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Mossflower Collection, Pt. I (Fourth Preview)

Mossflower Collection, Pt. I (Third Preview)

Mossflower Collection, Pt. 1 (Second Preview)

Mossflower Collection, Pt. I (First Preview)

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🌿 Important Announcement! 🌿 There is a chan

🌿 Important Announcement! 🌿

There is a chance that a few of my designs will be a smidge late. I find I am a very bad judge of how long smithing projects will take me AND I made more of each Part II design than I was originally anticipating. I wont be working with prehnite again for a few years, and I don’t know which designs will make a return next time (it is dependent on what my lapidarist is able to cut, and how many new designs I want to try).

As such, I wanted to make as many of these pieces as possible, since they might not return in a collection for a while.

So! On October 4th, there WILL absolutely be a whole grove of Fern Necklaces, Dryad Leaf Ear Jackets, Shade Garden Necklaces, and Tending Earrings (the dangly earrings with two leaves and a prehnite briolette).

What might come a little late are the Tending Necklaces, Beren Shield Necklaces, and a new ring design featuring big glowing teardrop-shaped prehnite gemstones.

In the case of late designs, I won’t have another scheduled shop update. I will just pop them into the shop as they are finished and give you a heads up here a day or so before they are available.

If there is a particular design you would like to purchase, you can always send me a quick note on Etsy that you’d like me to let you know when I plan to put that design in the shop and I can give you as much of a heads up as I am able.

Sorry for the confusion on this release! I would normally just put away anything I didn’t finish in time and save it for next time, but I want to do this stone justice since I won’t be seeing it for a little while.
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): Sunday, October 4th, 7pm EST✖️

🌱 Tending Necklace 🌱 And here is my Mossflo

🌱 Tending Necklace 🌱

And here is my Mossflower version of the design from the Honeybee Collection. A necklace reminiscent of an old-fashioned cloak clasp. When ladies and gents of yesteryear would wear cloaks, they would put a pin on both edges of the cloak below the neck, and the pins were connected by a chain. This would keep the cloak on the shoulders.

And this is another version of the necklace that echos that shape, the “Tending Necklace.” Each necklace features two clusters of unfurling leaves and neatly arranged pebbles reminiscent of cloak pins, and flowing faceted prehnites to comprise the “chain.”

In my mind, I designed this for dedicated beekeepers and early spring gardeners, trudging through muck and detritus to check on sleeping bees or sprouting bulbs with a cloak over the shoulders, because not even the rain could keep them from that which needs tending.
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): Sunday, October 4th, 7pm EST✖️

Hoping to finish up the rest of these earrings tod

Hoping to finish up the rest of these earrings today. Curving leaves and a dewy prehnite dropping below. They have the sweetest little tinkle and tremble. ✨🍃
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): Sunday, October 4th, 7pm EST✖️

I am catching the very last of summertime and sett

I am catching the very last of summertime and setting it in this final part of the Mossflower Collection for you. I am finding pockets of warmth, gathering sun-infused leaves, and plucking the last green ferns for you to carry through the winter months. 🍃✨🌿
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): Sunday, October 4th, 7pm EST✖️

Thank you to everyone who commented and contacted

I am busily sawing, sanding, and sipping coffee ov

I am busily sawing, sanding, and sipping coffee over here! Pulling leaves out of silver and catching the last of all the summer green outside my window for you to carry through the winter months.

I did want to check with you sweet souls about when I should release this final part of the Mossflower Collection.

The last day of September is a Wednesday. If you are planning to claim a piece, I would love to know if mid-week evening collection releases work for you? Or would you prefer I release on Sunday, Oct. 4? Please let me know below and I will set a date in stone as soon as possible!

Goodness gracious, what a sawing spree! I am tryi

Goodness gracious, what a sawing spree!

I am trying to make enough of these for everyone who wants to claim one. (Thank you to everyone who reached out and voted in the poll!)

Since I wont be making any Mossflower pieces for a few years after I release part II, I knew I had to make as many Fern Necklaces as possible.

The smooth prehnites I chose for these have the most beautiful colors, thorny rutiles, and feather inclusions. They are like laying on a fern-covered riverbank.

I cant wait to show you!
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): end of September✖️

Psst! You can find a few sneak peaks for the Mossf

And with that, all of the pieces from Part I of th

And with that, all of the pieces from Part I of the Mossflower Collection are either on their way to the post office, in transit, or have already been delivered.

And now, to the bench!
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✖️Mossflower Collection Release (PART II): end of September✖️

Phew! I have been working steadily packaging up or

Phew! I have been working steadily packaging up orders and I think I have about half in the mail.

I am wrapping these pieces in paper and raffia ribbon, and leaving a bit of mountain air and August in the envelopes before I seal them, all the while imagining those who have claimed them. Some are going to Australia, others to The Netherlands, some to Alaska, some to Australia, and some to even fellow Mainers!

What a gift to find myself here with you sweet souls in my corner.

There is a nip in the air today, and I am so glad

There is a nip in the air today, and I am so glad I have captured a bit of summertime for you to wear nestled against the skin under the cable knit sweaters and wooly winter jackets.

Phew! All the shipping labels are printed, shippin

Phew! All the shipping labels are printed, shipping overages refunded, and tomorrow I get to start packaging up all your pretties. I cant WAIT for you to see them in person. Like sunlight filtered through leaves and delicate ferns covering the forest floor, all captured in stone and silver.

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