Tassel Earrings: Bloodwood and Jade

Bloodwood and Jade earrings with beadweaving and a reeled silk tassel
From "Crafting Enchantment," a collaboration with woodcarver Laura Jenkins Gorun. 
Master craftsmen Laura Jenkins Gorun and Mikelle Hickman-Romine collaborate to create wearable works of art and magic.
We have so little power in this world. Wearable symbols of relationship, beliefs, and hope are as old as human civilization. Laura's sensuous wood carving and Mikelle's wire and beadwork are brought to bear on creating wearable talismans designed to bring blessing to the wearer. Material objects are combined with personal history, prayers, and hard won skill to create gifts of beauty.