Island Glass Wings

Island Glass Wings Stained Glass Butterflies Jewelry http://www.etsy.com/shop/IslandGlassWings
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The butterflies used in this jewelry are farmed at ecologically friendly butterfly farms that help preserve the rainforest and help the local people. These butterfly farms help preserve the species, are sustainable and reduce the need for wild caught butterflies. Without people like you that will buy pinned butterflies, butterfly jewelry or butterfly art these farms would quickly go out of busines

s. When those local farmers run out of income from the butterflies they have to resort to other ways of making a living, in most cases this means clear cutting the rainforest for lumber. This destruction of the rainforest ruins the habitat for the butterflies and many other creatures and puts endangered butterflies at risk for extinction. A prime example of this is the worlds largest butterfly Ornithoptera alexandrae. Because it is protected and illegal to sell around the world, the people of Papua New Guinea can't raise it on farms. They resort to logging the small area that Ornithoptera alexandrae lives in and puts it even more at risk. If this butterfly was able to be sold around the world the local people would be able to set up butterfly farms and preserve the species as well as the rainforest.

Some custom earrings!
12/19/2016

Some custom earrings!

A fun set of jewelry I just finished, male and female Ornithoptera priamus, Birdwing Butterflies, one earring is male an...
12/15/2016

A fun set of jewelry I just finished, male and female Ornithoptera priamus, Birdwing Butterflies, one earring is male and the other is female. The pedant has a male wing on one side and a female wing on the other side.

No colour in tonight's orders but no less amazing, Abronia shed and Dragonfly wings.
12/12/2016

No colour in tonight's orders but no less amazing, Abronia shed and Dragonfly wings.

Butterfly order day!!!! 4 or 5 new species and restocked the rest of the popular species.
08/31/2016

Butterfly order day!!!! 4 or 5 new species and restocked the rest of the popular species.

Matching colours! It's always fun to make the same wings into different shapes.
03/22/2016

Matching colours! It's always fun to make the same wings into different shapes.

Some cool new stuff added to Etsy, Snake Skin Necklaces made from Snake Sheds! Started to experiment with snake skins an...
02/21/2016

Some cool new stuff added to Etsy, Snake Skin Necklaces made from Snake Sheds! Started to experiment with snake skins and butterflies in the same pendant.

Restocked a bunch of sold out necklaces!
02/20/2016

Restocked a bunch of sold out necklaces!

This pendant is made using a real butterfly wing. Morpho cypris is my all time favourite Blue Morpho. It is impossible to take pictures of this

Just restocked most of the Blue Morpho species! Along with a couple swallowtails too!
02/09/2016

Just restocked most of the Blue Morpho species! Along with a couple swallowtails too!

This pendant is made using a real butterfly wing. This butterfly can only be appreciated in real life, the slightest angle change of the wing

Hope people like blue, just working on these now.
10/07/2015

Hope people like blue, just working on these now.

Keeping with tradition, its been a while! New Year, new shapes. 20 of these are going onto Etsy this week.
01/06/2015

Keeping with tradition, its been a while! New Year, new shapes. 20 of these are going onto Etsy this week.

Doing some new Blue Morpho Shapes today and tomorrow!
02/18/2014

Doing some new Blue Morpho Shapes today and tomorrow!

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