I was a child in northern Minnesota the first time I saw the Northern Lights.
I thought they were fairies dancing in the sky.
I'm not entirely sure I was wrong.
That memory, that first gasp of wonder looking up at a sky on fire with color  lives in this pendant. Every time I look at it, I am four years old again, standing in the cold dark, watching something I had no words for yet.
This one-of-a-kind pendant is made using plique-à-jour — one of the most extraordinary and demanding techniques in the history of jewelry making. In plique-à-jour, enamel is suspended within fine metal frameworks with no backing behind it, so that light passes through the color the way it passes through a stained glass window. The result is not a pendant that reflects light. It is a pendant that holds light — that glows from within, that changes as you move through the world, that catches a ray of sun and throws it back in a dozen directions at once.
The colors move across this pendant the way the aurora moves across a winter sky — greens bleeding into blues, blues deepening into purples, purples catching fire into reds and oranges and golds. No two moments of light are the same. No two viewings of this pendant are the same.
It measures approximately 1½" in diameter — a full, generous circle of captured sky — and comes on a sterling silver adjustable chain that can be worn anywhere up to 24", so you can layer it, lift it, or let it rest exactly where it belongs.
There are people who will look at this pendant and see beautiful enamel work.
And there are people who will look at it and see the fairies.
You already know which one you are.