When I was young I remember my mother carried a key chain on her purse that had little red and black seeds attached to little elephant charms. She told me that they bring you good fortune and ward off the evil eye and were called Huayruro (why • ru• do) or known commonly as lucky seeds. They even resembled little lady bugs.  I began to find them every where or perhaps they were finding me. I’ve since collected them and given them out to people I cared for and eventually anyone who crossed paths with me so the seeds could bring them good luck and protection.

I started to make jewelry with the seeds first as little friendship bracelets then other things like earrings and as necklaces in little vials (in Peru they collect the seeds in jars for luck). I simultaneously got into wire wrapping and I always gravitated to a spiral-coil shape when wrapping anything. I see coils as a means amplify energy and I loved to work with copper being that it is a natural conductor of energy. Everything I make I create it with intention with that said combining the copper and the coil shape with the lucky seeds is intended to act as an amplifier for the seeds.