New Product: Bewitched Brambles Necklace

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"The peasant's tale awoke a fire in the heart of the young prince; he believed without wavering, that the sleeping princess in the castle behind the wall of spines and brambles was reserved for him, and for him alone. With this determination, he resolved at once to go. He had hardly begun to think of how to pass through the spines and brambles, when these spines and brambles parted, and separated from each other, as if to acknowledge the prince's royal right to pass through..."

--from 'Sleeping Beauty' by Charles Perrault, 1696

My Bewitched Brambles necklace features a luxurious, hand-stitched, triple-rosette center of blue and black satin ribbon, lace, and gimp trim 'halo'. It is embellished with a black filigree centerpiece, blue glass sequins and an enchanted tiny black satin rose. Sparkling wire tendrils of glass bugle beads, Czech crystal beads and Swarovski crystal drops extend across the shoulders and partly up the neck to close at the nape with an adjustable-length chain and parrot clip.

Bewitched Brambles -- Blue Satin Rosette and Crystal Swirls Necklace

Listed one day late thanks to Etsy hacks mysteriously disappearing with the recent changes there (argh!), this piece is the first of 22 gothic-fairytale pieces I'm designing for an upcoming photoshoot. I know if it sells I'll have to make it again, but I was a bit too excited not to share it right away. ;)

This weekend is a MIGHTY weekend (you'll know what I mean next week!) with a million projects in the works and a total house-transformation, shortly after which will require a total house-cleaning as my mother is visiting from Atlanta again, just for a few days. Hopefully, from that I'll be having another yearly Tour of My Home multi-post photo series like I did last April, though the house is currently not at all close to what Maiki and I envision it will become in the next few years!