Finally, tonight, five new works by Wings.

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All right, I've been promising a couple of these for . . . what? a week? It's just the usual holiday creative season chaos here, and I have about three times as many tasks on my to-do list every day as what even the most energetic and efficient person could ever get done, and Spirit knows I'm no longer that. 

Finally, tonight, five new works by Wings.

First up is the necklace shown up there; it's more modestly priced than most, a reflection of its smaller pendant size and [mostly] less costly stones. This is Smoke and Light:

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That trillion-cut pendant looks like smoky quartz, but it's not: It's silver-sheen obsidian, and it is fabulous. It also refracts the light all the way through, because Wings excised part of the back of the bezel to allow it. The beads are a mix of white-lip mother-of-pearl shell and smoky quartz rounds and high-grade moonstones, the latter in gray tube-bead and peach/gray faceted cube forms. You can read its full description here.

The second of te new works is oone you've already seen if you read Friday's NDN Silver post. If not, it will be entirely new to you. This is Where Worlds Meet:

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Why, yes, you have seen one like this recently anyway, but this one is a little slimmer, with a smaller stone, hence the somewhat lower price. It's nine-gauge sterling silver, stamped freehand and set with a staurolite, a rare stone found only in a few places on earth, and this is one of them. You can read its full description here.

The third, fourth, and fifth items are all barrettes: pairs of them, to be precise. These are smaller in design than what he usually makes, intended mostly as decorative barrettes for, say, one's stray front or side locks, but . . . the French clip assembly on the back of each is full-size, which means that most people can probably fit their entire ponytail's worth of hair into it. That's partly because he uses only genuine French clips for the barrette assemblies, and they are sturdier than the knockoffs.

First up is a fabulous lapis-set pair. These are Thunder At Twilight:

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Solid, yet lightweight; all 20-gauge sterling silver, cut freehand and stamped freehand in an old traditional symbol representing conjoined thunderheads. The lapis squares at the center of each are nothing short of incredible: a deep blend of cobalt and violet blues, banded with shimmering lines of pryite that look like clouds of stardust. You can read their full description here.

Next up is a pair for this colder season (but frankly, for all seasons, at least around here). These are An Evergreen Medicine:

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I love the stampwork on these: old-style, very deep, heavily oxidized, and capable of representing so many things. In this context, they remind me of an aerial view of snow-covered stands of evergreens and the shadows they cast. The jade cabs atthe center of each are highly domed and the exact color of winter spruce and Ponderosa pine needles. You can read their full description here.

Fifth and finally is the third par of barrettes, these slightly smaller, all silver, and wrought a bit differently. These are called Spirit Lines:

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The gallery description explains the nature of spirit lines; it has to do with humility, with a necessary lack of hubris, with the recognition that only Spirit can create true perfection. These were not experimental, precisely, but perhaps . . . a bit casual, intended as a throwback, a vintage-style one-shot freehand work that represents, among other things, a  refusal to let leftover bits of silver go to waste. You can read their full description here.

All five works are gorgeous; all would make great holiday gifts, to others or to yourself. And there's plenty of other extraordinary inventory, which you can find by navigating from Wings's main page, here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And we do urgently need to make consistent sales to make it through the rest of this third year of pandemic and loss, and the holiday sales season is now officially under way, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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