WEEK 11 - 29/09/11 - DISAPPOINTMENT

"When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman." — Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

-    LORENA    - Jo made me think of the flying fishes: the need to be or do something opposed to nature itself could be disappointing or frustrating, but only until you manage to be what you want to without losing your essence. This necklace is inspired by the blend of fish scales and wings, that as imposible as it may sound, it exists. /oxidized silver necklace

-    DAPHNE    - if one finds itself trapped in its surroundings. it looks for a way out... and most likely will hurdle over itself, over and over again. though I am convinced that these hurdles will eventually result in finding the way out.

WEEK 10 - 23/09/11 - DISAPPOINTMENT

"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue." — Samuel Johnson

-    LORENA    - When the known path is closed, a more interesting one might open.

-    DAPHNE    - the little wooden box contains all the images to the mind and all the words unsaid. to be worn as a little token and as a memory that disappointment is only something within.

WEEK 9 - 16/09/11 - DISAPPOINTMENT

"If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen." — Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

-    LORENA    - A fancy vintage photo frame hanged to the neck through a chain. It's empty, because its purpose is to stop for a moment and observe everyday events paying them the attention they deserve as if they were a masterpiece. And it's small, because many times the smallest and apparently most insignificant things are the ones that make us really happy, and the ones that hold up the bigger things together.

-    DAPHNE    - nothing is perfect, but I like it anyway

WEEK 8 - 01/09/11 - NERVOUSNESS

"I don't get nervous if I'm surrounded by beautiful women. I know they're all too busy hating each other to notice me." — Unknown

-    LORENA    - The plainest but genuine might stand out between the flashy

-    DAPHNE    - I don't get nervous because I know I am the gem. I don't want to be noticed, let them all shine around me and bite each other. inside is what counts. the 'white' squares are made of paper and sprayed in silver. the 'black' square is made of real silver and blackened. simply attached with a pin on the back side.