Elsa

The World Goes to Sleep, the Snow Falls, and Everything Becomes Extraordinary.

The Elsa Necklace is a luminous, cool, completely alive piece that honors one of the most extraordinary and most completely beautiful things the natural world does: the beauty of snow and ice in the winter season — the particular, breathtaking transformation that happens overnight when the snow falls and the world that was ordinary becomes, in the morning light, something so completely and so unexpectedly beautiful that you stop in the doorway and simply look, because the looking is the only appropriate response to something this extraordinary. Pure white and clear blue beads come together around a snowflake charm at approximately 14 inches — the most intimate length in the collection, sitting close at the throat like the winter air itself — in a palette as luminous, cool, and completely alive as the most beautiful winter morning in the world. Available in an approximately 14 in length.

Design & Materials

• Snowflake charm — for the most extraordinary and most completely individual thing the winter produces; the snowflake that is, as every child learns and every adult forgets to be amazed by, completely unique — no two alike in the entire history of winter, each one a particular, specific, entirely individual expression of the same cold and the same water and the same extraordinary natural process that produces, every time, something that has never existed before and will never exist again — a reminder that the most beautiful things in the world are always, at their most essential, completely and irreplaceably themselves
• White beads — for the luminosity and purity of a winter beauty that transforms everything it touches; the particular, extraordinary white of fresh snow — not the white of something blank or empty, but the white of something so completely full of light that it glows from within, turning the ordinary world into the most luminous and most completely beautiful version of itself
• Blue beads — for the depth and cold clarity of ice and winter sky; the clear, deep blue of a winter morning when the air is completely still and the sky is the particular, extraordinary blue that only exists in the coldest and most completely alive part of the year — the blue that makes everything beneath it feel more vivid, more real, and more completely, beautifully present
• Approximate length: ~14 in — the most intimate length in the collection, sitting close at the throat like the first breath of winter air — cool, clear, and completely, beautifully alive
• Handcrafted with care by Amelia Heir Art Designs

The Meaning Behind It

The beauty of snow and ice in the winter season — it is one of the most extraordinary and most completely unexpected kinds of beauty in the world, because it arrives without warning and transforms without effort. The world goes to sleep ordinary and wakes up magnificent. The bare branches that were stark and plain in the evening are, in the morning, covered in the most intricate and most completely alive lacework of ice and snow, each crystal catching the light in its own particular way, the whole of it so beautiful and so completely real that it seems impossible that it was made by nothing more than cold and water and the particular, extraordinary genius of the natural world doing what it has always done. The ones who love this beauty are the ones who are paying attention — who look out the window on a winter morning and feel, in the looking, the particular, quiet, completely genuine wonder of someone who has seen something extraordinary and knows it. Elsa is a necklace for those people — the ones who find the winter beautiful, who love the snow and the ice and the particular, luminous, completely alive quality of the world in its most cold and most extraordinary season — and for everyone who loves them and is grateful, every winter morning, for the particular gift of seeing the beauty through their eyes.

A perfect gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, winter, or any occasion that calls for celebrating someone whose love of the beauty of snow and ice — luminous, clear, and completely their own — makes the most extraordinary season of the year even more beautiful for everyone around them.

Every order arrives with a signature gift box, ready to give (example shown below the product)