Recycle Your Old Jewelry

Posted on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | No Comments

Do you have a jewelry box full of old jewelry you no longer wear? Well it’s time to go through it. Who knows, you may find a hidden treasure you’ve long forgotten. When you find rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, or whatever that you will no longer wear put them into a recycle [...]

New Etsy Store Coming

Posted on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments

I will be launching a new Etsy store on September 1st. A few of the items that will be available are silver rings with various gemstones, an onyx and carnelian cuff bracelet, and a tropical sunset pendant/pin.

Lessons in Etching

Posted on Monday, July 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments

In my last post I wrote about breaking out of a design funk for a pendant I needed to make. On Saturday I started working on that pendant. My first thoughts were to texture the metal being used for the pendant. The main stone is a pietersite (a dark stone with streaks [...]

Designer’s Brain Lock

Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Well tonight was supposed to be spent working in the shop designing and making gorgeous pieces of jewelry. It doesn’t always work out that way. I’ve found I just can’t sit down and put on paper all the ideas and designs I have floating around in my brain. Instead I spent too [...]

17 New Charoite Stones

Posted on Friday, April 11th, 2008 | No Comments

I’ve been extremely busy with coaching High School hockey and haven’t had a chance to make any pieces of jewelry. Between that and I work all I’ve wanted to do is rest. Needless to say I’ve been needing some inspiration. When I saw these charoite gemstones, it was just the inspiration I’ve needed. These gorgeous [...]