My Mine.... A very blingy bracelet

 It's time again for the Etsy Beadweaver's challenge as March is rolling around.
This month the theme is "Destinations". Most of my fellow team members went with real places like Peru or  sandy beaches, or the magical East.

And they are all awesome.

It's just that I don't do reality too well.

 I do imagination well.

 "My Mine" is based on my fascination with the mine of the seven dwarves in Snow White.

While I am usually not very happy with over simplified Disney versions of fairy tales, when it comes to Snow White, I always loved the movie.  Maybe because it was the first full lenght feature, with more depth to it then many that followed... Who knows. I have soft spot for Snow White.

Especially when Snow White is running away from home, through the woods full of mean trees. That is truly inspiring to me
(Yupp, I am truly, painfully weird .)

Then the mine where the dwarfs go to work... With all the gems known to humankind in one mine, with a bunch of subterranean happy workers, free of lung disease , all happy , no worries, singing their happy "heigh ho" song... 

That got me wishing for such a place to exist, if only in my dreams, for as long as I can remember.Especially because I came from what used to be a mining town, and I understood even at a young age that the images portrayed in the movie were as far from reality as they could possibly be.
But it was so dreamy.

Finally  I decided to use the ginormous Swarovski stone that my friend Marsha gave me months ago, and I  knew what that stone reminded me of, and it was that mine of course.

 Cold shimmery stone walls, symbolized by the matte zinc colored metal seed beads, with great textures in an asymmetric pattern that manages to be balanced without being repeated, that was my aim with this one.

Who knows if it really succeeded, but it sure makes me happy. And while this bracelet has already found a home, it is hard to let it go, and I promised myself to remake it for me.

So  much bling, so little time.

If you have a chance, pop by between the 9th and 15 of March to cast a vote for your favorite entry. There are some awesome pieces this month. Here is the link for the Etsy Beadweaves Guild.