An Ardent Life: The Path of Creation

Every once in a while, I will create a piece that took an interesting path to existence. I was looking over some inventory the other day and realized that I had the Strata Connector in copper, gunmetal and tinned copper, but nothing in a gold tone. So off I went in search of brash lobster clasps. This lead me to Shipwreck and these Jasper Rings that jumped out and said, "Buy me!" When I got my hands on the rings, I realized that they were a bit smaller than I had assumed (sometimes I don't think about my purchases as much as I should). The biggest problem with their size was finding something that would fit inside without too much room. When I finally found something that worked, the necklace had already begun to take shape. I had recently chopped a bone choker that had the lovely centerpiece and I found the sardonyx drop on my mat of miscellaneous beads. Knowing that I did not want the pattern to be too basic I found some sardonyx barrels that I had purchased a while back and found my long strand of tea dyed bone rondelles. The necklace was complete.

As I sat there, pondering the necklaces existence, I started picking out some random beads that went together: the sister tea dyed bone centerpiece, a piece of sliced horn, a bit of sponge coral, a button, some tigers eye along with a large chunk of carnelian and mookite. Soon I was wiring these unconnected pieces together with copper wire and attaching a larger lobster clasp. I loved the cohesive quality and the randomness. My brain starts thinking that this could be a new line of bracelets.

My eyes head back to the mat of miscellaneous beads and land squarely on a skull that I am sure belong to one of my kids at some point.

Sometimes you just have an extra skull lying around the house. What to do? Make a bracelet! This is how a very random bracelet in created with a plastic skull, a found rock that I drilled, a glass pearl, a white chunky rectangle, some mother of pearl and a few other stones strung together with tinned copper and closed with a silver plated lobster clasp. I didn't set out to make a skull bracelet, but through the path of creation this is what I have created.