I’ve had an obsession with circles for the past six months or so. They pop up in almost all of my jewelry designs, and when I don’t have a new idea I sometimes make a bunch of fused circles just so I’ll have them on hand when inspiration strikes.
It was just a matter of time [...]

I’m really, really happy with how this new choker turned out. I’ve had the chunky carnelian and citrine beads in my stash for quite a while, and had strung the main part of the necklace several months ago but couldn’t decide how to finish it. Over the weekend, I came up with the idea for [...]

I am LOVING my latest design – so much that I think I’m keeping this prototype for myself!
It started out as a pendant, using one of my handmade argentium silver rings. I took a selection of pearls in a neutral fall palette of colors, and wired each one individually on handmade fine silver head pins [...]

I’m working on stocking my shop with birthstone jewelry – the birthstones for October are opal and tourmaline, and November’s are citrine and topaz. I don’t have any topaz or opal in my bead stash, but I do have some very cool rough citrines and freeform faceted tourmaline, so I made some more circle necklaces, [...]

I recently finished a custom order involving turquoise, which reminded me I had a strand of graduated turquoise teardrop beads in my stash. I found them, and they are GORGEOUS. Lots of color variation, from aqua blue to a limey green to yellow and brown tones, with black matrix in most of the beads. Each [...]