These 4 metals are my raw materials! (along with my gemstones of course). When I first began my jewelry designing journey, I worked exclusively with Copper and sterling silver. We were trained on copper since it's value was much less than silver, yet it reacts very similar to silver when heated or textured. I fused silver to copper as an experiment and fell in love with the … [Read more...]
Pendants Anyone?
Lately I spend my time creating new Pendants. Endless design ideas are floating around in my head. I adore bringing them all into reality. Keep in mind that each pendant is handmade and ONE OF A KIND. While there are a few designs that I keep in the line and create in multiples, they each are still individually hand wrought. each one has it's own unique marks that make it … [Read more...]
Featured Artist; ME
I have the honor of being chosen as one of the top 40 artists to watch this year. ArtsyShark selected my designs. How exciting is this?? The feature on their site is available here. Please comment there. I appreciate it. Here's a preview of the story. I love designing with gemstones and metals. Early in my training I worked in copper. Even though this was supposed to be a … [Read more...]
Passionate about Purple
This vibrant color makes us feel luxurious and rich! Purple combines the energy of red and the calmness of blue. It is furthermore associated with spirituality and the higher self. Purple’s elite status stems from the rarity and cost of the dye originally used to produce it. Historically purple is considered the color of royalty. Purple was expensive and as a result only the … [Read more...]
Love Purple? You Might be Royalty!
Purple is well known as the color of royalty. Want to know why? In ancient times the only way to replicate purple dye was by harvesting thousands and thousands of murex sea snails . As you can imagine this was not an easy task. It was time consuming and expensive. Only the very rich royalty could afford it. Since purple was relegated to royalty it was only fitting that deep … [Read more...]
