Island inspired necklaces and bracelets made from locally sourced materials, made by a small community of artisans with disabilities. Made with thought and intent, meant to bless, guide and protect the wearer.
Vision Boards: Manifesting
EatPrayLOVE Trunk Show
December 21st which is the Winter Solstice StoryandMyth Jewellery will be at SHAKTI mind body fitness, 5 Bedford Park Avenue. Shop and learn about the collection from 10am to 7pm.
Eat Pray Love Jewelry Collection
Traveling 1/2 way around the world I found myself upon my return home whole. I was in the former colony known as Ceylon. It was there in that magical place of elephants and temples that I would fall in love with a place and people. And see gems of the earth in all the colours you could imagine. There was the orange robes of the Buddhist monks, the smell of incense, lemongrass and sandalwood. Wonderful fresh meals, high tea, time, time enjoyed with new friends, swimming in the Indian Ocean feeling her power and knowing it was a direct connection back home to the Caribbean Sea. I am finding that peace again here in the West Indies through yoga and meditation. And I am happy that universal consciousness is here. While here I went in search for some cool secret island finds. The EatPrayLove Jewelry Collection uses red coral wood, dark mahogany wood stain beads, job's tears, bronze pendants and charms, semi-precious stones and handmade tassels in the colours of travel. It is my interpretation of that spiritual journey here.Workshops at The Wortley Home
Blessing Beads: Impromptu Photo Shoot
Blessing Beads: My secret island find they are protective and magical, of mother earth. This impromptu photo shoot happened at Helshire Beach with friends who flew in to support New York performance artist Jodi Lynkeechow who performed at the Rex Nettleford Caribbean Art Conference. Several Blessing Bead necklaces are layered on. One uber long consisting of 108 beads the other resting at a comfortable 32" in length as seen on Jodi who didn't mind showing her face for these impromptu pics.
Shop Story and Myth at the Shakti Shop
Story and Myth Malas are now at the Shakti Shop: 5 Bedford Park Avenue, Kingston 6, Jamaica. These consist of 108 Blessing Beads hand strung with love from mother natures perfect bead known as Job's Tears. The Blessing Bead is tear shaped and feels like porcelain when you tap it against your teeth. The Blessing Beads are ethically sourced from the island and the OneHeart pendant is cast in bronze.
Shakti-Yoga in the Garden
story and myth
Shakti is also the agent of all change. On the right
Sea Goddesses: Summer Solstice
In parts of Brazil She is honored as the Ocean Goddess at the summer solstice.
Friday coming the Key Biscayne Goddesses in Florida will gather at the ocean to usher in the Summer Solstice.
TRINIMAICA-Trinidadian and Jamaican Designers-Caribbean Fashion Week 2011 Night 2
Trinidadian designer Nigel Eastman of Zadd and Eastman, used my black coral jewelry with combinations of smokey quartz and hematite on the runway to accompany his fabulous designs at Caribbean Fashion Week in Kingston. Pulse super model Sedene Blake pictured centre walked the runway in one of my jewelry pieces. Sedene Blake's clients include: Ports 1961, Valentino, Vivienne Westwood, Gap, Carolina Herrera, Banana Republic, Costello Tagliapietra, House of Holland, Custo Barcelona - an she is in my necklace! Kristie Stephenson for Story and Myth
Coral, loads of it is my guilty pleasure, I love piling them on and layering several pieces at the same time. They are very warrior goddess to me, the more I pile on the heavier the necklace becomes and it feels like armature -its empowering. You know if I had to I could really use it as a weapon as it could knock a potential attacker out. As a saavy auntie it is not nephew or niece friendly for the hand held little ones, but it is a way to keep their attention on you.
Coral Facts
Coral is more popular than ever for jewelry, despite trade and harvesting regulations related to the importance of this creature to the ecosystems of the world. Here is some information about coral, including a description of different colors, coral care, and some coral lore.
Coral is a natural gemstone derived from the skeletons of a marine animal related to jellyfish and anemones. Coral polyps live in colonies and some types of coral form reefs, which are home to approximately 25% of the species in the ocean. Coral is composed primarily of calcium carbonate and gets it color from natural pigments such as carotene. Coral is not used fresh from the ocean, but goes through a serious of processing steps before it is used for jewelry. These steps may include chemical treatment, tumbling, heating, sawing, and polishing.
Colors of Coral
In addition to coral substitutes, which include plastic, glass, and seashell, genuine coral is often dyed to resemble a more rare or desired variety. However, natural coral that is suitable for jewelry is found in many colors.
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Caribbean Fashion Week: Spinning & Weaving
Story&Myth Jewelry BLOG: Archetypes in Drawing and Painting inspire Jewelry...: "Mother archetypes helped to inspire this silver pendant. Stories of earth mothers and wise women who weave the world and create life, insp..."
Pomegranites Inspirations: Eternal life, Marital headresses, jewels from paradise
Prized for its sturdy skin and juicy arils, the pomegranate became one of the first cultivated fruits and was so essential to daily life that it gained near mythical status.
The pomegranate features richly in mythology, as a symbol of birth, eternal life, and death, owing to its abundance of seeds and ability to 'bleed'. The deep red skin of the pomegranate was thought to link it to the blood of the earth, a taboo colour which also gave the fruit an association with forbidden desire.
From the Middle East the pomegranate made its way to China via the Silk Road, and on to India and Palestine, where its legendary status continued to grow. The pomegranate became known as a precious fruit bringing peace, whilst, according to legend, it was believed that one aril in every pomegranate had descended directly from Paradise.
Ancient lore has it that in Greek and Egyptian mythology the pomegranate was revered as a symbol of both immortality and the passing of the seasons. Egyptians often buried pomegranates with their dead, whilst King Tut took a silver pomegranate vase into the afterlife with him.
The original Phoenician settlers of Carthage, on the coast of North Africa, introduced the pomegranate to Ancient Rome where it was known by the name Punicum Malum or Phoenician apple. Pomegranates were depicted in mosaics, and married women wore headresses made of pomegranate twigs to show off their marital status.
By the time it reached Europe, the pomegranate had become so steeped in mysticism and folklore that in many ways its nutritional value had almost been forgotten. Instead the fruit became the fascination of artists and writers and featured in religious, mythological and heraldic texts and imagery.
During the Age of Discovery, Spanish missionaries planted the first pomegranate trees in the New World but it was not until the end of the 20th century that the West embraced the fruit as a healthy and versatile food source.
Below is the myth of the Greek goddess Persephone and the pomegranite.
Persephone was the daughter of the goddess Demeter. One day Persephone was dancing with her friends in a sunny meadow, having a good time, picking flowers.
Suddenly Persephone's spooky uncle Hades burst out of the ground and grabbed her and pulled her into his chariot! He took Persephone (purr-SEFF-oh-nee) under the ground to his kingdom, the land of the dead, and told her that he wanted her to be the Queen of the Underworld and marry him.
Persephone was very sad there under the ground. She wanted to go up into the sunshine again. But Hades would not let her. Persephone was so sad that she would not eat nor drink.
But Hades said he would only give Persephone back if she had really not eaten or drunk anything from the land of the dead. Persephone had not eaten much, but it turned out she HAD eaten six pomegranate seeds. So they agreed that Persephone could spend six months a year above ground with her mother, but she would have to spend the other six months in the land of the dead with her uncle/husband. And that is how it has been since then, according to the story: that's why we have the seasons.
There are a lot of Greek and West Asian stories that are like this one. Compare for instance the story of Dionysos, or the story of Tammuz or Attis from West Asia, or Osiris from Egypt, or the story of Jesus, who also died and rose again from the dead.
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