Reviving the old sailor's art of scrimshaw, Nantucket's Jessica Cushman creates engraved ivory bangles with cute but tough phrases in fat type, like Whatever Whatever and All this and brains too.

Thankfully for elephants, she uses the fossilised bones of long-dead woolly mammoths for her carved bangles, in addition to a more affordable cast resin line.

Cushman says that surprisingly, there is a lot of this ivory around. "Mammoths roamed the earth for about 25,000 years and when they died they froze, since they lived in the Arctic regions. So there’s 25,000 years worth of mammoth ivory frozen in the permafrost. During the spring thaw the frozen bits of mammoth tusk get pushed to the surface. More and more of it is appearing now – it’s one of the only upsides to global warming!"

Cushman learned how to do scrimshaw as a kid. Strange hobby. Now a proper grown-up, she started making the bracelets in response to all the "faffie" word jewellery out there.  "Stuff with words like 'breathe' and 'faith' and 'dream'. Not that I’m against breathing or dreaming, but I think the sassier women of the world are under-served and need jewelry that expresses more lively sentiments!" Sentiments like Out of my mind; back in five minutes.

Husk stock a selection of Cushman's bangles, and her online store stocks a massive range including a coloured and clear resin selection. The ivory Luck is believing you're lucky that's all is a pricey US $1770.00, while the resin bangles are more affordable at US$130.00.