Trinket #275 - Nevermore Necklace

The majority of my day today was spent outdoors under a cold gray sky at Richmond's Edgar Allan Poe Museum for the launch of my new book Richmond Macabre. It was truly a melancholy afternoon, but a great time was had by all! In honor of the day, I put together a Poe-inspired necklace using one of the million ribbon and cord necklaces I picked up last month and a pendant featuring a creepy bird that seems to have seen better days.

Trinket #187 - Wire Crow Pendant

A lone crow. It's actually a pretty sad thing, but this trinket wasn't intended that way. I've been super-busy lately with a top secret new venture that has had my brain on overdrive, subsequently leaving very little fuel for flashy trinkets.

Also, while this pendant looks simple and easy, but this was actually the fifth one that I made because the first four failed miserably.

Trinket #84 - Nevermore Necklace

I couldn't bring myself to force another pair of earrings on you tonight, so I managed to put together this necklace. I've been feeling somewhat less-than-optimal the past few days, a feeling which seems to have culminated into full fledged lousiness today, so the trinket had to be a quick one.

I'll leave you with a line from Poe's The Raven that I've always been particularly drawn to, maybe because it seems to describe a major part of my life -

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." 

PS - For the curious: yes, the skull smoker is one of my ceramics from last spring.