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Happy full moon & welcome to the 10th issue of the Luna De Sangre Newsletter! ⊹ ࣪ ˖
Tonights full moon is the first full moon of spring and according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, this particular full moon is what’s called a “pink moon”. This April full moon was given the name “pink moon”, after the phlox subulata plant, a bright pink flowering plant that begins to bloom around this time of year…
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As we welcome tonights “pink moon”, let us also welcome the 40+ new subscribers of this newsletter! Shortly after I released the new ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet, I received quite the influx of new subscribers. If this is your first time receiving this newsletter in your inbox, I would like to formally say hello and thank you so much for subscribing! I am just so incredibly grateful that my jewelry sparked your interest last week, enough for you to want to keep up with my work and other life updates. From here forward, on the night of every full moon, you can expect to receive a newsletter from yours truly. Within these monthly newsletters you’ll find details regarding all of my new and upcoming collections, my many sources of inspiration for these collections such as paintings, poetry, music, etc., and other life updates. Ultimately, this newsletter serves as a place where I get to further connect with you, outside of social media, so believe me when I say that I am so very happy to welcome you here and I do hope you stay awhile. ♡
In tonights newsletter, I will be sharing with you the details behind the new ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet: my inspiration for creating the piece as well as when you can expect a restock. I will also share a poet I recently discovered, a review for an amazing book I read last week and lastly, I have a restaurant recommendation for my New York based subscribers! We have quite a bit to discuss tonight so let’s begin…
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The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet
The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet ✣ Luna De Sangre
The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet is a rosary themed adornment based on an anklet I released in the summer of 2024, the ‘Constanze’ Rosary Anklet.
The original ‘Constanze’ anklet continues to be one of my top selling pieces and is genuinely one of my all time favorite pieces of jewelry to recreate. At this point, I’ve made and shipped out over one hundred ‘Constanze’ anklets and I truly believe that this is all muscle memory, that I can now make this anklet with my eyes closed. Being able to recreate the same jewelry piece over and over again and never get tired of the design process has been such a delight and I will continue to make this piece for you guys for as long as you continue to ask for it. Before releasing ‘Constanze’, I had no idea what the demand for this piece would look like, how popular an anklet could be, but one thing I did know is that one day she was going to need a sister.
Whilst designing the new ‘Maddalena’ anklet, I knew I wanted to keep the ornate details that made the ‘Constanze’ anklet so special; the ornately draped chain, the elongated centerpiece, the filigree box clasp, etc. The main difference between the ‘Constanze’ anklet and this new piece would be that ‘Maddalena’ would lean more towards a look of antiquity. Rather than stainless steel, this piece would be made entirely of antique bronze. Rather than bright ivory pearls, this piece would feature deep garnet red crystals adorned with bronze scalloped bead caps. Shortly after gathering the many supplies needed to make this piece exactly as I had envisioned, Maddalena was born…
 The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet ✣ Luna De Sangre |  The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet ✣ Luna De Sangre |
⭑ Naming the Anklet ⭑
I decided to name this piece after the anklets focal point, the solid bronze Mary Magdalene rosary charm (pictured below).
The name ‘Maddalena’ is of Italian origin, deriving from the biblical ‘Mary Magdalene’. It is also the name of the ‘Maddalena in Pianto’, the “weeping Magdalene” featured in Caravaggios (1606) painting, ‘The Death of the Virgin’ (pictured below).
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‘The Death of the Virgin’ ✣ Caravaggio (1606)
 Details of ‘The Death of the Virgin’ ✣ Caravaggio (1606) |  Details of ‘The Death of the Virgin’ ✣ Caravaggio (1606) |
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⭑ Anklet Restock ⭑
The ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet sold out in under eighteen hours but if you had the chance to snag her, I cannot thank you enough. Your support of my small business means the world to me and I cannot wait for you to receive your jewelry.
If you were interested in purchasing this piece but missed the first release, I have since located and purchased inventory to make (75) more of these anklets. So yes, the ‘Maddalena’ Rosary Anklet will indeed have a restock! You can expect the restock to occur sometime during the final week of April, (4/23 - 4/30). I plan on restocking this piece in small batches of (25) every 2-3 weeks. Although I cannot currently disclose the exact date and time for the next restock, as I still have orders from the first release to ship out, I will absolutely announce the offical restock day over on my Instagram page, @lunadesangre. I have also begun to keep a list of those who wish to be notified of the restock via email, if you would like to be added to this list, please submit your name and email in the comment section down below or email me at [email protected]
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⊹ As always, the entire shop is now 20% off in celebration of the full moon ⊹
Use the code: FULLMOON
at checkout to take 20% off of your entire order…
⊹ (sale ends 4/15 at midnight est) ⊹
Fernando Pessoa
 Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems ✣ Translated & Edited by Richard Zenith |  Fernando Pessoa ✣ (1888-1935) |
I’ve fallen in love with a new poet, Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa (1888-1935) was a Portuguese poet and writer. In the collection, ‘Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems’, the translator of the book, Richard Zenith, describes Pessoa as someone who “did not believe in art for art’s sake.”
“Art was merely for his sake, without fanfare or higher purpose. It was a means of survival, a pastime, his crochet, his solitaire.”
Much like the poetess Sappho, many of Pessoa’s works had to be thoroughly deciphered and pieced together, many of which remain uncompleted.
Of the few that are completed are the poems, “I seem to be growing calm” and “I got off the train”. The first of which reminds me of the feelings the springtime invokes in me, while the second I feel perfectly encapsulates my time spent here in the city. I love and see myself in both poems, I even highlighted a line that stuck out to me the most. I hope you enjoy the two as much as I do.
I seem to be growing calm ✶
I seem to be growing calm.
Perhaps I’m about to die.
There’s a new and gentle fatigue
Around all I wanted to want.
I’m surprised to find my soul
So resigned to feeling.
Suddenly I see a river
Shining in a grove.
And they are a real presence:
The river, light, and trees.
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I got off the train ✶
I got off the train
And said goodbye to the man I’d met.
We’d been together for eighteen hours
And had a pleasant conversation,
Fellowship in the journey,
And I was sorry to get off, sorry to leave
This chance friend whose name I never learned.
I felt my eyes water with tears…
Every farewell is a death.
Yes, every farewell is a death.
In the train that we call life
We are all chance events in one another’s lives,
And we all feel sorry when it’s time to get off.
All that is human moves me, because I’m a man.
All that is human moves me, not because I have an affinity
With human ideas or human doctrines
But because of my infinite fellowship with humanity itself.
The maid who hated to go,
Crying with nostalgia
For the house where she’d been mistreated…
All of this, inside my heart, is death and the world’s sadness.
All of this lives, because it dies, inside my heart.
And my heart is a little larger than the entire universe.
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Elena Ferrante
I read my very first Elena Ferrante novel, ‘The Days of Abandonment’, during the summer of 2023, and I do remember thoroughly enjoying the novel so I am entirely unsure as to why it took me this long to pick up another one of her works but wow, am I thankful that I finally did.
‘The Lying Life of Adults’ is Ferrantes most recently published novels, this novel explores the coming of age of our main character, Giovanna. Growing up in the large city of Naples, Giovanna has to reckon with the many changes that come with girlhood. The meeting of an estranged aunt, a divorce between her parents, the evergrowing distance between her and her childhood friends… This story immediately draws you in with the opening line, “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly”.
I adore the way Ferrante somehow encapsulated the raw emotions that come with being a teenage girl, the loneliness and constant self evaluation. Although I am far past that stage of life, this book felt like a small nod of acknowledgment towards my younger self and all of her strong feelings, it felt like I was being reassured that “yes, that was an intense feeling to have wasn’t it?” and “yes, that really did feel like it would hurt forever, didn’t it?”
If this novel sounds like something you would enjoy reading, I have left the books official synopsis down below along with a few of my favorite quotes pulled from the book. I also discovered that the book has been adapted into a Netflix series, one of which I plan on watching within these next few weeks. Show review to come!
 ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ ✣ Elena Ferrante | In this powerful new novel by Elena Ferrante, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of carnality and passion, where her guide is the unforgettable Aunt Vittoria. Here is another gripping, highly addictive, Neopolitan story from “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times). |
If you, in all your life, don’t do this thing as I did it, with the passion I did it with, the love I did it with, and I don’t mean eleven times but at least once, it’s pointless to live.
We two are made like that, when we have good thoughts we’re pretty, but we turn ugly with mean ones, we have to get them out of our heads.
I hated the idea that there was a Father in Heaven and we children were below, in the mud, in the blood.
What sort of father was God, what sort of family that of his creatures: it frightened and at the same time infuriated me. I hated that Father who had created such frail beings, continuously exposed to suffering, so easily perishing. I hated the fact that he was watching how we puppets dealt with hunger, thirst, illness, terror, cruelty, pride, even the good sentiments that, always at risk of bad faith, concealed betrayal.
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Be Pasta ⊹ Brooklyn, NY
My all time favorite Italian restaurant here in the city is, and will forever remain to be, Terre Pasta & Natural Wine. I have spent many summer nights laughing and dining with those closest to me at this very restaurant. Much to my surprise, at the beginning of spring, the owners of Terre opened a second establishment, Be Pasta! If you ever find yourself in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, NY, with a craving for high quality Italian food, stopping by either one of these two restaurants is an absolute must. The two restaurants not only give off the most inviting atmosphere, both feature harmoniously charming decor, but the owners are such kind and passionate people who continuously make an effort to connect with their clientele and so clearly put their love for Italy into every single dish they present.
 Be Pasta ⊹ Ground floor dining area |  ‘Salvore capra e cavoli’ ⊹ A dish of brussel sprouts carpaccio, anchovies Canale di Sicilia, capers & steamed Fregola pasta |
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If you have any poetry, book, restaurant or any other recommendations you would like to share with me, I’d love to hear from you over in the comment section down below!
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Before I Say Goodbye…
I would like to leave you with a very small sneak peek at what’s to come. I am currently working on a very exciting little project, my very first thigh garter! It will be an adornment much like Maddalena and Constanze except this piece will be for the thigh rather than the ankle. Below is a small peek at the two focal charms I have chosen to feature in this new thigh adornment. I cannot wait to finalize and share this new piece with you guys but this is all for tonight.
I hope you had a relaxing weekend and are now refreshed and ready to take on the week ahead but remember, before you fall asleep tonight, do take a moment to look up at the night sky and drink in the view of the full “pink” moon. xx
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Until the next full moon, - LDS ♱ |  |
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