StarSeed friend
Posted on Instagram on October 4, 2019
Please meet my little StarSeed friend.
He is just a little bit shy, but he becomes very chatty once he gets to know you more 💙 and he will tell you wonderful tales of far away galaxies and very tiny planets with baobab trees growing on them.
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He is completely handmade by needle felting wool fiber. His hands and legs are poseable. His knee caps are Howlite gemstone beads - a very soothing stone.
His hat is made with wool and silk, and embroidered with Czech glass beads.
Of What Is Heavy - Of What Is Light
Posted on Instagram on September 11, 2019
Wherever people go, they bring me rocks.
I trained them well 🤣
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At this point I have sea pebbles from many Italian shores, from lakes and glaciers. I also have a few from far away seas and lands.
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For a while I have been toying with the idea of heavy and light, picturing pieces with rocks and feathers.
You can say I didn't lack the rocks for it, but still, it didn't happen. Times were not right I suppose.
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Until two days ago, when my father came home from his vacation with a bag of wonder.
New beach. Different pebbles.
Some of them I am pretty sure it's agate.
I don't care. I am in love.
And the idea bloomed and the rings happened.
The gifts of the Dark Moon
Posted on Instagram on August 31, 2019
All of these pieces have been created across the New Moon.
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It has been an odd week in my little world. Everything in my relationships seemed a bit off - no big arguments, but a kind of nervousness, misunderstandings, things that left me in an odd spot.
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When I feel on shaky ground, I usually go for fusing silver.
It teaches me a lesson about what we can't fully control, and to welcome it.
Because I will go to the bench with an idea, and the unpredictable metal will have a mind of its own, most of the time.
It's so frustrating at first, until I surrender.
When I surrender, it flows.
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These rings, earrings and necklace all carry the same message...
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I am not responsible for everyone else's moods. I am not to feel guilty for every shift in their moods.
(I am not responsible of my mother's depression, or her unwillingness to seek help).
I am allowed to have my raw, rough edges.
I am allowed to not always be nice and bend backwards just to make everyone else happy.
I don't need to be comfortable for everyone else.
(I am allowed to be angry)
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I have the right to my imperfections and mistakes.
I have the right and duty to BLOOM from them and become the best version of myself I can dream of being.
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All of them are sterling silver, fused, cut, carved.
Each piece is one of a kind.
Love is the only engine of survival
Posted on Instagram on August 23, 2019
The feedback I got from you all after I wrote about the little swift...ah, you opened my heart so wide!
And from your thoughts and words, my own thoughts and feelings and understandings emerged.
And they all seeped into this ring.
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This is the kind of ring that I finish and KNOW I won't take off my finger for a long time.
This ring is all about love.
The bird that almost looks like an arrow. Pointing to true North - true Love.
The stars and the Moon and the Sun -the everything that loves you and holds you.
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It is about the things that don't go as we would like - and accepting them.
I wanted the little bird to live. I wanted to save him.
But maybe we were just meant to meet for those fleeting hours and share that heart-full connection.
Maybe it's all right this way.
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It is about that sense of helplessness, when you see someone hurting. And you want them to feel better. To change. To heal.
And maybe the secret medicine is to just hold their hands - hold them like a baby bird and whisper "you are ok, you are loved, you are not alone".
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It's about learning to direct that ability to love toward ourselves as well.
If you can love a bird a flower a butterfly a tree a painting a doll a rock an animal a person so much - then why do you find yourself so often not doing the same for you?
Why do you think you are not enough not worthy not lovable?
You are the first person that has to take the role to love you. All the others will - eventually, maybe - follow.
(Another lesson to master).