“A Study in Verdant Light”

There are moments, rare and delicate, when the heart seeks neither grandeur nor perfection, but something simply true. This pendant, born of late nights and trembling hands, is not a declaration but a quiet confession.

The stone—Dahlia turquoise, deep as a forest dream and shot through with rivers of gold—was a find that stoped me mid-step. Not because it was loud or brilliant, but because it seemed to remember something I had long forgotten. Wrapped in warm copper wire that took on the sheen of old sunlight, and paired with a singular piece of hand-cut green glass, it became something... else. A small rebellion against the ordinary. A reminder, perhaps, that beauty often lies in tension—fragile and electric—between wildness and intention.

I crafted this piece during a soft rain, the kind that taps on windows like a lover unsure of their welcome. I remember stopping to watch droplets gather in the garden, hanging on the petals of a dahlia just before they fell. This pendant carries a fragment of that moment. Of waiting, of wondering if the heart dares to speaks first.

To wear it is to wear a question: Who are you when no one is looking?

Thank you, as always, for letting my hands tell they’re little stories.

— With care, from my bench in Ballarat.

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