Presenting the Nevermore Necklace!

I’m as gothy as a person obsessed with pink bunnies can possibly be.

This necklace has miniature portraits hung from a circular linked chain. Each portrait is an original illustration—these are not stamped or printed. I used photos of real ravens for accuracy. They were created by the medium of colored pencil on shrinking plastic and each miniature is sealed with satin glaze.

I’m really quite proud J

Ravens are quite interesting birds. Besides Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, they feature prominently in myths from all over the world. Odin, the granddaddy of the Norse gods had two: Hugin and Munin. One raven knew everything and the other saw everything. Definitely intelligent birds even if they feasted off the dead in battlefields.

I don’t know if you’ve ever met a real raven, but they are immensely intimidated. Once, on a girls only roadtrip through the Painted Desert, a raven alighted on a rock just outside my friend’s car and fixed us with a look of keen and alien interest. You’ve never seen two girls roll up the windows so fast!

This necklace will be up on Etsy very soon.