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I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

I’ve always loved to create, and being able to share what I create with people all over the world is more than gratifying. I’m preserving fragile life and giving it a new one with a new purpose. Children and adults alike see butterflies with an unmatched delicate beauty that’s almost magical, and to let that go to waste is a shame. My creative works have inspired people, give them the confidence they didn’t see before in themselves, and remind people that there’s still beauty in things they may have forgotten to see.

I find most of my wings myself. I’m definitely not squeamish when it comes to collecting dead cicadas or other insects from underneath the trees. Luckily I have some amazing friends and followers I’ve connected with that donate their winged finds to me to create with. I also work with butterfly and moth breeders that raise caterpillars to release into the wild populations that send me the ones that don’t make it. Estate sales and little antique or thrift stores have also scored me amazing finds from old insect collections to shadowboxes, and other neat things.

There’s so much beauty to be seen in even the smallest of things that nature provides, and I want to capture that and let others see it the way I do because I’m so inspired by it. What I create with real insect wings is a way for me to preserve and immortalize their beauty and spirit. I give them a new life – a new purpose, but in a magical and ethereal way with iridescence and quality and durability with resin. I want to create magic for people like fairies really exist!

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Cicada Wing Earrings Close Up

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Wings in Progress

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Large Cicada Wing Earrings

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Iridescent Luna Moth on Vintage Deer Skull

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Pink Cicada Wing Earrings

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Real Dragonfly Wing Bracelets

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Real Butterfly and Moth Wall Decor

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Matching Luna Moth Necklaces with Moonstone

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Silk Moth Wall Hanging with Quartz Crystals

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Iridescent Small Cicada Wing Earrings

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Silk Moth Pendant with Labradorite

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Luna Moth Necklace with Labradorite

I Create Magical Pieces With Real Insect Wings To Give Them New Life

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Iridescent Moth Details

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I am Kristen, owner and creator of KristenJarvisART. All of my art is fairy inspired. My signature product that started it all is my fairy wing earrings, made using genuine cicada wings! All of my creations showcase items that are found in nature, such as, crystals, bones, insect wings, as well as other things, all with an added magical fay touch

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This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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