craftgrrl | Yay stuff! Boooo camera! (Reply)

A little back story: My mother is an eighth grade language arts teacher and every year she does this BLOWOUT Greek mythology unit. (Incidentally, I blame this unit for why I went pagan, which is ironic because my mother's a hard-core, born again, praise Jeebus, Church Lady. No joke, bakes the communion bread and everything)

Anyhoodle, her school does this thing where they allow pretty much anything in the class room so long as it can be somehow related back to the unit they're doing. So my mother has this collection of Greek mythology inspired stuff. She even has this great gold material toga for when they do King Midas.

Aaaaand since Mother's day is coming up and I like being the favorite child and I was totally inspired by the lady's idea who was making all the bracelets inspired by the gods a la the Percy Jackson series of books (which my mother also uses in her classroom.) I'm sorry, lady, I totally can't remember your name and I'm waaaay to lazy to sift through all the entires to find your bracelets to footnote them, even though they're kickass awesome.

I digress with runon sentences, but basically I decided to do something similar. Behind the cut are two of my first projects, each being loosely inspired by a Hellenistic deity.

I say they're loosely based because I really haven't tried to include things that relate to the individual deities, other than loosely because while my mother loves Greek mythology, she's also very Christian and we don't want to get into the idol worship discussion we had when I wore a Shiva charm to the dinner table last Thanksgiving.

I am irritated with the fact that I don't know how to use my camera well. That piece was supposed to be Aphrodite (Goddess of Love), because I was thinking delicate, silver, shiny, etc. The spacers between each charm have this great leaf detail on them that goes with the big leaves. I also used swarovski crystal charms as well. Everything but the square charms are Blue Moon Co, the bracelet included.

This next one is all Poseidon. I was thinking God of the Sea, so I tried to stick with things found in the sea:

It's pearl and shell with gold wire and an antiquey toggle closure.

Again, I'm upset that my camera is taking crap pictures because I was very proud of these two, mainly because I haven't done anything with beading in a while.

Anyway, my plan is to work through all twelve gods of the pantheon, so I had to start early. Also, I think to myself, this is going to get expensive.

Thanks for looking. Next time: Hera and Artemis.

x-posted to my journal.