A Harmony Ball Necklace is also called a Bola Necklace or a Mexican Bola Necklace
Friday, April 29, 2016
Unique Artisan Design Harmony Ball Necklaces - Pink Collection
Some of the new Unique Artisan Designed and Crafted Harmony Ball Necklaces featuring the Pink Collection - simply stunning Harmony Ball Necklace designs featuring Rose Quartz, and Pink Moonstone in 925 Sterling Silver Pendants with Genuine 925 Sterling Silver Harmony Balls below.
You can find these and more at www.DazzlersHarmonyNecklace.com and www.HarmonyBall.net.au and https://www.etsy.com/shop/HarmonyBalls
A Harmony Ball Necklace is also called a Bola Necklace or a Mexican Bola Necklace
A Harmony Ball Necklace is also called a Bola Necklace or a Mexican Bola Necklace
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Artisan Designed and Crafted Harmony Ball Necklaces
Stunning Artisan Crafted Harmony Ball Necklaces
A UNIQUE range of Artisan designed and crafted Harmony Ball Necklaces have been released recently and are available at Harmony Balls shop on Etsy and also at www.HarmonyBall.net.au and www.DazzlersHarmonyNecklace.com
These UNIQUE Harmony Ball necklaces feature 925 Sterling Silver pendants set with genuine Gemstones and with a 925 Sterling Silver Harmony Ball included in the necklace. These unique items make wonderful jewellery pieces and could be a wonderful Mothers Day Gift idea.
A Harmony Ball is also called a Bola Necklace or Mexican Bola Necklace
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Stunning ANGEL WINGS
Stunning ANGEL WINGS on a wonderful 925 Sterling Silver Heart shape Harmony Ball
Stunning ANGEL WINGS on a wonderful 925 Sterling Silver Heart shape Harmony Ball
available at www.dazzlersharmonynecklace.com and www.harmonyball.net.au
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
A Harmony Ball is a Wonderful Christmas Gift
A Harmony Ball necklace makes a wonderful Christmas Gift - a Harmony Ball is a UNIQUE jewellery piece with Meaning.
Every Harmony Ball is HAND CRAFTED by Artisan Silversmiths on the island of Bali in Indonesia - crafted from Genuine 925 Sterling Silver and Genuine Gemstones (on many models).
Harmony Balls are treasured 'KEEPSAKE' jewellery items with special meaning.
Very Affordable with Dozens of designs UNDER $55.00 - here are some examples
available from
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| Traditional styles Balinese Harnony Ball |
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| Hinged cage style with Gemstone |
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| Hinged cage style with Pearl |
and some Unique Custom design examples;
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| Mother & Baby on 925 Heart shape Harmony Ball |
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| Large Citrine Gem above Filigree Harmony Ball |
Monday, November 9, 2015
New Shop Icon
Harmony Balls on Etsy has recently added a new icon to its shop.
The Harmony Ball used in this image displays the very best of the talents of the Balinese Artisan Silversmiths who make these wonderful jewelry items wholly by hand. There are a number of different Harmony Ball styles, the above being a hinged cage style, including the traditional Balinese Harmony Ball Necklace styles with intricate silverwork.
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| New Shop Icon at HarmonyBalls on Etsy |
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Article from People Magazine references this blog
http://www.people.com/article/paralyzed-bride-rachelle-friedman-chapman-necklace
See the Special Gift That Paralyzed Bride Rachelle Friedman Chapman Received from Her Surrogate
Rachelle Friedman Chapman, husband Chris and daughter Kaylee Rae
Rebecca Keller
When Laurel Humes was 20 weeks pregnant with paralyzed bride Rachelle Friedman Chapman and Chris Chapman's baby, she bought a very special necklace for the future mom.
The chime necklace, which is also known as a harmony ball, has been worn for centuries by pregnant women and is supposed to soothe the unborn baby.
"I got it when I was 20 weeks pregnant because that's when they say a baby can start to hear in utero," Humes, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, tells PEOPLE exclusively. The Chapmans and Humes welcomed baby Kaylee Rae two weeks ago.
The necklace makes a soft sound like a wind chime. Humes gave Rachelle the necklace at the hospital shortly after giving birth.
"I wanted her to have something sentimental that the baby heard when I had her and that she now can continue to hear," she says.
Rachelle says she was touched by the gift.
"It means a lot to have the necklace," Rachelle, 29, of Knightdale, North Carolina, says. "It's the most thoughtful gift, and I think it's cool it went from her and now I can wear it and one day I can give it to Kaylee."
Speaking of her 11-day-old baby girl, Rachelle admits she's secretly glad she had a daughter.
"I know I'm supposed to say that I would have been happy with either – and I would have been – but I love having Kaylee," she says. "Just having the connection. I really wanted a girl because I was a daddy's girl and I'm best friends with my mom."
Rachelle was paralyzed from the chest down after a May 2010 accident at her bachelorette party. Doctors told her that the medication she's on would make pregnancy dangerous.
College friend Humes carried Kaylee and continues to play an important role in her life, pumping breast milk and shipping it to the Chapmans, who live just outside of Raleigh, four hours away from her Asheville farm. The families plan to stay in touch throughout Kaylee's life.
"The pregnancy was exhausting, but it makes me feel really great to see the photos and how happy they are," Humes says.
And while she says it is complicated, it wasn't hard to give Kaylee to her parents.
"I don't think of it as giving her up," she says. "I think of it as giving her back. She was always theirs. She came to me as a five-day-old embryo."
The chime necklace, which is also known as a harmony ball, has been worn for centuries by pregnant women and is supposed to soothe the unborn baby.
"I got it when I was 20 weeks pregnant because that's when they say a baby can start to hear in utero," Humes, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, tells PEOPLE exclusively. The Chapmans and Humes welcomed baby Kaylee Rae two weeks ago.
The necklace makes a soft sound like a wind chime. Humes gave Rachelle the necklace at the hospital shortly after giving birth.
"I wanted her to have something sentimental that the baby heard when I had her and that she now can continue to hear," she says.
Rachelle says she was touched by the gift.
"It means a lot to have the necklace," Rachelle, 29, of Knightdale, North Carolina, says. "It's the most thoughtful gift, and I think it's cool it went from her and now I can wear it and one day I can give it to Kaylee."
The harmony ball pendant the surrogate gave Rachelle
Rebecca Keller
"I know I'm supposed to say that I would have been happy with either – and I would have been – but I love having Kaylee," she says. "Just having the connection. I really wanted a girl because I was a daddy's girl and I'm best friends with my mom."
Rachelle was paralyzed from the chest down after a May 2010 accident at her bachelorette party. Doctors told her that the medication she's on would make pregnancy dangerous.
College friend Humes carried Kaylee and continues to play an important role in her life, pumping breast milk and shipping it to the Chapmans, who live just outside of Raleigh, four hours away from her Asheville farm. The families plan to stay in touch throughout Kaylee's life.
"The pregnancy was exhausting, but it makes me feel really great to see the photos and how happy they are," Humes says.
And while she says it is complicated, it wasn't hard to give Kaylee to her parents.
"I don't think of it as giving her up," she says. "I think of it as giving her back. She was always theirs. She came to me as a five-day-old embryo."
Harmony Balls available at www.HarmonyBall.net.au
Monday, April 13, 2015
Harmony Ball Pendants and Local Traditions
Harmony Ball Pendant Design and Local Traditions. ©
It is known that a harmony ball pendant, also known by other names throughout the ages like druid balls, chime balls, bolas and others, were worn for more than just adornment. Harmony ball pendants were worn by different cultures in different regions for different reasons. Harmony ball pendants were also worn differently, sometimes as a necklace around the neck on a cord or a chain, sometimes attached to clothing again using a leather or twine cord or metal chain. Harmony balls were also made of different materials including metals and certain carved hardwoods and stone.
As much as harmony ball pendants varied greatly in design, shape, size and materials there was one commonality - these harmony ball pendants incorporated cultural and family traditions in their designs. The artisans of the time, local artisans from a village or community of villages or region will have used a particular design style pertaining to that region, something handed down from master artisan to apprentice through the generations. So a wearer of a harmony ball pendant could be recognized by others as being from a particular region or village by the design of the harmony ball.
In addition to the locality aspect of the harmony ball design the local artisan would also incorporate a family emblem component in the design for the wearer representing his or her clan. Often if the harmony ball was used by a warrior, as was the case with Celtic warriors in the wearing of the druid ball, a form of harmony ball. In this instance the artisan would incorporate a family or clan signature emblem into the intricate design of the harmony ball. The Celtic warriors wore the druid or harmony balls for their calming effect before a battle. In the aftermath of a bloody battle the survivors would collect the harmony (druid) ball pendants off the dead to take home to their families.
Silver, or a silver alloy similar to sterling silver was the choice of metal used by the artisans making harmony balls, in regions where the precious metal and metalsmithing skills were available. In other cases the artisan would use a local hardwood or soft stone to carve out the harmony ball shape and indeed the small bell. Much of the skill in making the harmony ball without the aid of todays technology was in making it hollow, making a small bell and inserting it inside the harmony ball without leaving an opening that would allow the small bell to fall out.
Pregnancy harmony ball pendants were worn by a number of cultures. It is said that the soft chiming sound of the harmony ball pendant would soothe and calm the unborn baby in the womb, and after birth it would soothe the newborn baby. Most women wore the harmony ball as a necklace on a long chain that would position the harmony ball over their abdomen, as close to the womb as possible. Some though wore the harmony ball on a shorter necklace, usually cord or chain, so that the pendant did not get in the way as they tended the crops or did their weaving.
Pregnancy harmony balls were often made by women elders who included the tradition of the womans family in their design, not unlike caretakers of the traditional values. Most women would hand down their harmony ball to their female child when she herself became pregnant although many times the harmony ball construction would render it very fragile and they would often break, keeping the local harmony ball maker very busy.
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