🖤 THE NOSTALGIA

Faux Tarot Series | Card VI

Some memories are better in black and white. Others just live there.

Remember when your biggest problems were whether you could beat the next level of your favorite video game, what time your friends were coming over, or whether your mom was going to make you come inside before the streetlights came on?

Before bills. Before responsibilities. Before your knees started making noises every time you stood up.

You know, back when our biggest financial concern was whether we had enough quarters for the arcade.

Welcome to The Nostalgia. 🖤🩶🤍

Part of my original Faux Tarot series, this piece is a love letter to childhood, memories, and those little moments we didn't realize we'd spend the rest of our lives missing.

And here's the kicker: That's not a black-and-white filter.

Every single piece of glass in this panel is genuinely black, white, or some shade of gray.

Not one damn color.

For someone who usually treats color like a basic human necessity, creating an entirely monochromatic piece was a serious exercise in restraint.

I had to hunt down an absurd variety of black, white, and gray glass to create depth, contrast, and texture without relying on color to do the heavy lifting.

Sixteen shades of gray, to be exact.

Not quite fifty, but we're making stained glass here, not writing questionable erotica.

The result is a little snapshot of childhood, permanently preserved in glass.

Because sometimes the loudest thing you can say lives in black, white, and sixteen shades of gray.

✨ The Details

Artwork: The Nostalgia
Collection: Rainjarden Does Faux Tarot Series
Card Number: VI
Dimensions: Approximately 12" × 18"
Color Palette: Exclusively black, white, and shades of gray
Construction: Mixed glass techniques and traditional stained glass
Customization: Available with your choice of monogram and child silhouette
Availability: Made to order

🔍 Wait... ALL of That Is Glass?!

Yep. Every last ridiculous little detail.

This isn't stained glass with a bunch of painted-on embellishments. This piece incorporates multiple glassworking techniques to achieve the tiny details throughout the design.

Materials and techniques include:

• Traditional stained glass: Individually cut, ground, foiled, and soldered glass pieces.

• Glass dough: Used to create dimensional details, including the monogram and stars.

• Glass ribbons and stringers: Used for intricate decorative elements.

• Lampworked glass: Used to create details including the lollipop and lettering on the game.

• Glass frit: Crushed glass used to create additional textures and details.

• Glass screen printing: Even the lettering spelling out THE NOSTALGIA was created using glass frit and a screen-printing technique.

That's a whole lot of different ways to manipulate glass just to make one piece of artwork.

And I loved every unnecessarily complicated minute of it.

Well, most of them.

🖤 Make It YOUR Nostalgia

Because someone else's childhood memories are cute, but yours are better.

One of my favorite details in this piece is the framed monogram hanging on the little girl's bedroom wall.

And because nostalgia is deeply personal, you can customize this artwork to make it a little more YOURS.

✨ Personalization Options

1. Choose Your Monogram

The framed letter hanging on the bedroom wall can be customized with the initial of your choice.

Whether it's your own initial, your child's, or someone whose childhood you want to commemorate, I'll incorporate your chosen letter into the artwork.

2. Choose Your Character

The original design features a little girl, but The Nostalgia can also be created with a little boy.

Choose whichever version best represents the childhood memories you're celebrating.

Available options:

• Girl with custom monogram

• Boy with custom monogram

Please provide your preferred character and monogram letter when placing your order.

A Little Note About Customization

Customizing the monogram or character doesn't mean redesigning the entire panel. The overall composition, theme, dimensions, and monochromatic color palette will remain consistent with the original artwork.

Minor design adjustments may be necessary to accommodate your selections while maintaining the structural integrity of the stained glass.

🛠️ Made to Order: The Original Has Already Lived Its Childhood

PLEASE NOTE: THIS LISTING IS FOR A BRAND-NEW, MADE-TO-ORDER PIECE.

The artwork photographed is a previously completed piece from my original Faux Tarot series.

You're not purchasing that exact panel. You're commissioning a new version of an existing design that I've already created and successfully executed.

Because I've built this pattern before, I may make minor adjustments to improve construction, accommodate your customization choices, or account for current glass availability.

Any proposed changes that would materially affect the appearance of your artwork will be discussed and approved before your purchase is finalized.

Estimated production time: Approximately 4–6 weeks.

Each piece is individually handcrafted, so production times may vary depending on my current workload, material availability, and the complexity of your customization.

I'll communicate any significant changes or delays.

💰 Why Does This Piece Cost What It Does?

Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Or, more accurately, the tiny glass lollipop in the room.

The Nostalgia isn't simply a bunch of glass pieces cut into shapes and soldered together.

This artwork combines traditional stained glass construction with multiple specialized glassworking techniques, many of which require their own materials, equipment, preparation, and firing processes.

Every shade of glass had to be sourced specifically to achieve the monochromatic appearance.

Then there's the original pattern design, cutting, grinding, foiling, soldering, cleaning, and finishing.

Not to mention creating the dimensional details, lampworked elements, and screen-printed lettering.

You're paying for the glass, the specialized materials, the design work, the equipment, and the hours of skilled labor that go into bringing all those tiny details together.

And, naturally, the occasional existential crisis when a tiny piece of glass refuses to cooperate.

Handmade art isn't expensive because artists are trying to get rich.

It's expensive because making something this detailed takes a ridiculous amount of time, specialized materials, and skill.

🖤 The Fine Print (Because Adulthood Ruins Everything)

Handmade Means Handmade

Each panel is individually handcrafted. Minor variations in glass texture, tone, solder lines, and overall appearance are natural characteristics of handmade stained glass.

Because The Nostalgia uses a variety of specialty glass materials, your finished piece may contain subtle differences from the original photographed artwork.

Lighting Matters

Although this panel is entirely monochromatic, different lighting conditions can dramatically influence how its textures and tones appear.

Natural light, artificial light, background colors, and screen settings may affect the appearance of the artwork.

Glass Is Glass

Stained glass is fragile. Handle with care and display securely.

This is decorative artwork, not a toy, regardless of how many childhood memories it brings back.

All Sales Final & Shipping Damage

Because this artwork is made specifically for you, all sales are final for change-of-mind purchases, subject to applicable consumer protections.

Should your artwork arrive damaged, please contact Rainjarden Does as soon as possible, preferably within 24 hours of delivery, with photographs of the damaged artwork and its original packaging.

If a return is necessary, I'll provide a prepaid shipping label and repair shipping-related damage at no additional cost.

If the artwork cannot reasonably be repaired, an appropriate replacement or refund will be arranged.

For complete information, please review our All Sales Final & Dead on Arrival (DOA) Policy in the FAQ section.

💜 Art That Gives Back

Through the Rainjarden Does Charitable Initiative (RJDCI), 20% of our annual net profits are donated to five selected organizations doing meaningful work in their communities.

Every purchase helps support independent art while contributing to causes we believe in.

Learn more about the initiative and the organizations we support on our About Indigo page.