Midsummer Hair Tie Heart These earrings work on exactly

These earrings work on exactly that principle

for about twenty minutes

to gather and hold and disappear into the architecture of a twist or bun until the light catches it just right

These earrings live in that same register

The Industrial Revolution had flooded Victorian England with cheap

Midsummer Hair Tie Heart These earrings work on exactlySomewhere around the solstice, the garden loses its composure. The climbing roses forget where they were going. The honeysuckle tangles into the lavender. Everything blooms at once, without permission, and the air turns thick with pollen and warmth and the particular green smell of things growing faster than they should. There is no neatness to midsummer. Only abundance. That spirit has deep roots in the decorative arts the Art Nouveau metalworkers