Bracelet in Sterling Silver and Landers Turquoise

April 24, 2009

Friend, patron and mentor  commissioned a bracelet using a huge piece of Landers turquoise in a style made popular by my grandfather. She wanted the bracelet to be my own and not a copy of my grandfather’s work.  I loved that challenge. I feel that I was able to keep in the parameters she asked for [...]

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Silver bracelets

April 20, 2009

I have been making pieces that are all metal, no stones, and depend on design alone to make them interesting to me. I have many influences which I have already written about for this type of work and I just received two books from Marbeth Schon, “Form and Function, American Modernist Jewelry 1940-1970″ and “Modernist Jewelry, [...]

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Bracelet in Sterling and 18K Gold

March 20, 2009

Very few times in my life have I been this satisfied with anything I have made. This bracelet was inspired by a spoon handle I saw in a book about Navajo spoons that Dick Barber brought in last week. He was inspired to make spoons and this zigzag handle caught my eye and I told [...]

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Box with Flower

January 26, 2009

When I make floral elements for necklaces I don’t really plan it out and end up with some that are the wrong shape or two big or too small. I work this way in silver but for cost considerations I can’t do that in gold. I had made this large flower several weeks ago and [...]

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Two Coral Bracelets

January 20, 2009

This beautiful coral was purchased from a friend Steve Booth, boothballoon@earthlink.net,  a couple weeks ago. I bought enough to make two bracelets, one went to Mark Bahti right away, the other I still have in the studio. These bracelets are very complicated and exhausting to make. They have many layers and elements as well as [...]

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Coral in 18K Gold

January 14, 2009

I was contacted by a group called Too Precious To Wear who is trying to raise consciousness in the jewelry industry about saving coral. I have been watching the laws changing about the use of coral for some time. I found inconsistent information is all over the place. One set of information says that if I [...]

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Necklace in Sterling and Tyrone Turquoise

January 13, 2009

I started this necklace when I made it’s sister necklace in azurite/malachite as a commission for Christmas. I like to make more than one piece at a time. I bought this Tyrone turquoise from my friend Bruce Mead a couple of months ago. Tyrone is not very common, it is from a copper producing area [...]

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Silver Buckle with Initials

January 9, 2009

I was fortunate to be born into a family which makes jewelry and to have fallen in love with the work. There are many ways to learn the craft of jewelry, I was apprenticed to my father as he was to his father. All three generations have made many pieces which were not considered art [...]

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Sterling Bracelets

January 8, 2009

The Patania Collection are pieces I make which are classic best sellers. I have the Collection available for retail and wholesale. I have drawn on over 80 years of my family’s designs to make the Collection and adapted the designs to keep the pricing affordable. The Maria bracelet is a design I made myself a couple of [...]

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Christmas Pendant in Sterling and Many Stones

January 7, 2009

This pendant was made for the same client that I wrote about yesterday. I made it last year, 2007, when her husband came in to commission a piece for her Christmas present. She has received my work as her Christmas gift for many years. She knows my work is coming but she never knows what, exactly. The [...]

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