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I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life
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Community member I've always loved to create, and being able to share what I create with people all over the world is more than gratifying. I'm preserving fragile life and giving it a new one with a new purpose. Children and adults alike see butterflies with an unmatched delicate beauty that's almost magical, and to let that go to waste is a shame. My creative works have inspired people, give them the confidence they didn't see before in themselves, and remind people that there's still beauty in things they may have forgotten to see. I find most of my wings myself. I'm definitely not squeamish when it comes to collecting dead cicadas or other insects from underneath the trees. Luckily I have some amazing friends and followers I've connected with that donate their winged finds to me to create with. I also work with butterfly and moth breeders that raise caterpillars to release into the wild populations that send me the ones that don't make it. Estate sales and little antique or thrift stores have also scored me amazing finds from old insect collections to shadowboxes, and other neat things. There's so much beauty to be seen in even the smallest of things that nature provides, and I want to capture that and let others see it the way I do because I'm so inspired by it. What I create with real insect wings is a way for me to preserve and immortalize their beauty and spirit. I give them a new life – a new purpose, but in a magical and ethereal way with iridescence and quality and durability with resin. I want to create magic for people like fairies really exist! More info: Etsy Cicada Wing Earrings Close Up
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Image credits: KristenJarvisART Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! 2Kviews Share on Facebook Kristen Jarvis Follow Unfollow Kristen Jarvis Author, Community member I am Kristen, owner and creator of KristenJarvisART. All of my art is fairy inspired. My signature product that started it all is my fairy wing earrings, made using genuine cicada wings! All of my creations showcase items that are found in nature, such as, crystals, bones, insect wings, as well as other things, all with an added magical fay touch Read more » Titas Burinskas Follow Unfollow Titas Burinskas Moderator, Community member This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before. Read more » Show All Contributors Get the latest inspiring stories via our awesome iOS app! Download Bored Panda app! 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"Luna moth on deer skull"? Yikes twice. -3 -3points reply Annnnd We’re Officially In Reverse Annnnd We’re Officially In Reverse Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You're so right. My apologies. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Cookie Panda Cookie Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all. 0 0points reply POST PopscotchM PopscotchM Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago i love them, assuming they are found on dead insects and not harvested live. 1 1point reply Cookie Panda Cookie Panda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They’re beautiful! 0 0points reply Katy Katy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago To each their own, but I think this is gross. "Luna moth on deer skull"? 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