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Hearts A'mor Earrings In Pink by rainwaterstudios on Etsy:
Sweet and enchanting earrings that bring out the little love faery in you. What a great pick me up style of earring. These very girly earrings can be made in practically any color you desire. A great addition to your earring collection.

Earrings measure 2.50 inches











                 

~ The Perfect Book For Halloween ~

                                                               ~One Of My Favorite Books To Read ~

Here is a small tidbit of the plot~

The well known immortal Alchemyst Nicholas Flamel must take a risk and take Josh and Sophie Newman (twins foretold to save the world) to London, where the oldest immortal human lives: the master of the element of water, North London, where the twins discover that Flamel has a feud with Palamedes' roommate, William Shakespeare. Mercifully, the two set aside their old dispute and battle Cerunnos, the Horned God, and the people members of his pack. According to myth he was once extremely beautiful, but now only his face is. He is part beast, and Dr. Dee believes that he has little or no magical powers. The Archon and the Wild Hunt attack Flamel, the twins, Palamedes, and Shakespeare in the junkyard, but are held off by Palamedes, Shakespeare, and their companions, the Gabriel Flamel and Palamedes take the twins to Stonehenge, where they enlist the help of Gilgamesh. While the twins are adjusting to the powers Gilgamesh has taught them, Cernunnos returns with the Wild Hunt and attacks the twins and Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is wounded by the Archon, but the twins use their newly found poweKing. But what Nicholas Flamel withholds from the twins is that Gilgamesh the King is insane. Though he has no aura - and hence cannot use his powers, he can still pass on his knowledge to an awakened human. If Gilgamesh refuses to teach the twins they will be unable to escape back to San Francisco using the Ley Lines, and will be trapped in Dr. John Dee's city. Even worse, Hounds.they will be in his hometown of London, where he is at his strongest. Flamel uses Francis to enlist Palamedes, the Saracen Knight to help them. Palamedes takes them to his home, a junkyard in and manage to work together to contact Perenelle. Perenelle is trapped on Alcatraz with the friendly but untrustworthy spider elder, Areop-Enap, after narrowly escaping the Sphinx and defeating The Morrigan. Morrigan has been suppressed sufficiently by the Words of Power that resided on the island that her body was retaken by her two sisters, Macha and Badb. Perenelle can also make fleeting contact with Scathach and Joan of Arc using scrying. Areop-Enap and his spider army are then attacked by an onslaught of poisoned flies, killing most of the spiders and wounding Areop-Enap. Billy the Kid has joined forces with Machiavelli in an attempt to kill the sorceress, but the pair are tricked and Perenelle steals their boat, travelling back to the mainland with her new ally, the Crow Goddess. Unfortunately, the Dark Elders have awakened an ancient being even more powerful and mysterious than them: an Archon. The Archon, named Cernunnos, is known as the Horned God and is the leader of a pack of wolf people called the Wild Hunt. He has amazing brute strength and retains the power to make rs to trap the Horned God. During the escape, Josh loses Clarent, and Dee grabs the sword, reuniting it with its twin, Excalibur. The two swords fuse together to make a new sword. The two swords may have been the twins of legend "the two that are one, the one that is all." Sophie and Josh activate the Ley Line, and are greeted by Perenelle on the other end. Meanwhile, Scathach and Joan of Arc try to get to Alcatraz to help Perenelle but are trapped in another time by Machiavelli, who had been waiting for someone to try it. They do not know how to return in their time but they will do their best to survive...


Here Is The Series Chronology:


1. The Alchemyst
2. The Magician
3. The Sorceress
4. The Necromancer
5. The Warlock: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
6. The Enchantress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

~ Halloween, Harvest Fest & Samhain Originations Of Traditions ~

~ Here are some interesting facts regarding one of my favorite times of the year ~

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in). The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly summer's end. A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kálan Gái av).

Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year.

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Up through the early twentieth century, the spelling "Hallowe'en" was frequently used, eliding the "v" and shortening the word. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hálȝena mæssedæȝ, the feast of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.



~ Happy Hauntings ~


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~ Ahhhhh.....Welcome To The First Day Of Fall ~

As Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in March (Southern Hemisphere) or September (Northern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.


The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons, but temperature lag (caused by the thermal latency of the ground and sea) means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective. The actual lag varies with region, so some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn" whilst others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere and March, April and May in the southern hemisphere.

In North America, autumn is usually considered to start with the September equinox.  In traditional East Asian solar term, Autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November.However, according to the Irish Calendar which is based on ancient Celtic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia, autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends 31 May. The vast diversity of the ecological zones of the South American, African and Australian continents renders the rigid European, North Asian and North American seasonal calendar an imposed cultural concept rather than relevant to climactic conditions. The seasonal cycles as named and described by the various indigenous Aboriginal peoples of Australia differ substantially from one another according to their local geographical and ecological environment and are intricately dependent on local environmental events and resources


An Equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. The term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens. The name "equinox" is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day are approximately equally long. It may be better understood to mean that latitudes +L and -L north and south of the Equator experience nights of equal length.


Although the word equinox is often understood to mean "equal [day and] night," this is not strictly true. For most locations on earth, there are two distinct identifiable days per year when the length of day and night are closest to being equal; those days are referred to as the "equiluxes" to distinguish them from the equinoxes. Equinoxes are points in time, but equiluxes are days. By convention, equiluxes are the days where sunrise and sunset are closest to being exactly 12 hours apart.


With all that being said...There's a lot to fall that I simply enjoy, warm apple cider, going to an apple orchard, taking a hay ride, enjoying just made caramel apples and the joy of children playing with all the leave that have fallen on the ground.  So my Fellow friends...  Welcome to Fall!!

Here are a few fantastic fall items from my Etsy shop~

Iridessa Fae's Hideaway Necklace

Earthy and Iridescent is Iridessa
she loves to frolic and play
while watching the leaves swing and sway
she stows away in her little hideaway
but be cautious of this little fae
she is mishevious and gets a little carried away.


This beautiful, earthy and coppery iridescent necklace illuminates all the colors of the geode in so many ways.


The geode comes from the Upper Penisula of Michigan. Unique to its own curves and colors.


Necklace measures 22 inches
Pendant is 3 inches

Falling Leaves Earrings

We sway and swish, crunch beneath your feet,

We fall gracefully from the trees that hold us high.

We are the leaves falling from the sky.

Pretty earrings with burnished leaves to mark the begining of the fall season with chilly mornings and warm autumn afternoons.

Earrings measure 3 inches

 Circles Of Fall Earrings

As we turn to fall and all the gorgeous colors that surround us, especially in my neighborhood, our whole street has huge trees of maple and oak. Which in my opinion, have some of the greatest colors; red, orange and gold. When we watch the leaves fall, they go in circles and sway with the breezes before they fall to the ground. As if the faery who took the leaf off the tree is playing and frolicing before the winter faeries wake from there slumber.


Great Fall earrings to show how much you appreciate the cool, crispness of the mornings and the warmth of the afternoon of Autumn.

Earrings measure 3 inches



   Fall Splendor Necklace

Fall is upon us. Soon all the faeries will be hard at work turning all our leaves to all the splendor fall has to offer. What a great necklace to honor the fellow fae and all there hard work to make such wonderful colors for us to enjoy.

Necklace Measures 25 inches end to end

Drop is 3 inches from center pearl

Autumn Faeire's Delight Necklace

My favorite faery would not let me make another piece of jewelry until I showed all of you her favorite piece. This is my faery who takes care of all my flowers in the fall and makes sure they come back alive in the spring.


I know it's a little early to be thinking Autumn since we are only beginning Summer. But this piece has so many great colors in it I could not hold back. I think this necklace will look great all summer long and well into fall.

Necklace measures 22 inches.



If you are looking for more great fall items go to~
 http://www.rainwaterstudios.etsy.com 

~ Fantastic New Listings From My Studio This Week ~

Faerie Trails of Love Necklace OOAK One Of A by rainwaterstudios:

When faeries fall in love, they leave the most incredible trail of dust behind. It invigorates, inspires and even helps influence humans to fall in love. What is more beautiful than falling in love, whether it is meeting your child for the first time or that first kiss. Faeries inspire us all.

Necklace measures 22 inches
One of a kind heart pendant measures 1.50 inches

Circles of Fall Earrings by rainwaterstudios on Etsy

Circles of Fall Earrings by rainwaterstudios on Etsy:

As we turn to fall and all the gorgeous colors that surround us, especially in my neighborhood, our whole street has huge trees of maple and oak. Which in my opinion, have some of the greatest colors; red, orange and gold. When we watch the leaves fall, they go in circles and sway with the breezes before they fall to the ground. As if the faery who took the leaf off the tree is playing and frolicing before the winter faeries wake from there slumber.

Great Fall earrings to show how much you appreciate the cool, crispness of the mornings and the warmth of the afternoon of Autumn.

Earrings measure 3 inches

Etruscan Inspired Bracelet In Silver by rainwaterstudios on Etsy

Etruscan Inspired Bracelet In Silver by rainwaterstudios on Etsy:
The origins of the Etruscans are lost in prehistory. The main hypotheses are that they are indigenous, probably stemming from the Villanovan culture, or that they are the result of invasion from the north or the Near East. Etruscan expansion was focused both to the north beyond the Apennines and into Campania. Some small towns in the 6th century BC disappeared during this time, ostensibly consumed by greater, more powerful neighbors. However, it is certain that the political structure of the Etruscan culture was similar to, albeit more aristocratic than, Magna Graecia in the south. The mining and commerce of metal, especially copper and iron, led to an enrichment of the Etruscans and to the expansion of their influence in the Italian peninsula and the western Mediterranean sea. Here their interests collided with those of the Greeks, especially in the sixth century BC, when Phoceans of Italy founded colonies along the coast of France, Spain and Corsica. This led the Etruscans to ally themselves with the Carthaginians, whose interests also collided with the Greeks.

These ancient people are my inspiration for this gorgeous bracelet in silver and copper.

Bracelet measures 8 inches
Bracelet can be custom ordered to fit the size you need. If a specific size is needed leave a comment in the comment/message section at checkout.

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                           ~You Might Also Like This Bracelet In Copper~

Etruscan Inspired Bracelet In Copper

Copper Filigree Earrings OOAK One Of A Kind by rainwaterstudios

Copper Filigree Earrings OOAK One Of A Kind by rainwaterstudios:

Classic and elegant. These vintage earrings are great for wearing with a little black dress. Unusual style of filigree and copper mixed with a pale peach swarovski crystal make the copper come to life.


Earrings measure 2.50 inches

Purple Cat Eye Earrings by rainwaterstudios on Etsy

Purple Cat Eye Earrings by rainwaterstudios on Etsy:
These darling earrings are made from a vintage bracelet that had lost its way. The purple cat eye beads set off the whole earring. A fantastic way to wear something with a little history.

Earrings measure 2 inches