Client Showcase: Glimmer & Grim
I’ve known Maria for years and years and years.
I first knew her as my older sister’s childhood best friend. I admit… I was that younger sister that desperately wanted to hang out with the cool, older girls! Like so much so that I would sit on the floor in the hallway outside of my sister’s bedroom door. Not totally sure what I was thinking would happen… that they’d open the door and be like, “Bre!!! You’ve become cool! Please, come in and hang with us as we do the things that cool older sisters do!”
Yeah, that never happened.
But, I did hang out with Maria recently!
And she was even cooler than I remember!
A few years back, Maria had a dream that she couldn’t ignore. From that dream, she began Glimmer and Grim.
Maria works exclusively with Swarovski Crystals because their sparkle and quality is second to none. She works at a small desk slowly placing and gluing each crystal by hand… stopping her progress to transition from artist to mom. Her two young sons are home with her in the summer, but now she’s down to her youngest at home with her every day since school started again.
I couldn’t help but be taken with her work.
She glues each crystal by hand, using a syringe to place the glue on the uneven bones. She’s entirely aware how odd her garbage and recycling bins must look… syringes from the witchy, suburban mom who stores her animal skulls in her kitchen cabinets to protect them from her very active sons!
Maria doesn’t even create a full design beforehand. She prefers to let the piece speak to her as she works on it to understand how this animal’s skull is meant to be decorated. How freakin’ cool is that?!?!
I mean… wow!
Take a look at our time together!