The Beginning of the Eco ring

This really is the beginning of Victoria's Treasure Corner but its far from where it started. If you told me when I was younger I would be sat here talking about Eco rings that I create and design myself, I would have laughed. I know we often say those things but I was so far from reaching the path I'm on now that it really would have felt like a distant dream.

To imagine I could harness all my learnings not just educationally but the worldly lessons too. To then channel them into something I was not only passionate about myself; but something that people would invest in themselves by purchasing my creations and that they would fall in love with them too! Well yes I would have sighed a big relief, my path has not been an easy one but that's another Blog post entirely. 

Life is not always easy and I believe it can become so much harder when you fight against the person you're supposed to be. As a human woman I have many traits which are not exactly sociable, I don't like to pretend to be something I am not and the straight forward talking side of my personality can often be misconstrued for something more than it is. I am more at home swimming under a waterfall than I am in a bar, I'm fully adapted to being with people and gathering socially but as an empath it draws on me massively. I find myself accepting myself more and more as the time unfolds before me and with it I see the similarities within myself and nature even more. Because of course we are all a part of it, our segregation from that earthly world we once knew so well is the most unnatural progression we have attempted to make. We are not the top of the food chain, we are responsible for caring for it.

I can be still and silent like a calm water, the current underneath strong and full of will but sometimes unseen. Joyful and uplifted like the dancing winds. I can feel fire inside me burning from great possibilities to come and excitement, I can feel it burn from anger and hurt too. The one place I connect with the most is with the flowing river and the trees, the water like myself is ever moving and changing, never quite the same but always adapting and recreating itself, it cleanses us and renews us and all around it. While the trees run alongside the river breathing life into the world it takes from the river to feed its ever growing need to spread its arms and give back to the world that surrounds it. I feel connected to this deeply.

Why would I take from the trees for the eco rings if I love them so much? I was very torn with this when I was drawn towards the Bentwood rings! I loved thy symbolism of the wood, I loved the energy of it, the look at the feel but I didn't want these majestic trees to be hacked down and ripped up for the benefit of connection through my eco jewellery! Why would I want that, I didn't and so I refused the integration all together for quite a while. 

Research, research, research, it is so very hard to find ethical sources that you know are true to their word and their ethos but we all have to start somewhere and I would prefer to start their! So like with all things, I educated myself on forest farming and the different intentions for the forest farms intentional, integrated, intensive and interactive. Sometimes the forest farming can include felling of trees in order for everything to thrive, If i can source this wood I will and is up on the priorities list because its not based upon destruction but upon nature and nurture. Land that is used for the soul purpose of growing and harvesting trees in a cycle of life, something inside me doesn't warm to the option of this because its not a natural process; its a planned process by man, however the process does mean the trees are purposefully planted where they would not have been before. They are put on land which could have been bought to industrialise the area or build, build, build upon (honestly when will we stop with the endless building of environmentally damaging building and needles new roads). Although I don't like it, the option of taking baby steps towards a more forested earth (baby steps in the right direction rather than no steps is a better concept). Tearing down trees which have been around for hundreds of years with no intention but that of profit and land clearance, this is something I am trying my upmost to never unwittingly be a part of! 

I love nature, I want to be involved in protecting it and nourishing it like I do with my own children. Ultimately my aim is that my wood rings will come from my own woodland, a woodland that is preserved and protect by me and my family. A place where nature and humanity unite in the best of ways. My eco rings hold the story of my journey and the connection of yours! Enjoy them and feel the bond we hold to the earth. Could this be a part of your journey to a more connected and fulfilling lifestyle. Please feel free to check out Victorias Treasure Corner where I sell my Bentwood rings. Every ring brings us closer to that privately owned woodland that will be a start of a whole new story.

Love Victoria

Victorias Treasure Corner