INSPIRITU JEWELRY, by Marie French

SPEAKING OF TALISMANS...(ok, it was just me......)                                                                  
                           

Yesterday I decided to sit out the rain at my local Barnes and Noble book store.

Loaded up with all my favorite magazines, a few books and a cup of coffee,

I found a big ol' chair in a back corner and settled in. 

This is the one that caught my eye and had to come home with me...........................

Inspiritu Jewelry by Marie French.

Here's a brief quote from the book:

(when coming upon a home where a curandera, or healing woman

was once thought to have lived)

........."I came to an old adobe house that was quite dilapidated, but I could tell it had been 

loved long ago. I decided to go in and take a look through the cobwebs and dust. It was there that I spotted the old prescription book. Leather-bound, with the names of her patients, illnesses and the how-to information to make her healing jewelry"......................................  

NO, this isn't a novel, it is an actual book on making jewelry .

There is for example directions for......"believe-in-myself "bracelet, and French tells why she chose the components she did and what properties each is believed to possess.

It's a fun read as well as giving very detailed and complete directions for making 

the different jewelry projects. 

Frenchs' bio says she is a "curandera" (healing woman)

from a small Texas town. If you like a little folklore and herbs

mixed in with your jewelry making this might be a good book for you.

It's also available at Amazon, but I didn't want to wait..............

  

You can also find French at:

http://inspiritustudios.blogspot.com/