. I saw a “Land of the Living Skys” license plate yesterday. I said hello to the occupants.
P.S.S. I’m going to go pet a reindeer now. EEK!
I saw Rodin’s work at the Maryhill Museum last spring, and found it haunting and beautiful at the same time. It was the titles that gave me that sense of haunt, as titles often do when they reveal the insides of a piece of work.
Your work is gorgeous. I know that this will find a happy home!
I’m so happy I follow your gentle spirit vicariously it lights up my day! ; )
I’d love to ring with tintinnabulation!
I feel the same way! First time in a long time I actually enjoyed my art!
I love your work Jillian.
You are an inspiration to me in many ways.
Here’s to a beautiful Advent season!
xo
Another rare beauty you have created, Jillian! I’d be so honoured to wear it!
I had no idea what ‘tintinnabulation’ meant – I was sure it was a word you made up or something to do with our beloved Tintin!! 😉 So, I looked it up in the good ole Oxford Dictionary and found the meaning to be perfect for this special piece!
Oxford Dictionary definition:
(noun) a ringing or tinkling sound: the tiny tintinnabulation, faint as fairy bells
‘Faint as fairy bells’ …. I love it! Good luck to everyone XX
It is a joy to read your posts and see all the photographs. It’s takes me away from the congested city that I live in…..just for a little while. Thank you.
Hello sweet friend! I am interested in your latest piece… and I’d like to wish you a merry December!
Beautiful and unique – as is all your work.
i’ve been trying to pounce on one of your enamel pieces for the longest time. alas i’ve always been too late. love your work, and your blog indulges my fantasy of a country life.
-trina
ENTRY BY EMAIL: Lisa G.
Sending you a big cup of warmth and wishes for health and happiness in 2013, Can
It really be December already?
tropical, like me! :))
exotic, like you.
I would love win it!
Deb
How utterly lovely this piece is! Also, I’m loving the bunnies in your recent work. I have a borderline obsession with baby hares as being a city(ish) gal I glimpsed my first one a few years ago when my boys went to a horseback riding camp. I literally had to be pulled away from the cage as I was totally smitten with these sweet little things.
All the best!
Certainly a most lovely necklace! Been exploring/playing a lot with enamels lately myself. How fun, no? Please put me in the mix!
~Karin
i keep coming back to the fact that the small things seem to matter the most. or, at least, they’re a good place to start. your work is stunning! sending good thoughts to you from drippy old oregon…
such a beautiful piece, Jillian!! i love it… thank you for a chance to win one of your stunning works of art.
Hi, fellow Canadian from Manitoba here. Love to stop in and see what you’re up to.
Anita
Oh Ms. Noisy Plume – I love the idea of getting a musical lift from the windchime striking the sternum! That necklace is so awesome! And…John O’Donohue – love him! So many passages are marked in my Beauty book…. sigh…
Thank you for your generosity – the tangible as well as always sharing something beautiful or meaningful with us.
Beautiful! I am part native american, irish and German and I live in a big noisy city. My soul is with the land. I love your oneness with nature and the land. Often, I go to your blog to visit and appreciate your love of the land and animals. Your blog is an inspiration to me and I admire your talent as an artist. Never quit creating.
A lovely piece. Reminds me of the pine cones that fall on our hay stack. I am constantly picking them out of the hay so the horses don’t have to munch around them!
Wonderful piece. I love the wind chime necklace, what a beautiful concept. Music for the soul
always admire your work and your words. thanks for all the uplifting you do!!! it is appreciated.
carla
I love love the colors in this little necklace.
Rabbit Rabbit!
Rabbit and Rilke. Raindrops and Rutabagas. Rhodopsin and Rutile.
🙂
beautiful work. i feel the soul.
What I want to say, people before me put in words beautifully. So all I can say is: je suis d’accord.
No one does it better than you my friend.
My fingers and toes are crossed for this one!
love the authentic feel of your jewelry.so organic in how it comes out of your appreciation and respect for life.:)
Oooh – I would love to don this splendid little turquoise number! My question first in response to your selected quote is this: Is the forest ever free of strangers? And then I immediately thought this: Are there strangers to the forest or just those that don’t know how to belong there? I know that’s not what this quote was about, but I honed in on that instantly.
I feel like a thief even leaving a comment in hopes of winning. I have lived by the phrase “hope deferred” many times in the past few years when it seemed like things were not going to happen like I had expected. I feel like the quote has a hint of “beauty deferred” as though there is some ultimately beautiful thing that when it appears will alter the definition of beauty. I know when things finally came to pass for me, it altered my definition of hope. Thank you for the opportunity.
beautiful as always. have a wonderful holiday season 🙂
I would love to wear such a lovely bit of music around my neck. Such a unique piece and it hangs so beautifully.
Hello Jillian~
A windchime for your sternum….absolutely lovely!
Thank you for your kind and generous Spirit!
Shy hello from Poland!:) your work is wonderful!:)
A little Leonard Cohen as response…
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
All the X’s and O’s, my girl, and well done!
WOW! My sister Jenn Robinson was totally right, your jewelry is truly amazing! She told me about you and your incredible work, how uplifting & inspiring!
Thank you,
Tracey Richards
: )
Count me in….PLEEEEEEEEEEEZE:) Love your blog.
Hello Jillian! Hope your kiln is working better than our central heating! We’ve two days of sub-zero temperatures here in Hampshire, England and we’re clearly not set up for this! 🙂
I don’t know what is more beautiful, the necklace itself, or the way you descibe it as a windchime for one’s sternum!
Absolutely lovely. What an unique way to ring in the new year.
Dearest Jillian,
What a lovely necklace and how lovely it is for you to give it away! I’m currently listening to the sounds of a table saw hacking little corners off some lovely walnut boards I’m making into christmas gifts this year (they’re to be little cheese boards when they’re done). Hope all is well with you and the Mister this holiday season!
Cheers,
Cathy
Welcome home! What a magical summer you have had. Thanks, as always, for sharing it with all of us. xo
Tintinnabulation?! What a festive word. I love the onomatopoeia. Sounds like sleighbells!
I bet that necklace jingles way down to the soul.
Thank you for your lovely work, words and thoughts.
Love from drizzly SLC.
B
P.S. I’m just about done reading Black Beauty. I read it once as a little girl, but had forgotten all about it until you mentioned it. What a beautiful little book. Thanks for the reminder!
Love the colours if the necklace, love the size – simply wonderful piece of art.
Would LOVE to call it my own 🙂
Hello! Reading this on the edge of a bunny-filled forest in England… thanks for sharing your creations, I’d be thrilled at the chance to hear the music that this one makes.
I am ready for the greater beauty to move through me like wind in the trees – the way it moves through you in your artistic process 🙂
this blog of yours always radiates this warmth
love it
Hello Gillian, I was just watching an old video of you and Robbie talking about hunting plans. I was prompted to visit your blog as I haven’t been by in a long way. Lo and behold I saw this lovely giveaway. Could it be, it was meant for me? Whoever wins it will be blessed.
I am happy to hear you are feeling less pressured. That means you will enjoy and savour the lead up to Christmas. Have a wonderful season of joy. xx p.s. I’m still very much enjoying the earrings I bought from you awhile back.
Hi 🙂
It’s always so lovely to see your new pieces and hear you talk about them.
LUSH!!!!
Such lovely words, I really DO love the stillness of the night so much.
I live in such a hectic country, and even here the animals come out and take over the night.
so beautiful these turquoise jingly bells –
and your lovely giveaway such a merry start to the Christmas season : D
amazing work as always. the color is brilliant.
i’m here, i’m here….and have been for awhile, it seems 😉
Thanks for adding so much beauty to the world, Ms Plume. Also, thanks for your unique ability to see and capture it. Your blog and art are such gifts.
generous and amazing as always. such beauty and grace in your art.
i would love to wear a piece..
Merry Christmas Jillian! I hope I get to see you when you come! I love the necklace, it is so pretty!
I hope I win. Beautiful.
That darling necklace would be a superb Christmas gift for me lil self 🙂 Have a cheerful holiday season!!
I like that quote – to me it is saying that great and beautiful things do not have to start out great and magnificent; rather they can begin as something tiny and grow, like the pine cone to the tree.
Love your blog. Love your pictures. Love your life experience that you share… I must admit, I have been checking your Etsy site nearly daily (maybe even more than once a day) in hopes of collecting a piece of the one-of-a-kind jewelry you make. Someday.
Hello lady plume! A wind chime for my sternum! Throwing my name in the proverbial hat!!
P.S. Love Rodin!
Such a gorgeous pendant. I love the colour. Thank you for sharing (this and everything else).
Hi~Such a beautiful necklace and a unique idea.
The idea of a little tiny bunny in there makes me smile.
Thanks for your creativity and generosity~Eileen
Hi.
Lovely enamel work!!! Such an original piece-beautiful colors too!
I came across your work and blog about two months ago and am thouroughly enjoying it!
I love the quote about Rodin because in a way he was creating the foundation for beauty, but in a very small way. We usually assume the ‘foundation’ is something big or has largesse, but it can be just a small humble aspect.
Your necklace: sublime.
Thank you for all that you do! You bring many smiles to my life.
All I can say is, I think it is beautiful.
This beautiful dangly reminds me of an upside down rain chain. I love it!
I love the word tintinnabulation. It sounds like a bell ringing. Beautiful – it and the necklace.
what a sweet necklace!… thanks for being cool 😀
Hello! as always, I am inspired by the beauty I find here! thank you 🙂
Thank YOU! for making something so beautiful. Yes, please count me in! 🙂
Hi, I’m afraid that my English is not good enough to describe how much my soul needs a musical lift… Hope in some luck! Thanks anyway for all the beauty you share with us.
“The other, the greater beauty must come when all was ready for it as animals come to drink when night holds sway and the forest is free of strangers” – this is wonderful, makes me shiver! As does most of your work, you are a true talent and a generous soul!
Love your work, thank you for the chance to own a piece of it!
This piece is exquisite, Jillian. I can hear the wind in the pines and smell their delicious scent swirling in the air.
So glad that stress will not be part of this season, for you, this year.
Beautiful, always 🙂
Beautiful piece 🙂
The things you make astonish me. So beautiful! One day I hope to be as free and happy as you.
I love the pineconesque delicacy of this piece.
Oh rats on the barrel head! I am here all the time but went out of town and missed the deadline. Sigh… Good luck to everyone. I’m going to go cry now.:)
Hello fellow Prairie Goddess. xo
really beautiful, i would love to wear this <3
I love your art and admire your life…. peace
apparentely, when i WIN this necklace – then i’m sharing it with my sister jenn!
very cool and very creative!! cant wait to win. 🙂
What a beauty in both color and creation. Your work makes it easy to be ‘worn daily’.
Thank you, Plume! 🙂
so beautiful! as are your words! Cheers to a wonderful holiday season!
That is such a beautiful necklace, Jillian.
I would be proud to wear it around my neck.
beautiful.
This design is just lovely, can’t wait to see how it develops!
Beautiful! I love it 🙂 Wish me luck!
A beautiful necklace, just love your enamel work! Happy Holidays to you!
Beautiful – truly wonderful colour. I’m sure it makes a merry little melody 🙂
Melinda
Well, I never win these things :-)…but I don’t want to be fatalistic, so I’ll try. I’ve been thinking about your quote, and it brought up an intuitive response, so I don’t know how ‘on the mark’ this will be. I liken it to the difference between Virgo and Pisces (opposites in the zodiac). Virgo focuses on the small stuff, the everyday things that can be seen and worked with, while Pisces is a dreamer building castles in the air. We can get lost in daydreams and looking for beauty, but never actually get down to creating anything, or, we can focus on what is right in front of us and make what we can. Then, maybe, those beautiful dreams will grace themselves in our work. We cannot go searching for them and expect them to just show up, but if we put our all into those little details, we might just find that beauty has come of its own accord.
love your words and work!!
I wish we were neighbors. Your spirit is the kindred sort that I know I would make my best kitchen buddy.
Thank you for making the world a prettier place, xoxo.
I made it just in time for the giveaway 🙂 was browsing flickr and saw it, becautiful, my friend.
It’s beautiful… I’d love a chance. Thanks!
So lovely, its thoughtful of you to share with one of us!
Hi Peach! I would be a fool not to enter this one! Love the color. You are a treat. Xx
Love it!
“the greater beauty must come when all was ready for it as animals come to drink when night holds sway and the forest is free of strangers”
so beautiful, both this passage and your tiny creation.
♥
Beautiful necklace! I was hoping for some more of that delicious plum jam, but this will do!
Hey Jill, Love the necklace! Congrats on being an aunty for the second time!
Holy guacamole my dear – there are 245 stinkin comments on here!! that’s insane! All I want to say is, that’s a beautiful quote but I’m too stupid and tired to say anything profound about it tonight, so I’ll just say, I’m really looking forward to squishing your bones in the very near future. Can’t wait to set up a tea date 🙂
xoxo
Thank you for the giveaway. And thank you for all your beautiful words and photos.
Oh!! This is the perfect giveaway. This would be my favourite necklace!
Hi! You’re amazing and thanks for the opportunity to win. Love your work and the thoughts behind it.
Hello dear sweet forest elf! Oh you generous spirit, this wonderful giveaway necklace reminds me of a pine forest smelling of velvet moss and myrrh incense lichen….
Your thoughtful writings so often leave me with a heightened sense of earth and sky and really, it takes all I have got to stay rooted in the present moment! I want to uncover leavings of nature and bundle them home but there is usually someone waiting upstairs to receive some bodywork as I read on the fly(a few daydreams MAY take place now and then)…thanks lovey, you are the best!
Congratulations Caren!! What a gorgeous early Christmas present. Now YOU shall have music wherever you go. =)
Thanks again for the opportunity, Jillian. Your giveaways are always fun, always beautiful. Speaking of beautiful, the colors of your latest creations are simply sumptuous!
Have a glorious Christmas and holiday season. Hope there’s plenty of magic in it. =)
xxx