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This shop is a shop on wheels and spends most of its time in remote areas harvesting inspiration from the wild, adventures, and freedom. Communication could be delayed due to limited cell range, and shipments are designated to go out on Mondays, but please do not hesitate to reach me by email at [email protected], and I will respond as soon as I can.

05/20/2021

The Daydream
All my senses feel pulled into the trees, noticing all the little leaves gently swaying with every tiny gust of wind. It’s like they’re communicating with each other…with the forest. Nodding. Waving. Giggling. Breathing. I feel a yearning in my chest…a sort of homesickness, but not for a home behind walls, under a roof, and smothered by humans. It’s more like a calling to return to the primal self…return to being an animal…to go home…released back into the wild. It’s an overpowering feeling…hypnotic with a twinge of heart break.

It’s like I hear her trying to persuade me to leave it all behind, but our languages have been separated at birth, and I’ve been raised to speak a different language other than the one she speaks, than the one we were all born to learn…the language of the universe…that translates the wind, the ripples in the water, the dirt, the shadows, the clouds, and mood of the wilderness…the language that’s been stolen from us all…I don’t know if I could learn it this late in the game…be fluent enough to get by…on my own.

As I stand on the edge of the dense unknown, at her open door swung wide open, with nothing but myself in the way, she says I’ll thrive and love it if I just made the leap…break out of the system…completely…go all the way. It’s so close. It’s right there. The final leap. To unfathomable freedom. The more I tune in, it’s like this drumbeat gets louder in my heart - matching the rhythm of the forest. The more I see society for what it is, the more I daydream about breaking free and escaping into the wild.

05/18/2021

There’s this dark forest that I didn’t realize I was in. I didn’t know there was anything else. I’ve been in it my whole life. But I always felt something was off - there was always this feeling of needing to escape, but I didn’t know from what or why or to where, and it always pushed me to wander, and the more I wandered, the more I started to see tiny little bits of light. And every time I’d catch a glimpse, it tempted me deeper into the woods…where I started to get bigger glimpses of light…just enough to tempt me to keep searching…feeding my curiosity and hope that there was something more out there.

And one day the light got really bright, it lit up the whole entire forest, and I realized just how dark the forest really had been. When the lights came on, it was horrifying to see what I had been surrounded by…and navigating my way through…this forest was terrifying! It was almost better with the lights completely off! But only if I chose to stay inside the forest. When the lights came on, though, I realized there was a way to navigate around all the beasts, traps, and terror. With the lights on, I have found there’s a way out.

Things are finally falling into place. I think the worst is over now. Thanks for being on this journey with me.

New batch available at www.TheBraceletSlinger.com and a couple on Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/thebraceletslinger ✨

03/14/2021

The Art of Emotions

My art comes from my emotions the way a broken heart writes a song. I feel my bracelets come most alive when my heart is overwhelmed and needs an outlet for pint up energy. It’s when my voice wants to sing or scream, my arms want to hold on tight or push away too far, my eyes want to see everything all at once or wash the world away with tears...and by putting all that energy into something tangible...I am able to turn it into something meaningful. Otherwise, what a waste of so much powerful energy. When the emotions get to be too much to handle, that’s when I scramble to turn them into colors, metaphors, images, strings I can wrap around my fingers to pull my mind out of reality and spin into a dream. And sometimes when I feel nothing...I scramble just to scramble again.

Who am I without my emotions? Without them, I have nothing to figure out, no art to make, and nothing to give. As much as they wreck me, they keep me moving into spaces I would not otherwise go...being with my emotions keeps this wandering life in motion. I believe to be an artist, you can’t be scared to feel all the feelings - it would be the same as being scared of the paint. And you must embrace making mistakes the exact same as embracing freedom - the best art is in the mistakes and the biggest mistakes come from the freedom to make them. And most of all, you have to be able to create light from the darkest and loneliest corners of the mind...that’s where the spirit howls...that’s where the night sings...that’s how the wild souls find each other.

New designs, new ideas, new bracelets from the new neural pathways of my brain - coming soon! 😊

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03/04/2021

Checking out of Facebook again due to weak cell signal in the new location. Check the stories, blog, or Instagram for updates.

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02/28/2021

The Pinnacles ✨

At the end of a long dirt road is a fortress built by the hands of time with the raw materials of the earth. Every gust of wind and bit of sand has helped put these pinnacles into place. And because of it, there is a magnificent feeling of protection, wonder, and magic...with a powerful reminder that every tiny thing within every given moment has a purpose. I hope this new batch captures this energy and reminds you of the magnificence of time and nature and how they are slowly and beautifully coming together to create you.

Available today at 10a Pacific time.
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02/27/2021

Windblown ✨

It’s in the wind that dreams come true...it’s the highway to the heart...the wings of faith...the ticket to your unique soul. It’s the paths unplanned that break us out of the ordinary...and take us to a world beyond the mold and farther than the imagination...and the more you let go, the quicker the wind will take you there.

Coming soon...straight from The Pinnacles of Trona. ✨
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02/26/2021

Made by Life
I don’t know where I’d be without these bracelets. I don’t know if I make them, or if they’re making me. We’ve come a long way together...slowly...sometimes taking breaks from each other...but now leaning on one another more than ever before. They’ve become my world...the reason I get up, my support, my art, my work, my income, my tuition, my school, my philosophy, my medicine, my therapy, my thoughts, my heart, my travels, my journey, my adventures, my friend, my family, my home, and my love. We are intertwined. We are made by each other. And if we were pulled from one another, we most certainly would come undone. Even if somebody attempted to replicate them or me, they wouldn’t be complete without our story...where they’ve come from...how they’ve gotten here...and they wouldn’t be heading the same way we’re going. Because we are not made by hand...we are made by life.

02/24/2021

Survival of the Mind
My mind is still a trigger ready to be pulled, and trust is elusive and skittish...a harrowing combination. I need a lot of space. I need the openness to come and go. The moment I feel like I’m being lured in...I feel my upper back tense, my jaw clench, and my mind is guarded behind thick steel walls. I must keep their pain out...I must keep their tortured wisdom out...I must stay away from their coping methods that are most definitely not my own. I feel doom is on its way. So I run before I freeze. I fight for freedom with keeping my distance from society and everybody who has been harmed by it. They want me to be like them. They think I will live longer, be happier, be safer...with them. But that keeps their finger on my mind - always ready to be pulled. That keeps me trapped and clawing for a way out. I trust my distrust. I feel safe with what and how I’ve learned to survive. It’s worked for me. It’s the only way I feel safe. It’s the only way to keep out of the steel cage. Keep myself from becoming a machine. Out here, I feel safe. I feel peace. I feel free. I feel human. They want me under a roof. They want me tied to a bank. They want me in one place. They want me buried in stuff. They want me to be somebody else. They don’t even like me aging. They want me married to a man. They want me to turn against myself. They want me to live my life by killing myself saving up. They want me to take all the mistakes I’ve made and take them out on my children. They want to convince me that I’m wrong, and they’re right. But the more they try to convince me, the farther out I go.

02/20/2021

Made by the Eyes that See Them

I wonder what my bracelets look like from the eyes of others. I think it’s different when you make them...I see their flaws and weaknesses, where they came from, and mostly worry about how long they will hold up - I want them to last forever...but also know that that’s the touch of handmade...and lasting forever is not where the beauty is, neither is perfection. Something that’s manufactured and lasts forever loses it delicacy...and for someone who looks deeper than that, is looking for something a bit more rare...something that goes deeper than the surface...something that isn’t for everybody, but is uniquely just right for them. And therefore, I think they’re seen differently and uniquely through the eyes of the person who looks at them.

There was this bracelet in Thailand that spoke to me...the threads looked like they’d last about a day. One of the beads was kind of dangling and on its way out. Maybe it was a vintage piece or maybe a child made it...I don’t know. But I had to have it. The shop lady tried to persuade me to get something else instead...but there was nothing like it. I knew it wouldn’t last forever...I don’t even know where it is now. But it was the mark it left, the part of the journey it joined me on, the lesson it taught me about the value of imperfection...and in that way, the bracelet lasted forever. And the part I remember the most is where it came from and that one dangling bead.

New small batch coming soon.

02/15/2021

“Journey of the Sun”

The sun travels to the other side of the world, nourishing all the life and wonders of the Earth. The sun...the most wise, humble, and steady traveler...sharing its gifts with everyone and everything without discrimination, need for attention, or payment of any sort. Traveling across all the skies of the Earth through the entire existence of the universe and into the future for years and years to come. Such a role model to look up to, this journey of the sun. What a powerful path to follow and the purest one to trust.

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