Light Beams from “The Morning After”
Today, the morning after, I walked to work letting my mind go roaming off leash. Fragile in some ways and durable in many others, that light reflects eternity…
Changing Styles with the Seasons
My friend & client Carolyn inspires me with her combinations of colored gem jewelry and clothing colors. We could all learn a thing or two from her. Below, she starts with two different bead necklaces…
The Bitch is Back
Do you like surprises or pranks? I sure do and think of them as an alternative “I Love You” to my dear ones. To surprise my oldest last Sunday evening as she arrived home after weeks away, I turned all the house lights off…
Pearl Games
A client came to me with a stash of pearls she just didn’t wear. We made her pearl stash wearable, restringing with a series of five clasps that can interconnect so the pearls can be worn in different lengths and combinations…
Bold Peachy Neutral Gem Jewelry
Summer is such a bounty of produce, I ritually mark it’s end by making a fresh tomato-basil sauce on angel hair pasta and am sure to get in one more grilling of peaches. I never heard of grilled peaches before I moved to North Carolina…
Look What She Can Do!
When Liana sent me photos of her wearing some of her new earring combinations, I gasped! With her red hair and skin of moonlight, she looked like the enchanted Forest Queen of my childhood fairy tales…
Do You Grill Your Peaches?
Summer is such a bounty of produce, I ritually mark it’s end by making a fresh tomato-basil sauce on angel hair pasta and am sure to get in one more grilling of peaches. I never heard of grilled peaches before I moved to North Carolina…
Power of Presence
Imbued with memories and emotions, jewelry is a marker of human experience.
“Ice, Ice, Baby”
Creating meaningful jewelry to commemorate important moments in life is important to me. I call them dream jewels and hope to pass them down for generations to come. Cherishing these treasures and keeping their stories alive is essential.
Long Distance Legacy
My friend Lisa was in from Amsterdam with bags of gems and jewels she had collected over years of travel. Lisa’s jewel stash was large and varied, the only common denominator amongst the pieces was her good eye and sense of the possible.
Joy
Joy: a feeling of great pleasure, delight. “I had to include parrots in my Reflections Collection,” says Cynthia Renée…
Sapphire Dreams
Looking for a story with a happy ending? Read on...Once upon a time, there was a bright and beautiful woman who became a wife and mother while...
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