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...
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...
Dec 18, 2018 | Cynthia's Reflections
That phrase is a running joke in our family, at least when my parents were alive. Dad married an Indiana farm girl; her maiden name Baker hinting of the future scores of pie crusts rolled out on the kitchen table over the five decades they were married. Dad loved pie....
Sep 28, 2018 | Cynthia's Reflections
Well, that summer flew past. Hurricane Florence did her best to blow away summer’s last beams, leaving us welcoming Fall. But, we’ll always have Nevada. A few months ago, I put my QVC sales training to the test selling my two teen daughters on the idea of a summer...
Sep 3, 2017 | Cynthia's Reflections, News & Press
I’m happy to receive another win in a national competition: First Place for Custom Design Distinction in the MJSA Vision Awards. This winning jewel was a full custom jewelry piece featuring colored gemstones for a client who lives 3,000 miles from me. We did visit in...
Aug 13, 2016 | Cynthia's Reflections, News & Press
Cynthia Renée received the Custom Design Distinction category of the 2016 MJSA Vision...
