Autumn is Nigh

Gentle autumn colors and textures, a longing for cooler days and harvest elixirs. Nostalgia grabs the wheel while we're doing errands and songs on the radio become anthems of rosewater and yearning.

This witch hat beckons to walks in vineyards and orchards, with its pantone fall palette on tapestry, adorned with roses and leaves. A unique boutique chapeau by Mermaiden Creations.

Golden Autumn Witch Hat

Vintage sentiments and fragments of lost memories in a romantic arrangement is feminine but definitely not frou-frou. Hand formed silk roses and antique trims in this any-occasion statement necklace.

Blushing Vintage Rose Couture Necklace

Fading, falling, frail, found.

Real Dragonfly Pendant

Following the Rabbit

So many versions of Alice and her wanderings, journeys light and dark. Symbols vary for each generation that her trip down the rabbit hole affects, but the wild and wonderful weird beauty remains a common thread.

Cheshire Cat eyes in the rose garden. A party hat for Alice, A Witch in Wonderland.

What doors does the Key to Love open?

 Wonderland Couture, Stripes and Roses Scarf.

Victorian romance abounds in Vintage Decolletage Statement Necklace, Wonderland garden party splendor and a fairy tale offering.

Time of Roses

It was not in the Winter
Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time of roses—
We pluck'd them as we pass'd! 

That churlish season never frown'd
On early lovers yet:
O no—the world was newly crown'd
With flowers when first we met! 

'Twas twilight, and I bade you go,
But still you held me fast;
It was the time of roses—
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!

~Thomas Hood

All designs available at Mermaiden Creations on Etsy; Something Blue Rose Choker, The River Daughter Crown, Roses at Dusk Statement Neklace

Garden of Dreams

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  

My garden of flowers

is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. 

 The thoughts grow as freely

as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

-   Abram L. Urban

All designs found at Mermaiden Creations shop; Steampunk Garden Bling, Key to Love, Roses at Dusk

Upon Waking

I dreamed last night of the Old Ones

Telling me of the sea

And secrets

Whispers like the bark on trees

Reaching Then and Yet

All at once

Drawing symbols on my skin

Circle upon circle

And there was no end

~Julie Ferioli 2010

Jewelry found at www.mermadencreatons.etsy.com, The Key to the Sea, Gaze Into My Eyes, The Spiral Dance

The Last Wave

I cry for the lonely mermaid (whose lovers are bones below)

Salt spray stinging my eyes

Sea stained cheeks

Call of the gull, the wail of the maid (leading the ships to the rocks)

Crashing of the waves

Castle of rock spires

Rocking in my cradle (jetsam tossed upon The Vast)

Her song sails me home

Green glass washed upon the shore

~Julie Ferioli 2010

Mermaid Themed Jewelry found at my Etsy shop: Mermaid Memento Mori Necklace, Spiral Shell Sea Priestess Pendant, Lady of the Lake Sea Glass Pendant

What To Tell The Bees

I have told the bees

He is gone from us;

I have given up gossamer prayers.

Carry roses, pacasandra, azaleas

The birch and dogwood to listen;

Send the song of his memories back to him.

He tends his garden

And remembers now,

Whispering his story on the wings of the bees.

~Julie Ferioli

Joseph Kellner Sager 

September 21, 1921- May 26, 2010