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I found some TINY antique salt and and pepper shakers and although I didn't know what I was going to do with them, I knew I just had to get them!
Soooooo this necklace features the tiny salt shaker measuring not even two inches tall and a brass wire looped securely through two of the holes.
I LOVE this verse in Psalms that reads...
"God keeps track of all my sorrows. He collects all my tears in His bottle"
I was thinking about this verse when I thought how adorable and sweet it would be to fill this little bottle with "tears". The tears are GORGEOUS faceted glass beads that change with the light...mostly purple, greens and blues.
I glued the top on and then decided I needed to actually put the verse....or at least part of the verse....somewhere on the bottle. I found a small silver button with a hold in the middle so I glued the button to the bottom with a little wire to hold the bauble. I used a brass lace edged bezel and placed the tiny scripture inside and then covered it with a glass cabochon. There is one tiny tear that escaped and is dripping down the very bottom of the bottle.
The silver chain measures 30" with the pendant adding another 3" and the pendant portion adds another 3" or so. I added two lovly "grape" beads, brass spacers and the same glass beads inbetween the chain for added BLING!
Full verse "For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession."
The Kyozo (経蔵), or Holy Scripture Hall, also referred to as the Rinzo, or sacred sutra library. Featuring a unique double layered roof and decorated in bright colored carvings, it is closed to the public and contains 7,000 Buddhist scrolls and books in a revolving structure.
Nikkō Tōshō-gū (日光東照宮) is a lavishly decorated shrine complex consisting of more than a dozen Shinto and Buddhist buildings set in a beautiful forest. It was initially built during the Edo period in 1617 by Tokugawa Hidetada (徳川 秀忠), the second shogun, as a simple mausoleum for his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康) (1543-1615), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Ieyasu was buried on Mount Kunozan on his death in 1616, but according to his testament, his remains were to be moved to their last resting place at Nikko. It was enlarged during the first half of the 187th century by Ieyasu’s grandson, Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川 家光), the third shogun. Some 15,000 craftsmen were employed on the construction of the Toshogu Shrine, most of them coming from Kyoto and Nara, where there was a great flowering of architecture at that period. The result was a complex of buildings with an over-lavish profusion of decoration, incorporating all the sumptuousness of the preceding Momoyama period.
Today the shrine is dedicated to the spirits of of Ieyasu and two other of Japan's most influential historical personalities—Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉) (1536-1598), a daimyo (territorial lord) in the Sengoku period who unified political factions of Japan; and Minamoto no Yorimoto (源 頼朝) (1147-1199), the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199.
Together with Rinnō-ji and Futarasan Shrine, Tōshō-gū forms the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō UNESCO World Heritage Site.
He has made everything beautiful in it's time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (NIV)
For my about-to-turn-8 daughter.
I'm terribly proud of myself - didn't have to buy a thing, and it's so cute!
It's "regular" size (i.e. not compact) and there should be room inside for a little notebook as well. If I did it again I might think about adding a plain, flat pocket on the back as well.
I used the pattern from here:
www.polkadotchair.com/2010/03/tuesday-tutorial-scripture-...