Hand Crafted Animal Totem Jewelry

New Year's Newsletter 2012

 
Newsletter features:

  • Closeout Sale on all PINS!
  • New Designs: Animal track charms!
  • Animals in the news: First confirmed wolf crosses into Western Oregon!
  • Donations of jewelry
  • Fog Affirmations: Musings on the subject of Fog!

 

Cascade Mountains / Winter scene
 

Closeout Sale on all pins!

We are discontinuing many of our pin designs. You will find pin prices drastically reduced in the Pins and Brooches folder.

The sale will continue until all of the closeout pins are sold....

http://www.brookestonejewelry.com/store/Pins--Brooches/25/0/animal-totem-jewelry-shop.php

New Designs:  Animal track charms!

raccoon track black bear track moose track

 

These charms are made with 2 layers of sterling silver; either pierced-and-patinated, or pierced-and-inlaid with pipestone, then scribed with the name of the animal on the back of each charm. They measure between ¾ inch and 1 ¼ inch apiece.

 Silver pierced charms:  $55.00

Silver pipestone-inlaid charms:  $65.00

 These make great stocking stuffers and great men’s jewelry!

 See them in our new Art Gallery folder, Animal Track Charms:

 http://www.brookestonejewelry.com/store/Animal-Track-Charms/26/0/animal-totem-jewelry-shop.php

 

 

More Charms!

Don’t forget to check out our other line of charms and totems in the Art Gallery folder “Charms and Amulets”:

http://www.brookestonejewelry.com/store/Charms-and-Amulets/16/0/animal-totem-jewelry-shop.php

Brooke Stone charms are large enough to be considered pendants on their own. Each order of charms comes with a length of sturdy leather cord!

 

Animals in the news
First Wolf in Decades Reported in SW Oregon

By The Associated Press
POSTED: 4:21 pm PDT November 1, 2011
MEDFORD, Ore. –

A 2-year-old male wolf from northeast Oregon has ventured over the crest of the Cascade Range and into Western Oregon.

Biologists say it's the first confirmed wolf in the area since one was killed in Douglas County and turned in for a bounty in 1946The wolf's transmitter collar shows it left the Imnaha Pack in Wallowa County on Sept. 10, wandered southwest as far as Lake County last week and then headed due west across the Cascades, said Russ Morgan, the state's wolf program coordinator.
It was in the Umpqua River drainage in northeastern Douglas County on Thursday.

"It's the first one in modern times to go in that direction, and he's really traveling," Morgan said. "He could turn around and go back. He could go to California or Idaho. There's no way to predict it."

Wolves have been known to travel more than 1,000 miles during their dispersal from a pack, Morgan said.
The wolf is designated OR-7 and was collared in February, he said.
Most dispersing wolves travel alone, and there was no indication one way or another that OR-7 was joined by any other animals, but Morgan said there was a "high likelihood" other wolves, without collars, have reached the Cascades.

Last month, a judge temporarily halted the Department of Fish and Wildlife's plans to shoot two of the state's wolves for killing livestock, which would bring the number down to 12, from a high of 21. Wolves migrated to Oregon from Idaho in the 1990s.
Reaction in southwest Oregon suggested more contention would follow wolves west of the Cascades.

"Our deer and elk populations suffer enough from cougar predation," said Duane Dungannon, spokesman for the Medford-based Oregon Hunters Association. "It won't do local game herds any good to deal with wolves."

Spencer Lennard, project director of Big Wildlife, said some studies show wolves help keep animals such as deer and elk from grazing freely along creekside riparian areas and damaging fish habitat.
"I think they need to be supported," he said. "They are critical ecological components to this land."

Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/

 

 

Donations of Jewelry

 This fall, Brooke Stone Jewelry has donated jewelry to these organizations’ fund-raisers:

 Ophelia’s Place in Eugene, Oregon, an organization which provides empowering opportunities for young women:

http://www.opheliasplace.net/?page_id=2

 Also, we donated to Greenhill Humane Society’s annual fundraiser Art for Animals, here in Eugene, Oregon. Greenhill is the largest animal shelter in Lane County, OR:

http://www.green-hill.org/

 

 

Imnaha Gorge in fog

 

Fog Affirmations

 We who live in the Pacific Northwest are intimately acquainted with Fog, and many people dread the coming of the dark time of the year.

Here are some of my musings about fog which may put a different perspective on the subject:

 Fog Affirmations

 Fog is a good anti-aging tonic. It plumps up my wrinkles and keeps my skin moist and smooth.

 Fog gives me a chance to bundle up and rediscover all my old woolens and rainbow-colored scarves, which have been packed away during the warmer months.

 Fog reduces the world to mono-chrome, just like real life, which is not black and white, but many shades of gray.

Fog raises the mundane to the mystical.
Fog intensifies the mystery and magic of everyday happenings. A group of deer crossing the pasture seems so much more meaningful in fog, as do foggy dew droplets caught on the tips of the tiesels in winter.

 Fog lends itself to meditation and introspection, which is the proper mode of thought during the dark time of the year.

 I have a favorite memory from 40 or so years back: a herd of wild angora goats – feral, probably – with their long curling, crinkly hair just tickling the ground, emerge from the fog among the dark pines at the top of the ridge. I stand spell-bound.

 Brooke Stone, 2011

Fog in pasture- Spencer Creek Valley

 

A discussion about FOG from The Book of Symbols, Reflections on Archetypal Images, a Taschen Book:

“….Fog is not favorable to direct action. Ships, planes and fast-moving humans are delayed or stopped. A slower, more cautious awareness arises. Symbolically, the world of clear rational thought gives way to dreaminess, ambiguity, a kind of knowing that is more nuanced, less absolute. This knowing is perhaps more valued in the East than in the West. Zen sage Keizan Zenji puts it:

 

          Though clear waters range to the vast
          blue autumn sky,
          How can they compare with
          the hazy moon on a spring night!
          Most people want to have pure clarity,
          But sweep as you will, you cannot empty
          the mind.

          Maezumi, iii

Happy Holidays to you from Brooke Stone Jewelry… May all your wishes come true!

 

 

 

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