Relics: The Path Finder Copper Necklace

The story:  Relics is my first curated collection in almost six months while I figured out what direction I wanted to go in.  There was a lack of creative energy on my end, and a lot of fighting to stay on the path and not astray from the purpose of why I create to begin with.  To me, this collection symbolizes walking back on the path that brought me here in admiration of how far I have come, and picking at the ideas that really brought xtwii to what it was all along.   The Path Finger Necklace is a skeleton key made of real dried rose thorns from my garden with the "key" part being quartz and herkimer.  A symbolic ode to my work with both Hekate and Aphrodite, this necklace is a ritual in itself.  Herkimer to reach our highest selves, quartz to amplify, rose thorns to remember the resilience in beauty in not just ourselves but life, and a choker made of faux pearls and star garnet to ground and unlock the mysteries and insight within us. Coated in copper using a technique known as el