Welcome to Fadwa’s Art-to-Wear Jewelry
Wear what you enjoy and enjoy what you wear!
My Designs and I
My senses are bursting with life; it is as if each one has five senses of its very own. Not long ago, I used to wonder where everything my senses touched went. Until I started to play with beads!
The many walks I took through the Canadian autumn, kicking up miniature paintings of fallen leaves in every shade and hue of brown and gold ever imagined. Wearing black gloves so that I could catch snowflakes during the winter as they danced their way back to earth and wonder at the intricate details of every snowflake’s unique design. The endless moods of light, emitted by the sun and the moon, each one’s magical effect on everything it touched. The stunning sea at Moraira, a lovely town in the east coast of Spain, which once I experienced, I could never say the sea is simply blue ever again!
Everything filtered by my senses was stored in a huge treasure chest, lodged deep within the fibers of my being. When first I held a handful of colored glass beads and semiprecious stones, this chest unlocked, and out came the multi-winged butterflies of remembrance, urging me to paint with stones and beads.
And when I studied semiprecious stones and glass beads, I was amazed to discover that each bead held the heritage of its maker and his culture. A miniature history lesson traveling through the bead route and the route of time.
Semiprecious stones held powers, secrets or beauty, it doesn’t matter which you believe, for they have been with us since time began, and our live earth continues to give birth to more.
It seems I began my journey as a designer without ever realizing it. Everything I do is so closely knit together that reading spills into designing, which in turn spills into music or dance or writing. One just leads to the other in an endless cycle of attempts to create something ever more dazzling, ever more engaging, ever more bursting with life.
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Thank you for visiting my Art-to-Wear Jewelry Gallery. I have been designing jewelry since 1997 and since I fell in love with semiprecious stones and beads, and their fascinating history. Each piece I create is original, unique and handmade; and each piece of jewelry has a story to tell.
Choose the collection you wish to see from the Categories to the right. You can buy online or you can email me – check out the Order Info page for details.
To see earlier blog posts, newsletters and thoughts on what inspires me, please check the Words to Design By category. Don’t forget to also visit my photo inspirational blog at www.fadwas-inspirational.blogspot.com.
Please feel free to share your comments, ideas and thoughts on my collections, posts and photos.
Enjoy!
Fadwa