Closed Lines and Divergent Paths

October 10, 2011

I’m always open to making newer versions of some of my past work for patrons that missed an opportunity to have one of my one-of-a-kind pieces.   I tend to hit and run with ideas in my work.  I don’t dwell on a concept or a “look.”  So, my work is always in flux, with [...]

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Spectrolite and Dragons

October 4, 2011

Disclaimer:  Read only if you have a fairly flexible sense of humor. Yep, if you came to this post expecting to learn something, better your spiritual understandings, or just get an insight into the world of jewelry, I apologize.  I’m also sorry if you thought that maybe you’d find a universal truth.  But, all I’m [...]

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On the Razor’s Edge: is really a fleeting moment

June 23, 2011

People who are interested in making jewelry come into the shop and see me playing with fire, hammering, or using a jeweler’s saw.  Or else, they just don’t see me at the bench.  So, they get the idea that making jewelry is all playing with fire or cool tools.  But really, it takes a lot [...]

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Night Opals

June 1, 2011

In my garden, the moon is spider-webbed with cosmic rivers and tributaries, the wood glows with an incandescent shimmer, and the snake basks in its celestial glow.  That is, if you walk through the garden at night. In the moonlight, the plants seem to defy gravity by just hanging in space, reaching up.  The color [...]

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Kite in Brambles

May 9, 2011

Kite flying was always a sacrifice to the tree gods in my youth.  I would get the newspaper and a couple of strips of the lightest wood strips that I could find, fold, glue, and add string.  Then there’s the ever scientific method of figuring out how many bows to add to the tail, and [...]

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A Lucky 40th

May 5, 2011

This is a commissioned pendant made with sterling silver, a star ruby, and four faceted rubies tube-set along the bezel.  This gentleman wanted a four-leafed clover pendant to symbolize how lucky they are to have each other over this last 40 years.  The ruby is because it’s their ruby anniversary next week. The star ruby [...]

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Blue Cherry

April 7, 2011

Blue, blue, blue…  Blue skies, blue eyes crying in the rain, the blues, and blue river.  It gets into your blood.  Dusk, those few moments as the sun slips down over the tip of the Earth, and the blue shadows tints everything.  Blue berry stains.  Sky, water, it’s the color that gets slippery.  Above, below. [...]

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Earrings Springing Up from the Bench

April 6, 2011

Cute little ears to nibble on, ears that hear me when I have something very important to say, ears to ignore me when I don’t.  Ears, ears, ears… Earrings have always puzzled me.  Why the ear?  Don’t get me wrong.  I really have no opinion on nose rings, eyebrow rings, lip rings, etc.  Some sort [...]

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Project-Based and Technique-Based Classes

March 30, 2011

I had to struggle with this teaching thing early on as I began the studio.  If you’ll remember one of my first posts on here I was going to set it aside, but as James Bond would have said, never say never.  So, I took it all back to the drawing board and came up [...]

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Water Garden Pendant and Asheville, NC

March 22, 2011

I finished this pendant before heading out to vacation a bit in Asheville, North Carolina, for Spring Break.  The girls were out of school, and we had some family obligations in the city on the mountain.  Asheville is a huge artistic community.   You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an artist there, and it [...]

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