I made these for a friend who loves the colour purple. I really enjoyed trying to make both pairs Art Deco-ish, and bold and sassy like my friend. Some people have an ability to carry off dramatic and fashionable accessories, she is one of those delightful people!

Another project--a custom box and bag for the Mandala Astrological Tarot.

This is a necklace in progress that carries a deeper meaning for me, and prompted me to buy the pendant for myself.

The inspiration comes from a snippet in a Joseph Campbell biography by Stephen and Robin Larsen.

During a seminar Campbell was conducting, a woman approached him and said she had a poem in her but couldn't write it. Campbell told her to "Cut your head off." It was a mythological reference to Medusa who had conceived a child with the god Poseidon but was unable to give birth because Athena had cursed her for conceiving the baby in her temple. Medusa became a Gorgon, a monstrous creature with serpent locks whose gaze turns men to stone--you can't bring forth what is pain.

When Perseus cut Medusa's Gorgon head off, there came the birth of her child. Her child was the winged horse who was the patron of the arts. The woman who had spoken to Campbell about her creative rut, came back a couple of days later with a poem she had written and a small image of Pegasus the winged horse to hang on a necklace. So "cut your head off" and let it go, give birth to ideas and creativity.