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INSPIRATIONThe Barber's Daughters create content jewelry- jewelry with meaning, message or purpose. Engraving words of inspiration into semi and precious metals can be used as grounding agents or touch stones. In a world overrun by sensory overload, its easy to forget our 'whole' self. The inspiration of The Barber's Daughters is to provide tools for people to connect to their intangible beauty and strength. The inspiration is to create work that helps us shift our thinking from our head to our heart where we make better decisions.The significance of The Barber's Daughters moniker comes from growing up in a small village on the ocean coast of Cape Breton, Canada where a person's name doesn't mean much. Whose child you were means everything. As a design line this name invites everyone to be honored as someone's sons and daughters. G's INSPIRATIONIf you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace and beauty in this world.The living world is not 'out there' somewhere, but in your heart. Life is a miracle every moment of our existence. Shared sentiment expressed in these excerpts from Paul Hawken's commencement speech to Class of 2009. AMULETSmeaning "means of defense/shield". Almost every culture and religion have a representation of an amulet. Our goal is to create amulets that will act as a reminder to strengthen your truest and highest path to happiness.MALAS108 beads?The ancient Mala or Garland was originally hand-crafted in India, with a series of 108 beads, for the use of incarnation, purification, protection, strength, and blessing. The use of 108 is significant to the relationship between the rose of the heart and the universal divine. It is an integer divisible by the sum of its numbers, a symbol of the infinite possibility that unfolds from the universe to the self and from the self to the universe. 108 Suns fulfill the distance between the Sun and the Earth. 108 Moons fulfill the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth. The symbol of 108 resides in the rhythm of nature and the universe. It is infinite and complete, the sacred geometry of our being.
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