Feb 8, 2021 | Bits and Pieces, Boutique Jewelry, Designing Eye, Gemstones, Jewelry Stylist
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...
Nov 10, 2020 | Boutique 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 – are they just a North Carolina...
Jun 11, 2020 | Boutique Jewelry, Designing Eye, Progressive Pairs
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 – talisman that lend support to fly, look beautiful,...
May 8, 2020 | Boutique Jewelry, Designing Eye
Studying geology, I scrambled all over rocks learning their secrets, trying to make sense of their place in Earth’s history. My jewelry creations start with the gem and how best to enshrine it. I call my new design series “Gia”, alluding to...
May 7, 2020 | Boutique Jewelry, Designing Eye
Meet “Phoenix,” the third of my three new collections launching in November. With the Phoenix designs, I have layered pieces of extraordinary gems and minerals, then surrounded them with a gem-studded crown. Set in 18 karat white gold, layered slices...
Oct 8, 2010 | Boutique Jewelry, My Life in Jewels
I was twenty-six and guiding a group of geology professors through the Himalaya Tourmaline Mine where I was doing my undergrad thesis. One of the professors was Dr. Brian Mason, a geochemist who authored the mineralogy text most universities were using, including...
