something for the bride: Calm Waters Chaplet
Showing posts with label chaplets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chaplets. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Anglican Rosaries - Eternity Rings and Trinity Beads
How did I get started making Anglican Rosaries?
While I attended the Anglican School of Theology, I
took a class, “Prayer and the Spiritual Life” taught by Rev. Judy Frizzell. I
had no idea how much this class would
affect my life. We studied various forms
of prayer and spiritual discipline. Praying the rosary and meditation became my spiritual disciplines. I started off making prayer bead necklaces from there I I have been designing Anglican rosaries for 8 years. Inspired by a prayerful friend, Jayne Ann, while watching her pray with a Roman Catholic chaplet, I started designing Anglican chaplets several years ago. This summer I started incorporating that
design in a bracelet.
Unakite Anglican Chaplet Bracelet
Over the past few years, I have been making subtle
changes to my rosaries. When I designed
my Anglican chaplet bracelet, the ring I used to anchor the cross to the chaplet was also the clasp
for the toggle. So I added the eternity ring to take the place of the
invitatory bead to the rosaries. The ring symbolizes the Alpha and Omega, and
can be used just like the invitatory bead in rosaries.
Blue Goldstone Anglican Rosary with Eternity Ring
Almost all my rosaries have the unique
Trinity Bead Feature. When my husband went on a mission trip to Uganda to
minister to the Batwa pygmies*, he asked me to make wearable rosaries for both
men and women. I decided not to use African Trade Beads because I wasn’t sure
of the symbolism of the beads and didn’t want to offend the pygmies. It’s hot and humid in Uganda, even up in the
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, instead of
making rosaries with silk thread, I used hemp.
I made three knots in the hemp and hung a crucifix from the third knot. I incorporated this design in my
rosaries, there are three beads/knots on either side of the cruciform beads
representing the Holy Trinity. I add the three beads/knots at either side of
the invitatory bead and before the cross.
Painted Desert Jasper Anglican Rosary
*For more information on the plight of the Batwa Pygmies
check out Dr. Scott Kellerman’s website: http://kellermannfoundation.org/
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Surviving as a mother of twins
I am a mother of 9 month old boy/girl fraternal twins, adjusted age 7 months. My life is simple. I feed babies, watch and play with babies, comfort them, put them down for naps, take them to doctors, feed them, diaper them, feed them, dress them...and so on.
My son has been diagnosed with auditory neuropathy syndrome. He is mildly deaf in his right ear, and moderately to profoundly deaf in his left ear. For a deaf child, he hears remarkably well. He also suffers from wimpy white boy syndrome. When his NICU doctor told us he was a wimpy white boy, I thought reverse discrimination. But I have since found out, it's a real thing, baby white boys have a hard time their first year of life, they lag behind girls in many ways. His sister beats him in trunk control. She's been standing on her own for a month, and he just flops around. After 5 weeks of occupational therapy and developmental skill through ECI we are seeing remarkable improvement. He can sit up on his own, and he rolls from front to back and back to front and kneels. He doesn't crawl, but rolls to places he wants to go and he sort of slithers on his belly. His sister hasn't figured out crawling either, she scoots on her back and screams the whole time.
I no longer where nice clothes. I feel dressed up when I wear jeans! I spend most of my time in yoga pants and whatever semi-clean shirt I can find. Spit up doesn't seem to come out of clothes. I've tried Shout and Oxi-Clean, I'm thinking of just burning the clothes instead. On a good day, I've brushed my hair and teeth at least once, am wearing a little make up, found reasonably clean clothes to wear and had a decent night sleep. When will my clothes stop being stained by babies? Will it ever end?
Almost every room in my house has something baby related in it, except for the master bedroom and the tack room. Did I mention my husband and I own a horse? Royal Krew was our baby before I became pregnant. She is now pasture art. She enjoys treats, the company of her stable mates and not being ridden. We introduced the babies to her after Easter. She sniffed at the babies while I held them in my arms. I think she understood as she has been a mother to three foals prior to her life with us.
I find time to design jewelry. Working with beads, stones, wire, etc really helps me relax and gets the creative juices flowing. I've made a lot of earrings this year. Earrings don't take as long to design, and assemble as a necklace does. Chaplets are easier to create than rosaries, so I've made some of those, too. I've got lots of ideas, but not a lot of time to actually sit down and make it so.
This fall, I decided to do some marketing with Out of the Box Samples. I've made a lot of pendants and more earrings the past few months. I have to package my December samples and get the package out the door for my November 20th deadline. I decided I needed some time off from making jewelry samples, so I'm taking January off, but will be participating in OOTBS February, March, April and May 2011. Then I'm taking the summer off from OOTBS but will be sending in samples for October, November and December.
This is pretty much me in a nut shell: babies, horse, jewelry designer, cooking, church choir, bible study, my family's farm, gardening (semi-organic), mother, daughter, sister, wife, child of God, native Texan. Prior to my twins, I worked in Residential Real Estate for 14 years. Some days I really miss it and would give my coffee money if I could show houses for an afternoon, talk to an adult, negotiate an offer. Most days, I would kill for a Starbucks Grande Mocha but I'll settle for a home brewed freshly ground Sumatra coffee with vanilla syrup.
My son has been diagnosed with auditory neuropathy syndrome. He is mildly deaf in his right ear, and moderately to profoundly deaf in his left ear. For a deaf child, he hears remarkably well. He also suffers from wimpy white boy syndrome. When his NICU doctor told us he was a wimpy white boy, I thought reverse discrimination. But I have since found out, it's a real thing, baby white boys have a hard time their first year of life, they lag behind girls in many ways. His sister beats him in trunk control. She's been standing on her own for a month, and he just flops around. After 5 weeks of occupational therapy and developmental skill through ECI we are seeing remarkable improvement. He can sit up on his own, and he rolls from front to back and back to front and kneels. He doesn't crawl, but rolls to places he wants to go and he sort of slithers on his belly. His sister hasn't figured out crawling either, she scoots on her back and screams the whole time.
I no longer where nice clothes. I feel dressed up when I wear jeans! I spend most of my time in yoga pants and whatever semi-clean shirt I can find. Spit up doesn't seem to come out of clothes. I've tried Shout and Oxi-Clean, I'm thinking of just burning the clothes instead. On a good day, I've brushed my hair and teeth at least once, am wearing a little make up, found reasonably clean clothes to wear and had a decent night sleep. When will my clothes stop being stained by babies? Will it ever end?
Almost every room in my house has something baby related in it, except for the master bedroom and the tack room. Did I mention my husband and I own a horse? Royal Krew was our baby before I became pregnant. She is now pasture art. She enjoys treats, the company of her stable mates and not being ridden. We introduced the babies to her after Easter. She sniffed at the babies while I held them in my arms. I think she understood as she has been a mother to three foals prior to her life with us.
I find time to design jewelry. Working with beads, stones, wire, etc really helps me relax and gets the creative juices flowing. I've made a lot of earrings this year. Earrings don't take as long to design, and assemble as a necklace does. Chaplets are easier to create than rosaries, so I've made some of those, too. I've got lots of ideas, but not a lot of time to actually sit down and make it so.
This fall, I decided to do some marketing with Out of the Box Samples. I've made a lot of pendants and more earrings the past few months. I have to package my December samples and get the package out the door for my November 20th deadline. I decided I needed some time off from making jewelry samples, so I'm taking January off, but will be participating in OOTBS February, March, April and May 2011. Then I'm taking the summer off from OOTBS but will be sending in samples for October, November and December.
This is pretty much me in a nut shell: babies, horse, jewelry designer, cooking, church choir, bible study, my family's farm, gardening (semi-organic), mother, daughter, sister, wife, child of God, native Texan. Prior to my twins, I worked in Residential Real Estate for 14 years. Some days I really miss it and would give my coffee money if I could show houses for an afternoon, talk to an adult, negotiate an offer. Most days, I would kill for a Starbucks Grande Mocha but I'll settle for a home brewed freshly ground Sumatra coffee with vanilla syrup.
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