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This is a very special necklace. The vial pendant contains dried carnation petals from my boyfriend's grandmother's funeral last summer. I dried the flowers, because I'm a little sentimental and I keep a lot of things from significant occasions, even the sad ones.

This necklace is sort of a preservation of her memory, I know the flowers probably wouldn't survive something like moving to a new place. Now a part of them is safe.



The vial contains pink and red carnation petals and two freshwater pearls. I replaced the eyelet screw in the cork with my own version, consisting of a leafy bead cap, pale pink Czech glass bead and wire coil. The cork was dabbed with clear drying glue, to make sure the vial doesn't fall off.

The rest of the necklace consists of 22 gauge color coated copper wire, pink Czech glass, garnet red Czech glass, bronze leafy bead caps and the occasional byzantine knot. Adjustable chain with bead dangle at the end, and a hand made clasp to match.

You can see a closer version of the vial itself here [link]

This won't be for sale, for obvious sentimental value reasons.

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:icongreen-envy-designs:
beautiful work and what a lovely thought! really lovely :)

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:icondesireemorte:
Thanks so much :-) Who knew I'd love to work with pink and red together.

My boyfriend loved the necklace, but it makes him a little sad

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:icongreen-envy-designs:
very understandable. it holds such personal feelings.

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:icondesireemorte:
He thinks his dad might like one, so I'm trying to figure out how to make one of these manly. I have a vial left, I'd work with silver wire... but red beads might be too much. I'm pondering.

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i'd say no beads just wire. fairly plain. not too smooth/subtle detailed work.

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:icondesireemorte:
I agree. I was thinking of using a just silver beads, a simple silver spacer bead to add texture to the metal, but keep it metal all around.
Thanks for your input!!

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anytime! i can imagen how special this must be for him! :) (ps did you think of black pearls for him? with maybe yellow leaves? i dunno just hit me that would be nice. anyways LOL whatever you do im sure he'll adore it for

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Wow what an original idea putting dried flowers into a vial.
I'm disappointed you didn't at the very least credit me for the idea.

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Very poignant; and beautifully photographed.

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