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A few words this week - I started collecting crystal eggs after I became an empty nester. Three of these eggs (Chrysocolla, Snowflake Obsidian, and Yellow/Orange Calcite) represent my three children who are now adults living on their own. These three egg-shape sculpted gemstones fit perfectly inside an actual bird nest I discovered during a walk along a beach path. Since that time I have added two more "crystal children" (Fluorite and Jasper eggs) for my additional children, a son-in-law and daughter-in-law. The newest and smallest egg recently added to my collection (Ruby in Zoisite) is representative of my grandson born on June 7, 2008. I wonder how many eggs a family makes before my collection is complete.
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What a very cool idea! I can just see you stopping by the collection and picking up an egg and` musing over the child it represents.
great photo!
Mine is up.
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Happy WW!!
those eggs are beautiful. happy ww
What a fantastic idea! I don’t care for rings, so this would be my ideal family-birthstone-ring type of remembrance…especially as I could match each person to what each stone iself means to me.
I love the speckled one in the middle! I predict you will be having to find a much larger nest before long
What a great image and idea…I used to have a little pouch filled with crystals – though I never referred to them as my children. May have to start one for my son.
What an absolutely wonderful concept. An egg holds a world (literally) of symbolism in and of it itself, and here you have gone on to encompass very personal, maternal meanings. I love this!
How lovely. I have a friend who collects all kinds of eggs and she has over 300 now. She rotates her display of them, and it’s beautiful.
I really like the way you’ve gathered your collection in the shimmering abalone shell – symbolizing warm, beautiful, protective motherhood, perhaps?
Tina, you are absolutely right. I fondle the eggs from time time, selecting one at a time to focus on.
Beth,
My husband was going to get me a mother’s day ring several years ago when the children where still at home. The jeweler swayed him against it because the three birthstones are yellow topaz, emerald, and ruby. She thought combining the gemstone colors would have a Christmas tree lights look with red, green, and yellow. He wasn’t sure so he came home and consulted with me. I told him I didn’t think the colors would look so bad but I like you am not really fond of mother rings so it all worked out.
The speckled one is the snowflake obsidian.
Shelly and Nancy,
Absolutely… it is absolutely a maternal collection. And the mother-of-pearl abalone shell is a perfect “womb” for my cherished eggs.
These are lovely. It’s a great idea!