Kavita's necklace

Kavita, a friend from choir had asked me to make her a custom necklace. She invited me to her house on Saturday- the house has been in an on-going renovation for 11 years- she designed some of the rooms herself. That afternoon, she got her husband, her twin teenagers (a boy and a girl), and her 5 dogs all sitting in their living room looking through my Etsy shop in a 60" flatscreen tv. That was quite a big moment for me...

She told me about her love for jewelry and silver. Her husband then pulled out her old silver collection and showed me her crazy collection-  silver bugs jewelry, silver half a foot pendant, over-the-top heavy precious stone necklace and a huge messy wire earring in silver. She finally asked me to make whatever I want with the oval lapis lazuli bead that I've got.

It's very uncommon for someone to say to me, "I like your taste, here's mine, now go!" - especially in Canberra! Talk about trust! I know this place is Australia's capital city, but it's sort of rural at the same time. The suburbs are divided by forests, sometimes people go to the supermarket and cinema in their PJ's and wear jeans to concerts. No one wears crazy in here!

So this is what I've come up with,

I oddly quite like this necklace. I tried making it crazy, but not too much so that it's still 'me'. I'll be giving this to her this weekend. I hope she likes it! Eeek...!

Her daughter Llana also ordered my 'geometric choker' but in black. It's so odd. I thought I would never sell that piece because it's so unusual- but she loves it! Man, I love people who are 'out there'! They get me! =)