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Monday, July 4, 2011

I love this ring on sew many levels.....

Perri Jackson is an amazing wire artist. She makes some of the most amazing wire wrapped rings. But this one....


POD on a Hand
Originally uploaded by ShaktipajDesigns

This one I LOVE!

Let me tell you a little story that might explain why:

Once upon a time a crazy girl went to the movies and there was a poster for an upcoming movie. A revisit of a classic by a wacky film maker. Some nice gentleman in the line to see the next movie offered to take a picture of the crazy girl and her friend. And thats how it all started.


Here is the picture, as you can see there I am, and there behind me is the Mad Hatter hat. And look its a mini, and notice how my hair matches his hair?

Well thats where the idea came from: I need a girly mad hatter costume! Can you see it? a mini hatter hat, a corset instead of a vest, a plaid tutu instead of the kilt at the end? Of course Im built a little more like the Tweedles (Dee and Dum) so Im going really sssslllooooooowwww on the construction of this costume.


Step one: theHat

here I am in my finished mini version of my polymer clay hat--its heavy but it works


Now back to the ring.....







Here we have Johnny Depp in full costume. And almost impossible to find is a picture showing him with the pin cushion ring.




See? The Mad Hatter wears a pin cushion ring!!!
But his ring is not nearly as awesome as the ring by Perri!
Heres a link to her Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/shaktipajdesigns
and a link to her blog http://shaktipajdesigns.com/blog/

And because I love this ring so much, I need to wrap up this post with another picture of it

Plain POD
Originally uploaded by ShaktipajDesigns

2 comments:

Perri www.ShaktipajDesigns.etsy.com said...

Thank you for being so sweet and posting this, Miss Laura! I had no idea that they gave Johnny a pincushion ring as part of his costume!!!!! (don't beat me - I haven't seen it yet....) I just had a flight of fancy in the middle of a nostalgia moment for this ring. Mmmmmmm, dupioni silk!!!

This is seriously pushing me to offer ready made rings like this - I will need to ruminate......

Thank you so much for mentioning and liking this. ☺

laura said...

You realize that makes it even better!!!