Gothic Cathedral Bracelet

 What do Gothic Cathedrals have to do with eyeballs you may ask.

Well, a lot. I can tell you this, because I spent my childhood dragged into such places all across the Old World by my Grandma, who graciously took me on pilgrimages with her church group.

 Such trips involved sitting on buses for days heading towards Italy, Germany  and Belgium among other places, while listening to the old ladies take their turn by the driver's microphone, singing such classics as "The Lamb of God" at full volume, while our destinations were the holiest places in the whole of Christiandom.
I , unfortunately for my Grandma,have been religiously challenged from an early age,and though my heart does not have a God shaped hole in it, I have been captivated by the beauty of such places as long as I can remember.

 The artwork is fascinating, and so I have set through masses, even the ordination of a bishop, a truly exclusive event in Saint Patrick's in NYC, when my grandma came to visit me while I lived in New York a few years back...
 I have  always been fascinated by the art, the sculptures, the murals,  the rituals,and the austere atmosphere, and couldn't help but think of all the people who came before me, as far back as the Middle Ages, (except for of course in the case of Saint Patty's), who felt so minuscule, so insignificant in the presence of such grandness, in the presence of a God that was watching them from high above.

And don't be mistaken, in a cathedral, there are hundreds of Saints, the Virgin and the Holy Trinity ever so watchful looking down at you.

So that' where the eyeballs come from. The pattern, well, the pattern is as usual, it's just what's in my head. 

I just happened to be thinking about Gothic Cathedrals while I was making this bracelet, and then all the sudden there was more and more purple, visions of rosette windows and stained glass....

It was fun, and right after I listed it on Etsy, it sold. Bye bye Cathedral.