Red Poppy Brooch Green Materials: The False Indigo earrings

Materials: The False Indigo earrings are cast in hand-patinated bronze and accented with hand cast blue glass flowers

The Myrtle's white flowers and lance shaped leaves serve as the inspiration for this elegant jewellery

Acorns were used extensively as a food source for native North American Indians and also roasted as a coffee substitute

they became a widespread cooking ingredient

“I hope you enjoy my contemporary interpretation of one of nature’s true beauties

Red Poppy Brooch Green Materials: The False Indigo earringsFollowing the trench warfare of the first World War which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders, red poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime. The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem "In Flanders field". Its opening lines refer to the many poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned up earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders. Red Poppies, or artificial ones, are worn on