Feb 8, 2021 | Jewelry Styling
How do you feel about the color purple? It’s one of my favorites. Thrilling or perplexing, the color purple is capturing cultural attention. Since the purple clothing around inauguration looked really good in the media, it’s reasonable we’ll be seeing more...
Dec 8, 2020 | Jewelry Styling
The venue was a relaxed, Bohemian cafe, and I was so excited to meet my friend and client, Lisa, to deliver the custom design ring we created….outside with masks….. 🙂 Lisa lives in Brussels. Her finished ring lay patiently in my safe while Lisa waited for...
Dec 3, 2020 | Cynthia's Reflections
Today, the morning after, I walked to work letting my mind go roaming off leash. I decided to wear my “happy” red shoes as an antidote to abundant gray. Watching them pace the ground, I thought of our national feeling as that we’re not walking on...
Nov 23, 2020 | Jewelry Styling
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…one overtly pastel typically associated with...
Nov 23, 2020 | Cynthia's Reflections
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. The TV could be seen from the entry way, and...
Nov 23, 2020 | Jewelry Styling
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. We used two clasps in yellow gold,...
Nov 10, 2020 | Boutique Treasures, Jewelry Styling
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 – are they just a North Carolina...
Nov 3, 2020 | Jewelry Styling
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. Liana’s photos may help you get an idea of all our earrings...
Jul 27, 2020 | Cynthia's Reflections
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 – are they just a North Carolina...
Jul 7, 2020 | Cynthia's Reflections, News & Press
Read author Deborah Yonick’s article in Lapidary Journal (July/August 2020), about jewelry artists telling the human experience of COVID. “Gifted at telling compelling stories about the gems she works with and the jewelry she creates, custom jewelry artist...
