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Are these unabashedly boho to the core? Absolutely. But these are the real deal: skip the drop-shipped simulacrum and shop local: marigold from the community garden blossoms on these drops made from reclaimed maple veneer stock from the neighborhood ukelele-building club. For real. 

 

Originally, I was going to turn these a vibrant green, but when I saw how good the yellow brought out the chatoyance of the maple, I left perfection alone. A simple tung oil finish preserves these beauties while leaving no trace. Wood beads from the stash bring a bit of extra earthen funk to your fancy. Hardware is nickel-free oxidized brass with a niobium, allergy-proof earwire. 

 

PS for those of you who think your skin color means you "can't wear yellow" - the earthy undertones of the wood temper the yellow to almost a neutral. I wear my marigold hoops several times a week, and I'm a cool-complected Irish lass. 

 

Petroleum free

 

Dimensions: 1" wide by 3" long. 

Beaded Luminous Golden Drops

SKU: DS-02-04
$63.00Price

    Tender Fire Studio is part concept, part my tiny basement apartment full of art supplies and very little furniture, and part shared workshop. I work, play, and love on land that was stolen from the Pocumtuc people, settled by colonizers, and continues to be sold for profit in the speculative real estate market for the enrichment and comfort of the owning class. Decolonizing my practice is an ongoing study of how I can be in right relationship to the land, animals, and plants of this place while embracing and acknowledging the often-scary precarity and vulnerability of a life given to the pursuit of soul and the sacred rather than the settler concepts of security and safety. I give thanks and praise to the rivers that form this Connecticut River valley, to these sand hills and the ants that dwell here and find my kitchen window so inviting, to the many birds and their dawn hymns, and to the forests: o the trees, the ferns, the damp stones and the deep deep woods, you are the mercy of the sacred in cellulose flesh.


    Tender Fire Studio  @tenderfirestudio
    tenderfirestudio@gmail.com
    PO BOX 9359, North Amherst, MA 01059

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