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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
The funeral was beautiful and full of sympathies and condolences but as the families and friends left James was left with an open casket and his sorrows. The following week the locket, a beautiful thing to remember the vibrancy of his love, had just been dropped off by the jeweler. At night he would sit holding this locket in his hands brushing her photograph with his thumb begging for her to come back to him.
Weeks went by and driven by desperation he seeks the help of a medium in the town. The medium had asked if him to bring a lock of her hair which was of coarse in his piece of mourning jewelry. After having some modifications made to the locket per the request of the medium he it became less a necklace and more a pendulum which the medium claimed would allow him to converse with his beloved. That evening he walked into the shabby dwellings of the medium that smelled of opium and tobacco and hoped. It was the first time he had felt hopeful since her passing. The medium entered the gas-lamp lit room and sat with James. "Did you bring the locket?" he had. "AND did you bring the money?" hehe, he had. "James, your wife has heard your cries. She can feel your....desperation. Stand with me James and take hold of the chain by its end" The medium had looked about the room and found parchment tearing two small bits off of the large paper and wrote one word on each "YES" and "NO" "I know you doubt my abilities. This is why I leave all communications in your hands. We will begin....." |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Each pendulum is made by hand. The chain and theme can be what ever you wish but there is one thing to note. Each of these are made using authentic mourning lockets from the victorian era. The photographs and hair are the authentic photographs and hair of the deceased memorialized in the piece. The chain and end bead may be anything you wish from 18K gold to copper. The end bead can be anything from authentic 2000 BC egyptian beads all the way up to no end bead at all. I create custom pieces and performance suggestions. I am creating the first finished product, excluding the test versions using cheap non-authentic antiques and silver and gold chain. The photo included will be one of the first pieces in the collection. As these will all be one of a kind there is no means of creating a replica. I am using my collection of mourning jewelry and antiquities to create these pieces.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
I will post tiny attached photo updates of my progress with this first piece in the collection.
Thanks for inspiring me to actually make these everyone one on the forum! It's going to be a beautiful piece for spirit theatre and the mystery performer but more importantly it preserves pieces of history and repurposes them while preserving and repecting the memory of the long since passed. |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Just got the natural baltic amber beads in and now it's time to work can't wait to update soon with pics and then the finished piece!
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5150 Posts |
You're giving me goose bumps. Creepy, cool, wonderful.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Thank you! I can't wait. Comes with only aged yes and no cards but can be used without. Working on it now. Design is finalized.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Chain and beads had to be modified now I'm using amber colored antique and metal beads from around 1930 but they asthetically are appropriate for the time period.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Mourning locket should be in Monday. Then I will be hand aging the yes no cards on heavy textured cardstock and aged antique newspaper.
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5150 Posts |
Looking forward to the next pics.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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JessicaSilver New user 49 Posts |
Lovely. Can't wait for more photos.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Thanks Jessica can't wait to share more, also of note it the fact the story for each unique piece comes with a story signed LE 1 of 1 and the actual provinance of the authentic mourning jewelry.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Looks like this will all be done just in time for a bit of Christmas Mourning
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Locket Pendulum has been finished now waiting on antique news paper to get here to finish the secondary prop. |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Victorian Seed Pearls and original tin type. Just 2 or three strands of hair on the left side. |
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afinemesh Inner circle Senseless gibberish that amounts to 2621 Posts |
Very nice, Kyle!
"I've always been mental, I'm sure of it" Boris Pocus
"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny". . .Bruce Springsteen |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Thanks! Can't wait for the card accompanyment to be finished.
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Godzilla Inner circle Tied & Untied Witches on 5316 Posts |
Yes !
It does look very nice, Kyle!
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts |
Thank you so much. I couldn't ask for higher praise than you guys! I'll keep updating until this artifact is complete.
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Stoltz Veteran user 400 Posts |
I'm a sucker for pendulums, and I really like that this uses actual mourning jewelry and antiques.
You said they come from your collection, does this imply that we might get to see the rest? |
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