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Nocturne Collection, Part I

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Violet Linings, Part I (Second Preview)

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Everything is in the shop, spooky friends and pump

Everything is in the shop, spooky friends and pumpkin pals! 🎃🕸👻🕷🍁

Just one more hour, ghosty friends! 👻🎃🍁🕸🍂🌙

🕯 Memento Mori Necklaces 🕯 Here are some of

🕯 Memento Mori Necklaces 🕯

Here are some of the Memento Mori Necklaces in tonight’s collection release! Which is your favorite?
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

🕯 Nocturne Collection (Part I) Blog Preview is

🕯 Nocturne Collection (Part I) Blog Preview is up! 🕯

I have just put up a nearly full preview of tonight’s offering. It includes some information about pendant prices, earring sizes, inspiration, and even a sneaky little preview of Part II.
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): TONIGHT at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯 Each earring has

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯

Each earring has a single hand-forged poppy, with delicately curved petals and shadows collecting in the corners, and a flashy labradorite drop.

Some of the earrings pairs feature labradorite that are freeform and not perfectly matched, a little wonky like the tipping tombstones of a very old graveyard. Others feature matched teardrops in a deep flashing blue.

There are two size ranges of earrings in tonight’s collection release. There are smaller ones, like the petite ones shown here. Those pairs have smaller poppies and stones, and are mostly around 25mm (1”) from top to bottom (not including the earwire). The larger earrings, like the ones with the deep blue teardrops, have larger poppies and drop around 35mm. The size indicator will be in the title of each listing, and the approximate measurements will be included in the listings.

Which do you prefer? Delicate dangle earrings or bold chunky ones? I would love to know!  
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): TONIGHT at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

Tonight, tonight, ghosty friends! A few things t

Tonight, tonight, ghosty friends!

A few things to keep in mind!

🍁 PLEASE double check your shipping address on your Etsy account before the release to make sure it is correct before you place an order.

🔮 Remember! Etsy won’t reveal my new listings for you right at the release time, you have to refresh and reload my shop page, sometimes a few times, before they all show up. It even does that for me to see all my new pieces!

🕯 Etsy is often slow with populating my shop after I publish my listings, I believe because I list so many pieces at once! I have been told this is because they work out of the cloud now rather than dedicated servers.

So if you want to try for a piece at release time, start on the home page and move through the pages from there. If you click on the collection section on the left, sometimes it takes 15 minutes or so for listings to show up. A very strange glitch, but it happens. Refresh often!

🌙 Make sure you look at all the photos of the pieces you are looking to purchase, because I try to photograph these pieces from every angle, in my hand for size reference, and in natural light, so you can see exactly what you will receive. I want you to be sure you are purchasing the perfect pieces for you!

🦇 That being said, an item isn't "yours" until you complete checkout. Meaning that other people can purchase items you are looking at, or that you even have in your cart. This is an Etsy feature that I cannot change.

👻 My advice is that if you have a piece you have your heart set on, complete checkout with that item first. And then go back for the other pieces you want. Checking out separately allows you to claim your pieces more quickly, and you have less of a chance of a piece being scooped out of your cart.

🎃 In the days following the release, I will refund any shipping overages for those of you who place more than one order. I will be shipping out all the Part I orders together though, that way I don’t get confused when it comes time to ship Part II orders.

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯 Here is an exampl

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯

Here is an example of one of the larger earring pairs being worn. Deep flashes of blue atop smokey grays and dusky browns, and a single poppy for remembrance above each stone.
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

"If I had my life to live over again, I would form

"If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life."
- Muriel Spark
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

🕯 Memento Mori Necklace 🕯

I know I shouldn’t choose favorites, especially since it makes it so hard to let go during releases. But THIS gemstone, my goodness.

This stone looks like autumn distilled. As though a pumpkin-headed alchemist pulled October and November from the world and mixed them in a giant cauldron with raven feathers and slate tombstones, maple leaves and night frights.

A potent token of autumn.
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯 What do you think

🕯 Memento Mori Earrings 🕯

What do you think, my ghosty friends?

I wish I could have gotten all the labradorite gemstones to flash together, but I suppose this is how it always goes when trying to take a family portrait!

Do you have a favorite pair?

(To take a closer look, you can zoom in by pinching in the Instagram app.)
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

Here is one of my spooky Memento Mori Necklaces th

Here is one of my spooky Memento Mori Necklaces that will release this Wednesday. (I will take a group photo today!)

For this design, special coffin-cut labradorites are the feature, with single leafy poppies laid at the foot of the graves (the poppy means "peace in death"), viney twist borders wrapping its way around the stones (nature's reclamation), and the words "memento mori" inscribed on the backs (Latin for "remember death"). 🕯

There will only be about two dozen of these necklaces, in a wide range of sizes and each color unique.
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

Just looking at all these tiny poppies makes my ha

Just looking at all these tiny poppies makes my hands hurt! Tiny edges to sand, wrinkles to set, centers to place, petals to curve. They are a labor of love, indeed.

Memento Mori pieces will drop into the shop this Wednesday! (Well, as long as I can get all my photographing/listing-writing/chain-making ducks in a row.)

If you’d like to see what the necklaces will look like, zoom back through to my last Nocturne Collection from a few years ago. They will feature coffin-cut labradorites with single poppy bouquets at the bases.

The earrings will feature shimmering labradorites dropping from poppies.

Pictures soon, I promise!
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✖️Nocturne Collection Release (PART I): Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm EST in the Etsy shop✖️

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