Shop Schedule
Saturday, December 21st at 8pm et // The Final Harvest Collection, Vol. IV // This shop update will include Final Harvest pieces along with Lily of the Valley Vials and Domes, The Seed Pendants (poppy pods), and both sizes of the new scallop shell pendants that debuted at the Salem Night Faire. Due to scheduling conflicts, orders from this drop will not ship until January 1st-3rd.
This cornucopia of jewels is an ode to the final harvest of Samhain, and to the oldest practices associated with this time between times. When the last stalks of wheat bowed beneath the curving blades of scythes, and all the thistle down had taken flight upon the wind, when every oak donned its autumn-best, and ritual bonfires lined the countryside, farmers of olde were confronted with their mortality. On the threshold of the dark half of the year, the ancient Celts saw this liminal moment as a chance to seek ancestral blessings for the difficult days ahead. They believed that the boundary between this world and the Otherworld was at its thinnest, and that this temporary portal was an optimal time for divination, ancestor worship, and protection magic. These olde world beliefs and rituals, and the way they relate and even bleed into modern practices, are the central inspirations for this forth iteration of my Final Harvest Collection. I chose imagery and stones to evoke these concepts, which I'll delve into further as I reveal the completed jewels. These pieces are meant to serve as protection in dark days and as reminders of all that our ancestors endured so that we may thrive.
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