The Fable Tribe's New Spoon Glamourkins

[windinthemaples]

Most of you probably already know, but the creative and spiritual powerhouses behind Glamourkin have launched a new store on Etsy, The Fable Tribe to sell a greater variety of their handiwork. I was lucky earlier this month to get one of the first of their Spoon Glamourkins. Lucky, because I would have never bought one on my own.

(That's daring and shameful to admit of my best friends' work, yes? ;) I'll tell you why.)

I'm no fan of spoon crafts. Spoons drilled and marketed as clanking wind chimes or bent into awkward, uncomfortable spoon bangle bracelets disappoint me. I think the spoon is a perfected form all by itself. It is no more improved by being warped and twisted and repurposed than my great-grandmother's antique wedding dress would be improved by being cut into a hundred square dinner napkins. I am adamantly anti-spoon art. In my mind, spoons already are art.

So, you see, I would have never bought one of the Glamourkin spoon pendants out of my spoon-art prejudice and I would have never known what I was missing. The pendant I have, like all Glamourkins, has a spiritual richness and resonance that speaks to me. The color is astonishingly vibrant and jewel-like, flashing and sparking in the light, but the feel of it is mesmerizing. The weight and worry-stone smoothness of the bowl, resting against my heart on a long chain, the slick warmth of the epoxy under my thumb, the energy of all the hands that held it, all the life of the foods it carried, glowing comfortingly in an aura around the worn silver. It is perhaps the most magical item I've ever gotten from Glamourkin, in years of loyal patronage, and I would have dismissed it from the start, had I never seen one or carried one in person, as simply not-for-me.

Now I'm biding my time until I can afford one in that outrageously, joyously sparkle silver or gold. I can admit when I'm wrong--and I was wrong. Sometimes, sometimes, it turns out that the spoon can be improved upon and given a new, higher purpose in life. Once other people start to see and feel and experience these new Glamourkins in person, I know they won't be hanging around the shop very long.

Comments

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

*laughing* <3 I'm so glad we were able to change your mind so much. Wow--that's a very strong change. ;D <3 I'm so glad you love it so much, Rachel--that means ten times more to me now. :)

I'm going to be making a post in the next week on WHY we do spoon pendants--can I copy and paste this, linking back to your LJ? <3 *LOVE*!

(And, also, thank you: you made my day. <3333333333)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Sure! You can quote me anytime. I was hoping you wouldn't cry and torch your hacksaw before you got to the second half of my post. ;)

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

*laughing* I love my hacksaw! I would never torch poor Bonnie. ;D <333333333 (Naming things that could cut off Very Important Limbs, I think, makes them less likely to actually cut off Very Important Limbs.)

<3 Thanks~

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Dear Bonnie,

Please give no disfiguring injuries to my friend, Sarah. She knows not what she does.

Sincerely,

Rachel

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

*laughing so hard* AMEN. XDDDDDDDDDD <33333333

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Happy March, by the way. A damned auspicious time to embark on a new venture, I imagine, if fortune cookies are to be believed. ;)

Otherwise known as:

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Grin your way through your last two weeks at work, baby!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I also meant to extend the offer, should it ever be useful in your Fable Tribe work, to provide lake stones and sea glass en masse if you ever need any. :) Hand-picked, none of that fake rock-tumbler glass. :D

[neva-butterfly.livejournal.com]

So nice to hear--it's hard to capture that, the feel and spirit of an item in a picture. A spoonful of sparkle makes the mundane world go round? Anyway, I am pro-spoon, so I didn't need convincing, but still very interesting.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

It is hard to capture. Impossible, I think. The spoon pendants are so light catching and reflective, so visually dynamic, photography is pretty crap at capturing how they look in person. That and, unlike the traditional Glamourkin pendants which are more 2D, these are fully and beautifully three dimensional--which also isn't captured in a photo. Very frustrating. :)

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

I'm saving up for a couple because I think they'd look so pretty dangling in my kitchen window. I was never anti-spoon art, but neither was I particularly in love with the idea before. But I knew if anyone could make spoons into something (more) special, it would be Sarah and Jenn. Just have to wait for my spending money to accumulate so I can snag a few. :D

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh. They'd be spectacular hanging in a window. That's a genius idea! *files away for later*

its not about the spoons for me! :)

[xelasminin.livejournal.com]

I realized awhile ago you must of downsized your friends list. (If I did or said anything to offend you....please let me say I'm sorry in advance for any such thing).

I was going to go ahead and delete you off my LJ list since you had but something just said to hang on. I enjoy your writings. I saw you LJ about these glamourkins and I remember you saying before that when you found that special one you would know. Well I decided to go have a look today, I look around here and there at them anyhow because I really love them even though I hadn't bought one before.

The VERY 1st one on the list said, "never alone, whispered the stars" and the tears immediately brimmed. I thought I could walk away, but every time I went back to look at it it kept happening.

This glamourkin will be healing to me. I lost a friend to a tragic car accident 7 months ago. Its been a very hard time for me and coping with his death. Not only was he my friend but he was my photography mentor. I cannot explain how much his death has hurt me, crushed my spirit tremendously, and took away a small part of my life. I've felt alone a lot lately, hurt, so VERY angry he's gone. I just have had a hard time dealing.

Just last night I heard him speak to me, and then today stumbling across this pendant's saying....It just HAD to be mine, it spoke to me today in the way he spoke last night.

I cannot wait to get this in the mail, because now instead of feeling lost and alone he'll feel close to my heart.

Thank you.

Re: its not about the spoons for me! :)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

There is no need for apologies, you never offended me and I hope I haven't offended you! I did cut my friends list down quite a bit last year, hoping that by reading fewer journals I'd stay up to date with those I *was* reading. (I'm still behind on commenting, it turns out.) The journals I removed from my reading list, like yours, were people I hadn't had much contact with over the months. I didn't realize you were still reading my journal. I've added you back on. :)

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can only imagine how heart-wrenching such a sudden death was. I do know, though, that feeling when a Glamourkin is speaking directly to you, making you cry, giving you the message you needed to hear. I hope you find some peace. <3

Re: its not about the spoons for me! :)

[xelasminin.livejournal.com]

aww well I'm glad to know! :) And no you didn't offend me in any manor! I know people downsize their lists, etc and its cool! Good thing I'm a mature adult! LOL! Most of the time.

I wasn't keeping my journal for a really long time, besides Tony's death things were just bad all last year for me and what a rollercoaster of a ride for me so I just had nothing in me to give by commenting or journaling really.

I've never been so excited to get something in the mail! LOL! I will def. post about it and show it off! :)

and thanks for adding me back! :)

[cloverdew.livejournal.com]

Damn... it's gone. I LOOOOVED the very round gold one that was there. It was stunning.

I looove this one. It's very "Rachel". :)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I have it on the best authority that there will be more spoon pendants in the future. I've seen the gold/silver sparkle treatment in person and it is outrageously sparkly and delightful. Hopefully the stars will align, your perfect spoon will be listed when you have the money and mind to buy it, and all will be magickally-ever-after in your life. :D

I'm waiting in the wings for mine, too. :)