"Prana Spindle"

"Prana Spindle"
blown glass ornament, brass bells, lampwork glass bead, crystal beads, glass beads.

A rare double-topic! One of the coolest things I found I made into jewelry. I got the ornament i used as a pendant at Rennfest. That particular vendor focuses on Faerie dust pendants and wands, and this ornament is filled with golden glitter.
I envision Prana, or Chi, as beautiful sparkling gold dust. I probably got this image from the "His Dark Materials" series, where the mysterious magic that fills the air (but nobody can see) is golden dust. This is like a reliquary, life force itself trapped within a bottle like a genie.

Goddess Necklace

"Goddess Necklace"
nuts, carved horn, ceramic, clear quartz, cowrie shell, agate, pearl, and hematite, on waxed cord.

each of the pendants on this tribal style necklace represents one of the elements- the horn feather is for air, the ceramic bead is for fire, the shell for water, and the agate for earth. The clear quartz represents the All-Mother.

Crystal Do-deca-hedron

Swarovski crystals, glass beads, nylon fishing line.

i found a pattern to make this super-sparkly Do-Deca-Hedron (twenty sided geometric figure) in a bead shop in Virginia. The ancient greeks aligned each of the old elements with a solid shape made of all the same shape- the Five Platonic solids. the Dodecahedron is made up of pentagons, and it represents the fith element, Spirit.

Heart Chakra Amulet

"Heart Chakra Amulet"
glass beads, glass pearls, "new jade" cabochon, adventurine beads on a plastic felt base.

i made this necklace as an amulet for the Heart chakra. This particular energy center is associated with two different colors: green and pink. i used a brick-stitch technique i found in a magazine to trim the cabochon.