SOLD!

I had the treat this week of shipping the Embellished Goddess off to a friend of mine! She saw it on Etsy and had to have it. I hate taking money from friends but I couldn't be more thrilled that she will be wearing it. I met her five years ago when I moved to Charleston to go to the American College of the Building Arts. We only knew each other briefly but she's one of those people you get to meet every once in a rare while who just fits right into your heart and stays there.
And obviously she has spectacular taste! I like to send extra little treats off to my buyers and I had fun putting her's together. I packaged this necklace beautifully in a paper mache jewelry "casket" that I bronzed and oxidized in a matching blue green patina. I made a backing for the necklace out of some heavy Halloween paper and the lid has a window so you can see it in there waiting to be opened, a creepy little surprise!

I was reading up on coffins recently and learned that the word "casket" was hijacked by the growing undertaking industry as a churched up word for coffin. A casket is a box containing jewelry. This means I get to call my jewelry boxes caskets and I won't be wrong! I made this oval casket from a paper mache box painted in the same fashion, but with a plaster cast of a small skull on the lid. All the nooks and crannies of the plaster skull took the patina beautifully. You can just barely see the "bonus" surprise in the box on the left...



I tied both caskets up in sheer black ribbon. Everything looks good in a black ribbon.
I like t0 send everything off in style, never underestimate the value of great packaging.

Monday I will post my very first giveaway. Be sure to comment to be entered into the drawing to win the surprise item I will have posted Monday! Winner pays no shipping as long as they live in the continental US. Shipping shouldn't be too bad; remember good things come in small, gorgeous packages.