:::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.

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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.