I don't very often get into T.V. shows, but recently, I've gotten hooked on the new show "Once Upon a Time". I also recently finished the book "Mirror, Mirror" by "Wicked" author Gregory Maguire. What is constantly amazing to me is how deeply the themes in some of these fairy tales continue to have relevence in our lives. In younger days I always dismissed Snow White as being anti-feminist pish-posh. Lately, I've realized the Queen is the one I really identify with. True, she was a nasty piece of work and I don't recommend giving anyone a poison apple, literally or metaphorically. Still, she was a women looking in the mirror everyday and seeing the signs of age march accross her face in a time when probably, a women's beauty was one of her only real assets. And here was this younger beauty, probably a very real threat to her stability, and a constant reminder that she was slowing losing her youthful beauty.I'd like to think we live in better times than when the stry of Snow White takes place, but as I walk through the aisles at our local pharmacy, past jars full of $30 face cremes promising to make me look like I'm twenty, I wonder how much things have really changed. Perhaps the queen would not have had to take such drastic measures if she had a good Botox doctor in the kingdom. In any case, I made this necklace in honor of the Queen, and as a reminder this Valentine's day to look in the mirror and love ourselves, wrinkles and all.
