Lookbook

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Opening

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I love how time has slowed down. It has given me the pause I need to savor life. As my mind quiets down, my body joins the rhythm of nature and my existence feels richer.

I can now appreciate art and friendship more fully. I can digest and integrate my experience of the past. I am open to feel the gift of love, cry the tears I’d held back, and release accumulated tension in my body.

The truth of who I am is revealed by this perspective of time and space. 

Opening Pendant.
Handmade with ametrine and recycled sterling silver. 

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Omen

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I am fascinated by how others read my work. A single piece evokes different interpretations, which makes me think that symbols are containers for the meaning we give them. In other words, because we see what we need to see, a symbol’s greatest power lies in teaching us who we are and what we want. 

Omen Ring.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver. 

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Impromptu

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Lately, I’ve been taking all the time I need to make a piece. I usually begin with a sketch, but I mostly improvise as I work. Sometimes this leads to dead ends, others to interesting results. Not knowing where the process will take me has made my work much more exciting!

Impromptu Ring.
Handmade with fluorite and recycled sterling silver.

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Magical

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Today I received a wonderful message from Maria, in Massachusetts: 

“You are a true magician, Jennifer, your work is powerful, spiritual and superbly crafted. Every time I know I'll have a difficult day, I wear something yours, and it makes me feel so much stronger, calmer, just better... I am so grateful that you are out there creating and making the world more beautiful.”

Thank you for continuing to enjoy my work! We create this magic together.

Magical Necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Next Tuesday in my online shop.

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Expansive

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I have a feeling that everything that has happened to me was orchestrated by me. Not with my full approval, but with the force of an expanding energy that just wants to be. An energy that cares nothing for social constructs, safety or reputation. A relentless desire for adventure and creation.

I am learning to trust this internal current, even when it feels self-destructive, because self-destruction can be positive. Especially when I break false ideas I have about myself, beliefs like I'm worthless or nobody cares. I am a force of nature, and I prefer to align with it than suffer its expansive and scary ways.

Expansion necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Revelation

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Today I am excited! I’m remembering how I used to feel when I began making jewelry ages ago. The possibilities! The potential! The mystery and adventure! Anything can happen. I can create a world. I can participate. I have something to say, and as I say it, I create it. 

This is what I came to do. I came to create my world. I came to give birth to myself. My potential unfolds as I express who I am. Through writing, drawing, forging. It feels good to not avoid me. I am excited to be back on a great adventure with myself.

This is what it means to be a creator: to take what I was given, the good and bad and mold it into a story, into meaning into beauty. Beauty now being all of it, the whole of me. The depth lies in all of it, and how I’ve longed for it! I am the guide I always sought. The hidden wise crone.

On the other side of fear lies adventure. What a revelation for someone who was terrified of taking a step in any direction: on the other side of everything is something else. The next step appears after the one I take now.

Revelation necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Integrate

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“Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.”
— Swami Nithyananda

Integrate necklace.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.

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Shadow

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“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
— Carl Jung
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Stretch

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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Wild

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“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”
— John Lennon

Wild necklace.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and transparent quartz.
Soon in my online shop.

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Flow

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Lao Tzu

Flow necklace.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Nurture

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“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”
— Cheryl Strayed

Nurture Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and transparent quartz.
Soon in my online shop.

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Healer VII

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“Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Healer Pendant VII.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and fluorite.

Available this Friday in my Etsy shop.

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Healer VI

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“The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.”
— Ram Dass

Healer Pendant VI.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and tourmaline quartz.

Available this Friday in my Etsy shop.

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Healer V

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi

Healer Pendant V.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and pink quartz.

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Healer IV

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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
— Robin Williams

Healer Pendant IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and amethyst.

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Healer III

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“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
— Rumi

Healer Pendant III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and chalcedony.

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Healer II

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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
— Pema Chodron

Healer Pendant II.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and green agate.

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Healer

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“We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
— Joseph Campbell

Healer Pendant I.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and yellow agate.