With summer comes outdoors comes nature comes forest comes faeries comes fairy rings...
...comes rocks and crystals and gems and shiny silver...comes fairy ring bracelets...
These were a spontaneous happening, a handful of pretty gems, and beads, some crystals and a few handmade glazed ceramic beads as well (I SO love those!) And silver wire. Threads and threads of silver wire, turning and twisting and sometimes braiding...
Touched off with molten silver solder, magical within itself, so formable and shapeable, liquid to solid.
What is a fairy ring?
Jane from Mushroom Appreciation explains it best:
"The English believed that fairy rings were where fairies came to dance and celebrate, the mushrooms of the rings were used as stools for the fairies to recuperate during the evenings festivities. One European legend tells of the origin of these rings as being burned into the soil by a sleeping dragon's tail."
In place of mushrooms I used various gems to create my own version of a fairy ring. I gave this one an antique silver finish by applying a black patina to the shiny silver and then buffing it.
Some of the gems on this one include Amazonite, Mookiate, Pink Peruvian Opal, Carnelian, Quartz Crystal Points...
These are available while they last in my Etsy shop. I hope you like them!
Have a great week!
Laura
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