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Custom Dreamcatcher Celebrating the Life of Charlotte Gray
I was recently commissioned to create a custom dreamcatcher to celebrate the life of Charlotte Gray, who passed away from a rare genetic disorder at the age of 13. She loved butterflies and the color pink, so I made sure I incorporated them.
There is so much symbolism in this piece: white and pink feathers, rose quartz and six butterflies. I am so honored to make this to honor Charlotte and I hope ththis brings a little peace and healing to the Gray family.
ROSE QUARTZ
Love, compassion
A stone of unconditional love and infinite peace, rose quartz is the most important crystal for healing the heart and instill feelings of peace.
WHITE AND PINK OSTRICH FEATHERS
Protection, safety
As the purest of colors, white has long been associated with spirituality, innocence, and divine guidance. White feathers have been linked to the presence of angels, serving as gentle reminders that we are being watched over and protected.
Delicate and nurturing, pink feathers symbolize love, compassion, and tenderness. They are associated with the heart chakra, inspiring emotional healing and self-love.
BUTTERFLIES
Rebirth, transformation, freedom, joy
Six butterflies attached to the branch, representing each member of the Gray family. The butterfly on the right is the largest and higher on the branch than the others, representing Charlotte in her full energy, but still very much a part of the entire branch.
Gwendolyn
GWENDOLYN. I created something a little different using the leather strips I picked up in Tucson this year. My mom saw it and wants it, so it will be a gift for her.
X-Small (4" diameter) dark grey wall hanging with multi-colored leather strips and agate center
Stones: Agate
Meaning: Agate is beneficial in self-analysis and uncovering hidden circumstances that might interfere with well-being. It promotes self-acceptance and confidence, encouraging the speaking of one's own truth, overcoming negativity and bitterness of the heart, by healing anger, fostering love, and lending the courage to start over. It is useful for any kind of trauma, stabilizing the aura, while eliminating and transforming negative energies. Its cleansing effect is powerful at all levels.
Two Custom Girls
I was commissioned by my good friend, Marina to create two dreamcatchers for gifts for her friends, Katya and Sasha. Both are small (6” diameter) with faux suede.
KATYA
Two-toned light and dark grey with white and black and white speckled feathers with three rose quartz stones in center.
Rose quartz meaning: Rose quartz is a stone of pure love. It assists in awakening the heart to its purest loving potential and excels in attracting new love, romance, and intimacy which can be used to develop closer bonds with family and friends. This awakening of the heart also provides deep feelings of personal fulfillment, truth and contentment. It assists with spiritual attunement to the Earth, Universe, and the Divine which allows one to deeply link their own heart to the hearts of others.
Rose Quartz carries a feminine energy that encourages compassion, peace, tenderness, healing and balance which brings forth feelings of nourishment and comfort. This stone’s vibrations cleanse the emotions and the entire auric field, healing the heart of its wounds. It promotes the release of tension and stress, dissolution of anger and resentment, and dispelling of negative energy, fear and suspicion, providing a rebirth of hope and faith.
SAHSA
Light tan cord with white and tan feathers and agate center.
Agate meaning: Agate is a wonderful gemstone for balancing the mind, body, and spirit as well as helping you to slow down and center yourself. It transforms negative energy into positive energy. Agate enhances mental function, improves concentration, enhances perception and analytical abilities. As a stone of harmony, agate helps in the strengthening of relationship, eases anxiety, soothes and calms, healing inner anger or tension and creates a sense of security and safety as well as balancing the mind and spirit.
Encouraging a sense of reality and pragmatic thinking, agate promotes clarity in decision making, self-acceptance and confidence, encouraging the speaking of one's own truth.
Agate has a strengthening quality that can help you in your daily tasks. It will help you balance your energies and direct them appropriately. It will help you feel empowered and in harmony with yourself.
Seed of the Sol Show in SF
I’m so thankful to be a part of the “Seed of the Sol” art show at my friend DeeDee’s space, Hunt & Gather in San Francisco! We kicked off the show on Sunday, September 19, 2021 with art, dreamcatcher and music!
I have 14 pieces in the show that will stay through December. If you’re in the San Francisco area, please stop by and check out the space. There’s lots of new art and home goods to inspire and uplift you.
Custom Wall Hanging for Barb
I worked closely with Barb to create a very custom piece to hang in her beautiful Ontario, Canada home.
This gal is very large (14” ring diameter) but more like 48” across and roughly 90” in height with the branches. She wanted them to branch up and to the left. It was a challenge finding a stick that was so specific but I was able to piece two sticks together to achieve the look that she wanted. She also requested some turquoise color to be added and fortunately I had some turquoise blue leather from the Tucson Gem Show!
The center stones are a large piece of agate and smokey quartz between the branches. And the last piece was of course, saging it and setting intentions for Barb.
Kate at Home
Check out the custom dreamcatcher I made for my oldest friend, Kate (since 1983!). She just moved into a beautiful new home in Ventura with lots of light, a cool breeze and an ocean view. She said the dreamcatcher was the first thing she hung up!
Ginny’s New Home
My beautiful friend Tiffany and her even more beautiful daughter came by and took GINNY home! Tiffany is a fellow artist, and look how lovely the dreamcatcher looks alongside her painting.
I hope GINNY brings her so much love, abundance and a bit of magic into her life, it’s saged and set with those intentions!
Check out Tiffany’s art at tiffanygrahamart.com!
Shannon at home
The lovely large and in charge dreamcatcher, SHANNON has a new home in Silverlake!
She looks perfect in my friend Lynn’s bedroom! How dreamy!
Modern Wall Hanging in Silver
Meet BELLAMY. She’s a unique, modern wall hanging with three 7” diameter silver rings with black and grey faux suede and white feathers. No stones for this gal as the rings can’t handle the weight.
But her name is special. BELLAMY is a girl's name of French, English, Irish origin meaning "fine friend".
Coast to Coast Virtual Trunk Show
DARCY will be a giveaway for one lucky person
I’m so excited to be a part of the Coast to Coast Women Made Virtual Trunk Show, on Friday, Oct 30 through Sunday, Nov 1 (Halloween weekend)!
Start your Christmas shopping early for 20% OFF everything on the site along with the vendors below.
Join us for the Coast to Coast Virtual Trunk show to win DARCY and other goodies from participating businesses. See rules below.
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Earth Love Cosmetics
Clean, natural skincare products. Donating one Glowing Places body oil (full size)
Amore Studios
Unique rope and leather jewelry. Donating 1 pair of Pipa earrings...winners choice of color
Isankofa Skin Care
Eco-friendly, cruelty free, organic, natural, fair trade, and local ingredients. Donating .5 oz trio of Sleepytime, Rose and Rice water Facebutters
Home Prep Products
Natural cleaning and home products. Donating a travel trio: winners choice of three travel size sprays
Custom Wall Hanging for Mark
I made a custom wall hanging for my friend, Mark’s big birthday. He wanted something light in color to hang next to his bed that would be a nice contrast to the dark wall. I used light faux suede cord, white and neutral colored feathers layered in with five rose quartz stones in center, for love. I decided to keep this minimal, so I kept the stick off since be too much since it will hang from the light.
Mark’s bedroom, the dreamcatcher will hang from the light on the right side
My Protégé
My step-niece, Jamey came to visit from Illinois and wanted to learn how to make dreamcatchers so she can bring them home for her friends. So I picked up all the items and taught her how to wrap them (though I just ended up wrapping them), add beads, feathers, and lastly stones. She did a great job adding the feathers, I’m so proud of her for not only her dreamcatcher-making skills but also for her kindness and thoughtfulness. We made five unique dreamcatchers as gifts to her best friends.
MAXINE and POLLY Going to Santa Fe, NM
MAXINE (medium dreamcatcher in light grey with crystal quartz and fossilized squid tail) and POLLY (x-small dreamcatcher in black with amethyst center) are going home to Rock + Feather gallery in Santa Fe, NM this week!
MAXINE
POLLY
West Elm Pop Up Part III
Thank you to Robyn, Jared and the entire team at West Elm Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles for including me in the Holiday Event! The display was beautiful and more than 20% of proceeds went to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Thank you everyone who came out to support me, especially to my papa and awesome sister, Victoria who helped me work it.
A Different Kind of Wall Hanging
I was recently commissioned by my friend, Vanessa to make a custom wall hanging for her. She wanted something large and horizontal to hang over her bed and she gave me rough measurements of the ideal piece: 58” wide and 30” tall and to incorporate some gold to compliment the gold pendant lighting on either side of her bed. I was up for the challenge!
Though I’ve made this type of wall hanging before (horizontal on a stick), I’ve never made one this large and with so many feathers. I started looking for sticks that I thought would be great to work with, something fairly straight, not too curved and sturdy enough to hold the weight of the cord and feathers. I was excited to find a great stick so quickly while on a walk with my sister. I took it home and whittled it and sanded it. I noticed it was rather hollow inside and looked like some artifacts where inside. I washed it and continued to sand it hoping I could dry it out. Days went by and still some ugly gunk inside that I feared would turn into creepy bugs that would land on Vanessa’s head while she slept! So I tossed that stick and started all over in my search.
My brother-in-law, Jim, also was searching for a perfect stick to make a walking stick and he had his eye on the branch that belonged to the neighbors house but was on their side of the yard, so I convinced him to let me have it. He cut it down for me and what do you know, it’s the perfect length, roughly 60 inches wide and straight and sturdy enough. Perfecto, I was in business! I again went to my whittling and sanding and the stick was looking smooth and pretty. I let it dry before getting to the cord.
I did some calculations and came back with needing 6 rolls of 50 yards of light cord. Boy did I underestimate that one! Once I started adding it, I needed 6 additional rolls, making it 12 rolls of 50 yard cord. What a doozy! But I continued to work on it, noticing it was becoming an angled dreamcatcher, which I really liked. When I hung it up, I noticed it was not an even slant, so I cut the bottom to exaggerate the slant. Once it was exactly how I wanted it, it was time for the feathers.
I didn’t add the feathers to every single bit of cord (that would’ve been too much), but I added a lot in, all across the bottom, both tan colored feathers and white gold-tipped feathers. When I showed Vanessa my progress, she wanted more feathers, so I continued to add more and in layers so the dreamcatcher is more filled in from the middle. I added about 4 layers up and this was finished to me. I showed Vanessa and again she wanted more feathers but I had to argue against it. I told her it was quite impressive in person and it didn’t need any more. She relented and this baby was a wrap! I packed and shipped off to Dallas and was a bit nervous of her reaction when she received it. I was so nervous she wouldn’t like it and would be disappointed.
Boy was I wrong! She received it was was blown away! She absolutely loves it and gushed about how beautiful it is and how her room is complete. That made me so happy and I’m so honored to create a custom piece for my friend.
Check out the photos of its evolution.
And the finished piece in Vanessa’s beautiful room in Dallas, TX!
Wedding Gift for Bonnie & Max
Thank you to my dear friend, Marina, for ordering a custom dreamcatcher for her friends, Bonnie and Max as a wedding gift! This custom dreamcatcher in light faux suede cord, white and black and white speckled feathers with agate center, is on its way to New York!
Two 5” diameter rounds and 46” in height.
Thank you, West Elm DTLA
I had a great pop up at West Elm Downtown LA this past Saturday, July 20. My wonderful sister, Victoria assisted me all day and my best friends all came down to support me and make purchases. There was not too much foot traffic, but was still happy with the event, meeting people and making connections.
Thank you the great team there including Stacy and Geo (who also made a purchase), Bernice, and Frank to name a few! I’ve been invited back for another pop up on September 14, 2019. Hope to see you there!
Sonoma Style
I recently visited my friend, Jen, in Sonoma and was delighted to sleep in this beautiful, peaceful room in her home, where her custom dreamcatcher (that I made for her for her birthday over a year ago) is hanging. I slept like a baby!
Custom Wall Hanging for Grisha
I made a custom wall hanging for my friend, Marina last year for her birthday. She loved it so much that she recently ordered a custom piece for her brother, Grisha, whose birthstone is amethyst.
Amethyst is one of the most spiritual crystals there is, it promotes a love of the divine and encourages spiritual wisdom. It brings a sense of peace and contentment, with a calming effect that reduces anger, fear and impatience. It can promote inspired dreams and dispels nightmares. Helps to enhance memory and stop anxious thoughts. Amethyst promotes our sense of spiritual awareness and contentment and is useful for cleansing the aura and absorbing any negativity.