Dreaming in Color
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 finding an elusive...
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Colorful Expressions
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. Since the garden is mostly...
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B.Y.O.J. = Bring Your Own Jewels
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...
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Torii Necklace Masterpiece: A Tourmaline Labor of Love
In the Spring of 2010, I took on the challenge of immortalizing one man’s love and devotion to his wife for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The end result, after three long years of hard...
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Heirloom Custom Jewelry from Life’s Key Moments
Have you had those fleeting moments in life when you experienced an unusually profound insight, a feeling of connectedness or intimacy? It’s as if God pulls a curtain back, showing us the...
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Opps, we did it again! Three Pieces. One Award-winning Custom Jewelry Design
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...
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How to Create Your Story in Jewels
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...
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A Natural
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...
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Reflect
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,...
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Everyone’s a genius in hindsight.
Everyone’s a genius in hindsight. More valuable is foresight – the ability to predict and take action based on insight into a future chain of events. Guided by intuition, vision, and smarts, my...
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Stars aren’t always in the sky…
Stars are born, but not always in the heavens. For this project, we created what would be the star performer at my client’s anniversary soiree, a vivid Blue Tourmaline and colored gem mosaic ring...
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Torii Torii Tanzanite
What to Wear with Anything An episode of “What NOT To Wear” wasn’t on my television screen when designing this custom Torii pendant for my client. I created my own show called, “What To Wear With...
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