Hand carved and cast, solid, sterling silver sweet skull with engraved mouth.Facial features oxidized; bright polished with handmade sterling earwires. These skulls can be made with gemstone eyes of all kinds, from aquamarine to diamond to watermelon tourmaline; please convo me for more information. The size of the skull is about the same size of the President's head on the US Dime.

All jewelry arrives shipped in a signature, stamped black box made from 100% recycled materials.

These little, sweet skulls are a tribute to memento mori jewelry. "Memento mori" is a Latin phrase meaning "Remember you shall die". Memento mori is a genre of artistic creations varying widely from one another, but all share the same purpose, to remind people of their own mortality. The spirit of the idea is better found in the phrase "carpe diem" or "seize the day". Sometimes momento mori jewelry is worn for mourning the loss of a loved one, but, most often it serves as a reminder to treasure each day of your life and to live each day to the fullest.

Lethe was a mythological river nymph and her river ran from the earth into the Underworld. The Lethe was the river of Oblivion, and, all souls of the departed had to drink the water from the river to forget earth, and the pleasures of the mortality in order to transcend to the spirit realm.