Judy Garland once said, “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.”
Looking back on Valentine’s Day at some of the many globes we’ve made that have love in every shake and glitter.
“It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland
All photos and globe designs are copyright (c) Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado.
Sometimes you just know: Always.
One of a kind embellished silver/gray glass heart with metal hardware and gear details. When shaken, the glass globe fills with silver and gray reflective sparkles and microdust, slowly settling. All designs and photographs are copyright (c)2016 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado USA.
A wisp of a lyric, written on the wind, “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.”
– John Lennon and Robert Browning had the same idea.
Along those simple lines, a snow globe holds a couple of indeterminate age, holding each other as the world swirls round them.
Shake the globe and the liquid fills with glittering sparkles of gold; each tiny star a memory, each memory a brick in the life that’s built together.
One of a kind snow globe/water ball, all images and design copyright (c) 2014 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado.
One of my favorite scientists talked to me about Nikola Tesla a few years ago, saying that if he’d had the support and resources, he could have done amazing things.
In fact, we have no idea what he might have accomplished under other circumstances.
It got me thinking. Along with developing transmission of wireless communication, sharing free energy and maybe weapons of mass destruction, could Tesla mend a broken heart?
In this snow globe, a tiny Tesla is dwarfed by his machinery, including an interior liquid and sparkle-filled tube wearing the mending heart. Shake it, and the water fills with crisp gold shimmers, much like the unseen energy Tesla believed was all around us.
All designs and images copyright (c) 2014 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado.
Toughen up. Harden your heart. It’s a scary world out there.
We cover our hearts with bits of protection: the scars from long-ago loves, the uncertainty about our worthiness, worry over heartbreak yet to occur.
There’s a coat of armor, ready to ward off the slings and arrows of life, unpredictable alliances, fluid emotion.
Yet, between the shields of protective metal, the heart glimpses through, more curious than afraid, more hopeful than defeated.
Despite all precautions, the armored heart may yet be touched.
Armored Heart snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs 2014. All images and designs copyright (c) 2013 and 2014 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado.
At the Cherry Creek Arts Festival earlier this month, a small child asked me “what is your favorite snow globe here today?” And the surprising answer was: Attraction.
Well, it was surprising to me at least, because I thought I’d love my tiny airships, the Jules Verne-like “Under the Sea” submarine and octopus, the visual puns, such as “Too Big for his Bridges.”
But Attraction had the sweetest, most perfect sense of longing, of the undeniable pull in a new direction. The curving copper wire reminds me of tall grass and winds on the Kansas prairie, bending everything towards one point.
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