Featured Item: Sterling Silver Drop Pendant

STERLING SILVER DROP PENDANT
handcrafted by Practical Art artisan Christy Burson

Elegant and organic, this pendant is beautifully balanced to dress-up or dress-down, to be worn solo or layered. Everything from the rolled and patinated closed drop form, to the natural open “O”, and the asymmetrical silver nuggets along the chain, everything was a careful choice by this skillful artist. Truly, even the thickness of each piece, the way each piece links to the whole, the overall weight and proportions, where it falls on the neckline…. more wonderfully executed decisions. A thoughtful creation makes a thoughtful gift.

PRICE: $84

A GREAT GIFT FOR:
Holidays
Birthdays
Just Because
Anniversaries (with earrings to match!)

 CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE! 

www.practical-art.com

Featured Item: Glass Seeker Pendant!

GLASS SEEKER PENDANT!
handcrafted by Practical Art artisan John Ryszka II!

Sticks of glass. Can you believe it?! This amazingly life-like lookin’ eye started as separate sticks of colored glass. It’s so life-like that it is actually looking. Seeking, to be exact.

Practical Art artisan John Ryszka II creates these seeker pendants with small symbols on the back to indicate what it is that this little talisman will help you locate in your life. This blue-eyed beauty features a small glass yin-yang embedded in the back of it– it will help you find balance.

Need to find love? fortune? extra-terrestrial life? John makes symbols for those too.

PRICE: $45

A GREAT GIFT FOR:
SEEKERS
and, People Who Like to Have Their Jewelry Commented On

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE! 

www.practical-art.com

Staff Pick O’ The Week: Rock Pouches!

I enjoy writing quick little blog posts about items whose complete magic isn’t immediately apparent.

Bits of art that are less about the objects themselves and more about the experiences they cultivate.

These small 2″ x 3″ stitched fabric pouches are created by Practical Art artisan Jennifer Gross. They are ‘rock pouches’ and they owe their existence to a lovely family ritual.  Over the years, Jennifer’s family has ventured out together on hikes through the mountains and woods, and all along the route they stoop to collect small, interesting rocks.  To make the collecting process a little more special, Jennifer created small pouches that get tossed over the head and worn about the neck.  Each has its own unique identity comprised of dyed fabrics, shells, corals, beads, threads, sculpted ceramics and other bits that lend a shamanistic air to these tiny totes.

If you’re not much of a rock hound, I love that these can be a special place for a personal talisman, or can function as a sachet for your favorite fragrance.

Ask to see the full selection and find the one that suits your nature best. ($30)