Here we are almost at the end of February and I’ve managed to make my second ring. The theme this month was Music and Lyrics and I have to say, it was a tricky one! In the end I decided to go for a simple stamped ring band. But then the next problem was: what lyrics could I stamp on the ring?
The artist was easy, I’ve long been a fan of Paul Kelly, an iconic Australian musician whose lyrics are evocative and poetic. However, Paul Kelly has a back catalogue of hundreds of songs. I really would have liked to do the iconic line “From little things, big things grow” from the song of the same name but it had too many words for a ring! Maybe one of these days I will decorate a bracelet or a necklace with those words.
Instead I pulled a line from a song that always reminds me of the early days with my husband, We’ve Started a Fire, both because of the lyrics and because the album came out at that time, so we would listen to it a lot.
The lyrics in the second verse are:
Kiss me, then let me go before the sun is high
One kiss—one spark!
Danger when the powder is dry
We’re just two children playing with matches
Hidden from the world
We’ve started a fire
We’ve started a fire
We’ve started a fire
We can’t put out
(Paul Kelly 1994, from the album Wanted Man)
The ring is made with a pewter ring blank from Beaducation and stamped with the second line above — one kiss one spark — I stamped it on the flat blank and then shaped it.
As you can see, I actually made two rings, one for me and one for him.
Next month’s theme has just been announced — you’ll have to wait and see what it is. But I think it’s time I started playing with fire, don’t you think?
