Designing is all about solving challenges. Sometimes a gem I am designing around is just a bit “too much.” But, there’s always a workaround – learn how we approached one challenge below.

Designing is all about solving challenges. Sometimes a gem I am designing around is just a bit “too much.” But, there’s always a workaround – learn how we approached one challenge below.
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.
Feelings can be so raw and hearts so tender that words are clumsily inadequate for expressing them. Our hearts break, simultaneously expanding, ushering us through a terra incognita…
You can buy a finished pie at the bakery, just buy a pie crust or make your own. Some even create their own recipes.
We made our own recipe creating a jewel starting with…
Colorful Expressions: Using colored gem jewelry as symbols of self and meaning. Initiation and growth are Spring’s hallmarks. It’s 37 degrees the day I’m writing…
Spring is in the air bringing with it our desire for something new……We can recreate starting with your own jewelry – you know… the jewelry that’s languishing in your drawer and seldom sees the beauty of spring. Sometimes, it’s just a few tweaks. Others, a complete redo. But, you bring the jewels.
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