For The Romantic Old Devil In You

I said I'd been making jewlry didn't I?  I've been beavering away, experimenting and being (I think anyway) a bit brave by working in ...silver.  I wanted to make some lovely gifts for loved ones this year and I also wanted to make something that would combine text and messages with something really pretty.

Although I've been working with silver discs too and stamping phrases and words onto them, the first lot to be unveiled in my Etsy store are these pendants inspired by the ee Cummings Poem - I carry your heart with me.  I've loved this poem for ages and it really sums up how love feels - me anyway.  That overwhelming, bigger than the both of us feeling that falling in, and being love, creates.  It also expresses how I feel about Cole. 

I remember when he was first born and being in that exhausted, glad it's all over, what is this magical creature who's been plonked on me? sort of way.  I felt this emotion that was completely, utterly, scarily, all encompassing.  The last stanza of the poem sums it up so perfectly for me:

i carry your heart with me                                     
by e. e. cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                    i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

So I've been making these pendants around the lines.  I've been using art clay silver which is utterly amazing stuff - it looks and works like clay but once it's fired it it 99.9% fine silver.  So these one's are going in my Etsy store because I think they would make wonderful Christmas Gifts - I love it when I make something (and it doesn't happen that often) that I know I'd love to receive myself as a gift.  I've been wearing my Gold Mother pendant all week and it's attracted quite a few positive comments. But more importantly than that, it means lots to me and feels really precious.  So I don't care that they aren't perfectly made with clean lines and a flawless finish - beauty for me comes from the imperfections. Which I KNOW makes me sound like some slightly new-agey, hippy type but I don't care cos I am!

It's been a funny weekend because we have no heating boiler and it's cold - plus I'm having to visit friends to get a shower!  We've got this wonderful boiler insurance from our energy supplier who promise a 24 hr response - except that it broke on Friday and they only managed to get someone out to us today and now they can't get the right part until Friday which will mean a week - a week!!! without hot water.  And I know that it could be lots worse - there are plenty of people even in this country who don't have hot running water but that doesn't stop me feeling chilly, grumpy and slightly smelly!  John's been having cold showers but frankly I'm not brave enough!  So I'm relying on the generosity of my friends for now and I'm very grateful that I can.

Jo x

Comments

[Twiggy]

Beautiful poem, really beautiful necklaces. I know how you feel, I always say that Twiglet makes my heart sing :)
Twiggy x

[vicki]

Lovely phrases on the necklaces. I'm off to check them out in your store.
Take
care
Vicki