Celebrating Mother's Day with Our Blessed Mother Bracelets

This week I created several bracelets honoring Our Blessed Mother for Mother's Day.  Each one with it's own inspiration but same love and devotion.

One honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe using a beautiful pink and white cameo of Our Lady of Guadalupe, beautiful large blue enamel medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal and among beads I added pink polymer clay roses

Another bracelet is honoring Our Lady of Miraculous Medal using vintage medals and bracelet

Another bracelet honoring Our Lady of Perpetual Help using a stunning large medal of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and adding a brass crown.  I used natural Mother of Pearl beads and beautiful lucite trumpet flowers 

Mary's Way of the Cross

This week I wanted to post something spiritual and reflecting on Our Lord's Sacrifice and Our Blessed Mother's Sorrows and also reflecting on our own personal life and how to make changes but my mind was completely blocked and could not think on anything.

Today I received an email from Rick, a great return buyer from my store and stated he felt he needed to share "Mary's Way of the Cross", narrated by Angelina cd but didn't know why.

I was completely amazed on him sharing and I looked it up and found these amazing videos that are perfect for what I wanted to listen and share this week.  I am forever grateful to him for being the messenger and trusting his heart to share with me even if he didn't know why.

They are amazing, very moving and touching to helps to reflect within and try to mirror ourselves in Mary.

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Nostalgia

This week I was inspired to create a couple of bracelets with the Nostalgia of past times when pictures were black and white.

Maybe a reminiscence time where I believe there was more fervor in praying and getting closer to all Divine.
For some reason those pictures do bring a very sensitive part of me.  Sensitive in the sense of being in touch with the Spiritual more.

I have always loved antiques and the pictures I used on these couple of bracelets bring that feel to them.

One I created honoring Our Lady of Sorrows

In this bracelet I used a beautiful image of Our Lady of Sorrows in black and white adorned with clear rhinestones.  Using beautiful white foil glass hears, to express Her Love for humanity that She accepted being Mother to Our Lord and knowing His Sacrifice for humanity, and black and white lampwork glass beads.

I incorporated pink roses also representing Her Love and a reminder that Her Love will always be with us.

Another bracelet I created is honoring Our Lady of Lourdes

Also using a beautiful image of Our Lady of Lourdes in black and white and adorned with clear rhinestones as well.

I created a beautiful pendant using a vintage brooch, converted into pendant, and adding a vintage medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal and adorned with clear rhinestones to make the medal stand out.

On this bracelet the colors are more subtle using beautiful smokey lavender, very unique color, beads and beautiful Earth tone Czech. glass beads to accent the white pearls and to make the pendant stand out more, I used a beautiful handcrafted red rose created by my daughter-in-law, Ya-Ya.

What is to create a Catholic Religious Piece of Jewelry for me

.  It is a dedication for the Love of God, the Blessed Mother, Angels and Saints and not as a fashion statement, or that you will be making money, it’s more than that.

When I first began my journey with my creations based on a special vision I had several years ago, I didn’t realize the responsibility, if I may say that, that will come with creating a piece to touch someone’s life.  I realized it was part of my mission but never realized my journey to begin.

As time passed and I felt that God really had this mission for me and that is when another  Spiritual journey began for me and there were times, I have to be honest, I felt maybe it wasn’t for me, because the spiritual warfare also began and there were times when I felt I should just try something else, maybe God had something else planned for me.  There were times when I didn’t have any money to buy the supplies but God provided sending earth angels to send me free supplies and medals and I am forever thankful to those earth angels and those beautiful earth angels are still around and from time to time, I still get supplies or relic pieces to be able to touch my jewelry to benefit others.

With time I realized I had so much to learn and experience on that Spiritual journey and warfare that made me stronger in faith and I wasn't realizing it at the moment but now I can say, I understand why we have to go through what we do.

When I receive an email from a buyer on how a piece made their faith stronger, how a loved one was touched by a piece, when people share their own turmoil in life, like losing a love one,  a mother losing a child by drowning, people diagnosed with cancer, divorce, losing a job, I realized that was part of my journey as well, having the faith and strength to encourage them, provide prayers, refer them to where they will get some help and I also thank all those earth angels I have met on Facebook as well, always ready to provide assistance or prayers.

I am also forever grateful to all my customers that have kept me strong and also in their prayers.  I will always appreciate them.

I thank God and Our Blessed Mother for loving me and not letting go of my hand and guide me.

I felt the inspiration to share with you part of my experience and I know there are many other artisans of religious jewelry or art that are also part of God’s way to help others through their own art and love.

Aborted Babies and Limbo

I know this may be a controversial topic speaking of babies, or better yet, aborted babies and limbo.

 For many years, I believed that all babies that died so tragically, specially aborted babies, will transcend into heaven to the hands of Our Blessed Mother and Our Lord Jesus because they are without sin and this has also been a debate in religion but I don't believe they go to limbo based on if they were baptized or not, which it does matter but I see abortion as a sacrifice of these innocent souls.

An abortion is taking the life of a beautiful soul created by God and making that soul suffer the agony of horrific pain, having their limbs torn to pieces, pure evil torture and that is exactly what I am heading, about the evil behind all these abortions.

If people think a fetus has no life or soul, why does he/she grows, breaths, eats and in many cases fight for his/her life in the womb when being aborted.

For years intermittently I have been shown limbo or purgatory, this awful place and that all those people need prayer and someone to guide them out of there into the light of Our Lord and Blessed Mother but I had never experienced babies until recently.

 For over a month now Our Lord and Blessed Mother have been showing me these babies being in limbo, pure evil lurking there, darkness, ash, mud and these evil spirits holding on to these beautiful souls because their parents sacrificed these souls and evil spirits will take the soul immediately specially if no one is praying for them.  This place is not like hell, there is no fire, only ash, mud, awful smell and darkness with evil entities.  When I say sacrificed, they may have not done it ritually, but when they want to give them up in such a horrific way, I consider it sacrifice.

My recent experiences have been being there seeing these babies in this ashy place with evil spirits and it just broke my heart and a rude awakening for me being able to see and experience this horrific ordeal for these beautiful souls.  In some instances I had received messages for prayer to help these babies transcend and in some instances I see myself carrying these babies out of that horrific place and of course, without a fight because these entities want to keep them.

Lets unite in prayer so God touches everyone's hearts and stop all this abortion and sacrifices of all this innocent souls and also unite in prayer for all those souls to be taken to heaven by God's angels and be rescued.

I know Our Blessed Mother wants us to continue praying the Rosary specially for those precious souls. 

I implore each one of you to please say a rosary for all aborted children or a Prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory or limbo

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My Creations

Virgencita Our Lady of Guadalupe

Virgencita meaning "The Little Virgin", which is a beautiful rendition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a child like image to reach out to children or adults with a heart to love Our Lady of Guadalupe as a child.

These beautiful creations have been created by my daughter-in-law YaYa at 2ingeniousvirgencitas and is currently offering them on ebay and Etsy

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