water inspired

  i am savoring the comforts of unlimited time at home again - time to look out the window because i'm not headed out the door - time to watch how the sunshine spills into the eastern side of the house when it pops up over the mountains across the way, time to watch the sunshine as it crawls across the wooden floor and ends up in the western part of the house, coming through the window above my bed.  having all of this time to observe as i putter about with my daily routines (thank god for routines) has been an especially cherished gift:  i've become aware, again.  i am smelling and hearing and feeling, physically feeling, so many things around me - the breeze, the warm wood on the sun covered deck, the crunch of leaves under my feet, the rattle of leaves that still cling to the branches of the maple tree out front.  quiet things.  simple things.  things that don't demand, things that don't make me rush.  lovely things.  it has been a sunny week, and in the midst of all that sun, i managed to pull together a necklace that celebrates the intoxicaton of rain.  yes - rain.  when i was unpacking (and uncovering, shoving out - more on that later) the little boxes of trinkets i carried with me to colorado, i ran across one of my sterling and resin word charms that i made probably five years ago.  a simple thing, this charm - a round, deep bezel with tea stained paper, typewritten with the beautiful four letter word telling of water that falls from the sky. 
i love seeing how my pieces come into being.  they are never planned, are not sketched out on paper before they are made; they come into being, bit by bit, relic by relic, and this entire piece unfolded from that one round little charm.  next?  two thin tabs of antique ivory, that once covered piano keys.  this time i've actually etched an X and an O across the front - like scrimshaw, i guess, in modern times, only this time around there is no ship, no kingly whale at sea.  within the ivory covers is a little found word poem, something i put together with words clipped randomly from antique book text, protected under mica.  then, raindrops of gemstones below.  the pendant hangs from wonderful vintage velvet the color of thunderclouds, a silvery luminous grey. 
looking at these pieces i make, the ones inspired by quiet hours observing the weather, the seasons, the changes in the trees and water and sky that surround me, i am able to see how strongly i'm affected by the beautiful acts of nature.  i worry sometimes that the inspiration will wane, that creativity will dry up and blow away.  i need to remember, then, how i stood this morning at the river, picked up a stone, and imagined it holding all my worries, all my fears.  and imagining that, i threw the stone into the middle of the river.  fear, be gone.  worry, flow away with the river's waters to the sea...
 xo

Comments

[sandra]

ooo my...it is -----------(no adjective to explain)
But, it leaves me longing for something I can't put my hands on...a sense of everything in and encompassed by rain...

[Kathy VK]

love love love the mix of materials in this one ...
xo

[Tina in McLeansville]

i love envisioning you throwing those things into the river to wash far, far away. as long as there is nature, you will have inspiration...it's your eternal flame, i think. hugs....xo

[Loretta a/k/a Mrs. Pom]

Very lovely. I am always awed by your text pieces.

[susan]

I love both your lovely necklace and the soft pattering of the rain.
Thank you for this post.

xo dusan

[V-Grrrl @ Compost Studios]

Is this for sale?