Apr 16, 2019 | Designing Eye, Once Upon A Jewel
For this extraordinary project, we knew that the main ingredient was extra special so we made our own recipe for creating a jewel starting with finding an elusive amethyst crystal from a fabled locality, faceting the gem, creating a design, and “painting with gems” to...
Feb 7, 2019 | Designing Eye
Going from a good design to a great one isn’t a matter of luck. I met with a customer, Frances, who had two pairs of gorgeous, rare and vivid gems – yellow danburite and teal “cuprian” tourmaline. These are rare gems and great examples of their type. Both pairs...
Mar 13, 2018 | Gemstones, Legacy Jewels, Once Upon A Jewel
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 work involving an extensive global gem search, meticulous examination of...
