COVID Times and new creations

"It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I'll find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright..."

- The Beatles

 I got a reminder of not writing for a while and yes it was a hard year due to the worldwide COVID pandemic, which in a snap of a finger took us all by surprise and sent us all locked-down at HOME!

It was a year of great fear for the life of our dearest family, friends, co workers, neighbors and humanity's survival. It was a year we re-discovered and revealed the admiration of simplicity and being humble again. People all around were trying to help each other, support and care, share and invent new ways to provide for themselves as well as others and survive. People worldwide caring for each other. All conflicts were put down.

It was also a hard year, tough, with long days and nights under quarantine, longing for meeting our family and friends again and hug them, of loosing our freedom and mostly dreaming of better days to come.

I couldn't reach nature as much as I did before, dreaming of feeling the hot warm sand at my feet on the beach and smelling the sea again.

I felt the need to express this period in our life, which is not over yet but just eased up with getting the vaccine that protects us in the mean time.

I felt like melting hot metal and see how hard metal is turning in flames into a beautiful dancing liquid. To enjoy pouring it and see it transition to being solid again. I've created a new link chain that reflects both the hardness of this time, which through hard work brought to life new shapes and ideas. Hard times make us go out of our comfort zone and make us re-think a path to new ideas as life is stronger than we think.

 

 I've created a new link that is hard, thick and represents the chains that we were all locked up with in our homes, but it is also in a shape of a soft ribbon or a candy and reminds me of a gift wrap. It is a reminder that good things come in small packages like my kids, a smile or a gift box that has a surprise in it and the anticipation of opening the box and getting a glimpse of what's inside, is what we live for. A glimpse of the future and the hope for someone always to hold me tight as our home is our anchor, an island of sanity and stability. It's where we can let go of all that is outside and unknown.

 

Sterling silver handmade women's chain link bracelet

 

 

"When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight..."

Love you my dear family.

Thank you for the small things in life!

Irit