Art Spiral

Well, it's time to start updating this blog with my work for the past few months!

One of the spirals I've been working on is an Art Spiral. For this spiral I am creating glass art elements for Druidic themed necklaces I will be creating. The three necklaces I will definitely finish before the end of the year are ones based on the three Druid Elements: Earth, Sea and Sky. I will post pictures of each as they are finished and as I have time to set up the special lights needed to photograph them. (Glass is notoriously difficult to photograph.)

Others I will create as I have time are for specific holidays: one for Imbolc, one for Beltaine, one for Mabon, one for Samhain. I also plan to create a Solstice and Equinox necklace for those times of the year. Each will have a varying amount of art glass, as well as some commercial glass and some metal elements and semi-precious gemstones. Sea, for instance, has hollow "bubble" beads made from Bullseye's lovely sparkly Blue-Green Algae glass, plus silver charms representing the various forms of life in the sea, some largish light gold pearls, and other spacer elements. The focal is a piece of blue-green fossil coral that almost exactly matches the Bullseye glass.

The neat thing about the three Element necklaces is how they will tie into my Magic Spiral. In the Magic Spiral, you are asked to place intentions into three stones - so I chose stones for my three Elemental necklaces for that purpose. In this way I can tie the two spirals together and create a truly unique piece of ritualwear for me to use whenever I like.

Sea is finished, but still needs to be photographed. Earth is about 3/4ths finished, and I hope to have it completed within the following week. Sky is about 1/2 completed, and I plan to have it finished by Thanksgiving. I will be taking pictures of Sea this weekend for this blog, and uploading it and all the other work I've finished that I wanted to share.