Another Custom Order: Heart Defect Necklace

Tonight I’m bringing you a peek at another custom order I did a few months back.  Forgive my gushing, but my customers are so creative.  I am fascinated with the cool ideas they bring to me.  I’m honored to help make those ideas a reality by creating a completely one of a kind, memorable piece of wearable art.

A woman had emailed me about making a special necklace to honor her young son, who has a very rare congenital heart defect called a vascular ring of the right aortic arch.  The heart’s vascular ring pinches the trachea and esophagus which can inhibit breathing and swallowing.  I understand it’s very rare, with only 1 in 100,000 people suffering from this diagnosis.  Starting with my classic anatomically correct heart, this is what we came up with together.

I don’t know much about anatomy, so it was quite a challenge to match the medical pictures I had found while minding the physical properties and limitations of polymer clay.  Making this necklace also reminded me, yet again, how brilliant and miraculous our bodies are.  At any given moment our bodies are carrying out thousands (millions?) of mind-boggling and invisible processes to keep us alive, and yet we often take this for granted.

To my delight my customer loved it, and I hear her son’s pulmonologist got a kick out of it as well, LOL!  Believe it or not this isn’t my first heart defect piece.  I am glad that this unusual but lovely little niche found me!

Thanks for reading,

~ Allison ~

Good and Evil Custom Pandora’s Box

I just had to share this with you!  You may have seen my Pandora’s boxes, which begin as everyday candy tins, and, layers of polymer clay later, end up as unique works of art.  A customer requested that I make a “good and evil” box.  Well, here’s what I came up with.  Four more pix after the jump!

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New Pill Bracelet

I have a new bracelet available that features the beloved Gearbunny pills!  The Pharma Bracelet is a colorful eyecatcher that’s sure to stir up some discussion.  I can picture this being a great addition to a Halloween costume, especially.

I decided to make this bracelet because I’m reading Mad in America, a fascinating look at the real history of psychiatry by Robert Whitaker.  It’s quite disturbing and yet I can’t put it down.  It’s certainly opened my eyes to all that we don’t understand about mental health.

Here’s a peek behind the scenes:

Check out the listing here.

Giant SALE on Gearbunny’s Whole Shop!

I am offering some big savings as I clear out old stock to prepare for exciting new spring designs.  This week only thru March 6, receive 15% off by simply entering coupon code ELECTRO15 upon checkout! It’s so easy, even Charlie Sheen could do it.  Click the Skeleanimal to check out the goods.

Bloody Kisses

Hope you all had an awesome Valentine’s Day.  Here are two more luscious, dark Valentine Etsy treasuries to put the strawberry in your champagne.  I thank the curators for including my tentacle heart necklace!

Love is in the Air

I love this one… that lipstick kiss purse is to die for!

Bloody Valentine, Queen of my Heart

Here are some brutal, beautiful pieces that might be worn by a vampire princess or a steampunk Queen of Hearts.