May 11, 2016 | Designing Eye, Legacy Jewels, My Life in Jewels, Once Upon A Jewel
My Mother Bathed in sun, my mother is deep in thought. I am there in her eyes imagining her future unfolding. Peggy Jo Donahue One of my greatest rewards is working with a client to distill their essence into a custom jewelry piece that tells a story for future...
Apr 30, 2016 | Designing Eye, Legacy Jewels, Once Upon A Jewel
During the Spring of 2014, I met a wonderful person with a natural gift for gem collecting. She purchased my Petite Owl Queen pendant/brooch and thereafter, we stayed in touch. It turns out that she is quite the colored gemstone aficionado. Several months passed...
Oct 29, 2015 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye
Illuminate: to brighten with light “Beauty and nature have always supported me, and I find myself turning again and again to the metaphors the natural world provides,” says Cynthia Renée. “I purchased the hand-carved moonstone mice and the cat’s-eye moonstone pairs...
Oct 22, 2015 | Designing Eye, Legacy Jewels, Once Upon A Jewel
Reflect: to contemplate, ponder Cynthia Renée, a trained geologist, gem hunter, and gifted jewelry artist, was inspired to create the Reflections Collection during a period of contemplation, discovery and rebirth in her own life. In the midst of this natural cycle,...
Sep 24, 2015 | Progressive Pairs
The Nuptials See Cynthia Renée's custom jewelry design portfolio here. Discover how your jewels can be a guide to personal transformation. GET...
Sep 17, 2015 | Jewelry Styling, Progressive Pairs
It all started with a Pearl Wardrobing with our Pearls. One Pair of Pearls… Many Possibilities. See Cynthia Renée's custom jewelry design portfolio here. Discover how your jewels can be a guide to personal transformation. GET...
Aug 27, 2015 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye, Jewelry Styling
The Chinese concept of yin and yang – how seemingly contrary forces are actually complementary – is often explained using metaphors from nature and life. The lightness of air, the solidity of earth; the brilliance of the sun, the dark shadows it frames;...
Aug 20, 2015 | Designing Eye, Legacy Jewels
Joy: a feeling of great pleasure, delight “I had to include parrots in my Reflections Collection,” says Cynthia Renée. “They are so full of life, love, and color. They will want to be worn close as a jewelry talisman – a talisman that lends support to fly, look...
Aug 6, 2015 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye
Origami, from ori meaning “folding”, and kami meaning “paper,” is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. Practitioners of the art can transform a flat sheet of paper into a piece of beautiful—if ephemeral—art, through folding and...
Jul 30, 2015 | Colored Gems, Designing Eye
Cynthia Renée’s poetic nature loves the fact that “orient” is the gem trade’s name for the iridescent play of colors that undulate across the surface of fine pearls. After all, cultured pearls were first grown in the Far East more than a century ago....
