A Love That Was Complicated -Sara's Guided Experience
Sara approached me to create something to honor her late husband. Though they were divorced when he died, they share a son together, and she wanted a way to memorialize and remember him with love: the love they shared - the love that bore this sweet boy.
We started with a poem and a stone.
Words he penned early in their love, enamored by her blue green eyes:
I've watched the stars and seen the past
and all the shadows their light has cast
into this heart that rarely warms
two oceans blue
sometimes green
a gateway rarely seen
mind me not
when I stare in
It warms my blood
and heart again
The stone was chosen for its blues and greens, which echo the colors in Sara's ocean eyes.
They'd gotten married. They had a son. They got divorced. The relationship was complicated, but they were working on it for the sake of raising their son together.
And then, unexpectedly, her ex husband died.
Though the relationship had ended, there was love. There was a history, and losing someone, even when you are no longer together, is devastating. The loss was profound and made all the more difficult because there was no funeral, no gathering in grief, no "closure".
At the end of this weekend, Sara put the locket on, and with tears shining in her beautiful blue green eyes, she said: "I feel like I finally have closure."
The magic of etching revealing the poem in his handwriting, etched into the silver.
Sara works at the bench, sawing out her locket.
Building confidence with the torch. Sara soldered everything except the hinges!
The locket form is starting to come together.
Marking the locket to position the bail.
Hand polishing the inside back of the locket.
Setting the stone.
