Zetahras Erinnerung
After we lost Zetahra I was looking for things I could have made to remember her by. I settled on a ceramic pendant that used a few of her hairs to burn a pattern onto the piece. I usually just wore it on Sunday and Tristan liked the look of it. A couple months ago he got into my jewelry box and pulled it out as I was finishing lessons and Chris was trying to clean up. Tristan claimed that Kelhan broke it, but either way it was broken.
The lady who did the original piece had retired and turned her studio over to someone else. I contacted him and he said he'd be able to replace it. I also contacted a lady in the state draft horse group who does something similar.
A few weeks ago I received the replacement pendant(s!) from the first studio. Not only did he replace the pendant, but he sent two more plus the leather necklaces to hang them!
This week he emailed me asking how they arrived and sent a link for the video showing the process, which was pretty cool.
I mailed a hand-written "thank you" today including a sketch of Z.
I also sent Christina one, but failed to take a picture of the drawing before I sealed the envalope.
Here are the resulting pendants:
The round ones are from Dancing Fire Pottery and the tear-dropped shaped one is from Christina at FlyingMane Pottery.
The backs of the Dancing Fire pieces have "Z" stamped on them.
They all have their unique design and it didn't take much hair at all. The nice thing is that you don't have to have particularly long hair or a great amount of it to do these unlike the braided horsehair jewelry you see. They are also pretty sturdy, though I wouldn't recommend trusting them to a four year-old...
Overall I'm very pleased with how they turned out.
The lady who did the original piece had retired and turned her studio over to someone else. I contacted him and he said he'd be able to replace it. I also contacted a lady in the state draft horse group who does something similar.
A few weeks ago I received the replacement pendant(s!) from the first studio. Not only did he replace the pendant, but he sent two more plus the leather necklaces to hang them!
This week he emailed me asking how they arrived and sent a link for the video showing the process, which was pretty cool.
Click to viewI mailed a hand-written "thank you" today including a sketch of Z.
I also sent Christina one, but failed to take a picture of the drawing before I sealed the envalope.
Here are the resulting pendants:
The round ones are from Dancing Fire Pottery and the tear-dropped shaped one is from Christina at FlyingMane Pottery.
The backs of the Dancing Fire pieces have "Z" stamped on them.
They all have their unique design and it didn't take much hair at all. The nice thing is that you don't have to have particularly long hair or a great amount of it to do these unlike the braided horsehair jewelry you see. They are also pretty sturdy, though I wouldn't recommend trusting them to a four year-old...
Overall I'm very pleased with how they turned out.