Do girls still chant the mantra "He loves me, he loves me not..." while plucking the petals from a daisy? The chance that it might give me some insight into a boy's mind was all it took as a young girl to grab a daisy and start letting the petals fly until I got the answer I desired. Fields of wild daisies have been blooming for the past month in our area and it inspired me to think about this piece and how I would design it. I love the daisy's simplicity of shape.
I designed my latest necklace, He Loves Me, around a ceramic cabachon I purchased from Lisa Peters Art some time ago. Because of the childhood memory of that silly chant I knew I wanted the white petals to appear to be almost gone, some even still falling.
An antique button with steel-cuts and a daisy motif was the perfect clasp along with a hammered steel hook.
Pops of yellow gold throughout...
“The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.” ~ Robert Burns