New Jewelry — Page 5

The Merry Butterfly Dagger

June 17, 2011 by The Noisy Plume

This necklace is from the Honoring Remains Series I’ve been working on. It’s built of sterling, 22 karat gold, iolite and a section of Idaho mule deer antler. It’s wickedly lovely, gently brave, naturally extraordinary…….and every other nice juxtaposition you can think of.

Filed Under: honoring remains series, New Jewelry

Kind of like a full clutch…

June 17, 2011 by The Noisy Plume

This ring is built of one river polished stone collected on the South Fork of the famous Snake River here in Idaho, aquamarine, pearl and sterling silver.

Gosh!

Filed Under: New Jewelry

Twisted Root

June 10, 2011 by The Noisy Plume

You know those twisted roots

laying so carefully on the forest floor

spun by conifer…

spun by tongue….

I watch where I step.

If I find myself tangled,

tripped up in the lies,

I unveil that bright thing in the depth of my chest

and find my way with the Light.

The twisted tongues weave their twisted roots.

There’s a light I wear that pushes truth through.

This little beauty is built of

an original casting and pearl. It’s thick with texture, gorgeously flowing and organic in form.

There’s a dash of the holy here.

One of a kind.

Filed Under: cast, naturally occurring objects, New Jewelry, real life

Lothlorien Branch

June 2, 2011 by The Noisy Plume

From the Naturally Occurring Objects Series.

Built of one solid, cast sterling silver branch-like object (that I originally sculpted) and 22 karat gold.

…like a small branch,

pulled loose by the wind,

sifted by the breeze

and clattered into the shock of

stillness on the forest floor.

I am still.
I am calm.
I was there.
I am now not.

Filed Under: 22 karat gold, cast, naturally occurring objects, New Jewelry, sterling

Honoring Remains

May 24, 2011 by The Noisy Plume

Idaho mule deeer antler cross sections, sterling and akoya pearl.

After the tufts of fur and hide are gone,

after the sinews of back strap and rump have been consumed,

all that remains is bones.

The wings of a pelvis,

the shapely rounds of femur ends nibbled by voles

and these long, pronged antlers, grooved

and echoing with velvet ghosts,

ringing with the lusting war of the rut.

To honor the remains.

To (further) breathe a dash of immortality into these

ruins of white.

To remember the long legs that once wove

through willow, sage and mountain stream.

I do.

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I made these earrings yesterday.

The woman who wears them will be the wildest one!

Filed Under: antlers, New Jewelry