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Your birthday is like a private New Year's celebration-- a chance to reflect and look forward to the milestones you plan on reaching in the year to come. With this sentiment in mind, Jill Henrietta Davis created her birthstone wishing ball to capture a single wish, accomplishment, or meditation every week for the coming year. Each shimmering ball of hand-blown glass comes with 52 tiny slips of paper for you to pause once a week throughout the year and record a message of hope or gratitude. Coil them up and tuck them in the tiny hole near the base and they become a permanent part of the display.
People often ask Jill why the wishes can't come back out, and she explains in terms of birthday candles: "When you blow out your candles, you don't tell the wish you made, otherwise it won't come true. But more importantly, memories are always more beautiful than photographs, and the same is true of wishes. When you look at the little slips of paper accumulating in your Wishing Ball, I want you to think about the big picture those messages convey. Rereading the notes would be like looking backwards, or trying to step in the same river twice." Available in twelve vibrant hues that correspond to each month's birthstone. Handmade in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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During her freshman year studying fashion at the Parsons School of Design, Jill Davis realized her clothes were more like wearable sculpture than fashion. Wanting to stay at Parsons, she began exploring different departments. The day she walked into the glass studio and saw molten glass for the first time, her search was over. “Glass is the most challenging and rewarding material I have ever encountered,” says Jill. “You can’t bully it—you are perpetually persuading and coaxing the glass into shape. Even the best living master glass blowers cannot always get the glass to do what they want! It’s this feisty streak that keeps me enchanted.”
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Beautiful Gift!
Purchased for a 70th birthday celebration--I just know she's going to love it!
Purchased for a 70th birthday celebration--I just know she's going to love it!
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The ball is beautiful and I'm sure she will love it once she see's it on her bday. My only issue is why create a stand for it for display. It is a fragile...Read complete review
The ball is beautiful and I'm sure she will love it once she see's it on her bday. My only issue is why create a stand for it for display. It is a fragile product. I am going to run around over the weekend to see if I can find something to put the ball on for display.
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I love the idea. I pretty much understood it would not be a large ball like Gazer balls in the yard.
It is hand blown so the size is what you would normally see. I bought May (green) and it is beautiful. I wish the bottom could somehow open like a piggy bank has a black rubber piece in the base to allow you to remove the messages years later. That would be my one recommendation. Other than that, great idea and I will buy more in the future as I need a gift.
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I encouraged my granddaughter to add a positive note every week of her 13th year as a way to remind herself to look for the good things in her life. She loves the product and the idea of recording her blessings.
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Such a unique and thoughtful gift! Bought one for each of my parents and they have found it to be a fun and creative experience with an uplifting spirit.
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As I stated above, we have new family members who we don't know very well yet, so this is a perfect, thoughtful gift for each of them as they have their birthdays this year. Works for adults and children
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Everyone has dreams - What a perfect way to make a wish!
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These are as pretty as they look on the page and so unique. Lots of oooo's and ahhhh's when my niece opened her package! Everyone wanted to know where I found it. :-)
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It is serving the purpose of why it was purchased.
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This hand blown beautiful glass ball can be displayed any where.
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Beautiful gift, my boyfriend's birthday month is July so the red really worked well for Valentine's day. I enjoyed writing wishes for our relationship for it to start it off. I told him to add some if he wanted to. Looks great on his desk!
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I purchased this for my sister, a rather pragmatic and focus-on-the-concrete woman. My hope is that this gift will facilitate a bit more whimsy and creativity to her thinking and doing...
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