Bienvenido. Tashi Delek. Swaagatam. Welcome to the Global Gypsy Experience where the world provides the muse for a unique, globally-inspired jewelry collection and published travel tales.
Artist and Writer Suzan Crane is a
modern-day nomad - a Global Gypsy, if you will.
In 2003, Suzan gave up her home and most of her possessions to travel the world. Something she has not stopped doing. Throughout her journeys she collects stones, silver, feathers, and other natural materials to fashion exclusive eco-friendly art-wear creations, Suzan's Global Gypsy Collection exists as an homage to the bounties of the earth.
Each one-of-a-kind piece in this handcrafted collection is inspired by her spiritual, physical, and emotional journey to the far corners of the earth, culminating in a line that is deeply personal and aesthetically distinctive.
As a freelance journalist, her storied expedition - from music industry public relations executive to backpacking vagabond - has been documented in many international print and online publications, including KLM Airline's Holland Herald, ELLEgirl, Ms., Female, Untamed Travel, The Palm Beach Post, Jordan/UAE leisure magazine VIVA, and eons.com.
Description: Earthy and elegant, these elliptical-shaped agate drop earrings are, like all my wares, one-of-a-kind. As nature is wont to do, there exists slight variations in the stones, which enhances the unaltered beauty of the agate. Sterling silver earring wires, as aways.
Price: $55.00 + S&H
Item#: E001
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Suzan Crane gets drenched with local colour during the festival of Holi in a sacred town where the Beatles once stayed. (Originally published in Untamed Travel, June 2006)
It’s 6am and silver mist veils the village. The holy Ganges River flows serenely below our feet, the suspension bridge swaying slightly under the weight of our packs, while monkeys hang from the rafters. It is still and silent. Soon the chiming of bells and the chanting of devotees will float through the small town of Rishikesh in Uttaranchal. Ancient temples, well-used yoga halls and modern guesthouses melt into the landscape of one of India’s great pilgrimage centres. By 8am, sadhus, sanyasins, spiritual seekers and plain old tourists amble leisurely alongside the sandy banks of the mythic river where schools of huge fish are fed offerings of puffed rice.
Shops and restaurants open for business and begging babas encamped at the foot of the Laxman Jhula Bridge intone “Hari Aum” with open palms inviting “donations” of baksheesh. Bearded Western men and women wearing kutas or salwaar kameez scurry to yoga and meditation classes. Hawkers in the entrance square to the bridge sell peacock feather fans, maps, cheap cameras. When the sun begins to thaw the early morning chill, tourists and Indians alike take a dip in the sacred water. At sunset, pujas will be performed on the ghats of Ram Jhula and a further calm will descend upon an already tranquil village.
It’s a typical day in Rishikesh…
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