Gorgeous Stones, How is such beauty possible?

New work in the Etsy Shop today.

I'm continuously amazed and fascinated by the variety and natural beauty of stones 

that we dig up from our great Earth.

My love of organic beauty has carried me forward into my artist muse of choice, 

metalwork that incorporates treasures from the deep.

Enjoy a few pieces of new work, 

as I try to emulate the radiance of the stones in sterling silver.

Thanks for stopping by ;o)

All work can be found in the Etsy Shop

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Hammerhead baby

Recent custom work

I love making my hammerheads!

A remarkable specimen of Laguna Agate

And an impossibly breathtaking Botswana Agate



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a few new old ones...

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Rainforest Jasper with a sweet clear druzy pocket!

Size 8 ;o)

Hammered and Oxidized Arrowhead dangles...swinging for some fun flirty action!

And some tiny copper triangles...perfect for everyday wear.

All posted in The Etsy Shop right now ;o)

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new beauty...

Custom piece for a lovely lady from Finland using her incredible Ocean Jasper cab ;o)

leopard of panar - brass cuff...

A glamorously large hand pierced and formed brass cuff, with hand etched leopard print on the exterior, and the interior that bears my makers mark E², is hammered smooth for a comfortable feel against your skin. The gorgeous leopard pattern was the result of a piece of lace that I transferred the design onto the brass, and chemically etched around the design it left. Oxidized for color and effect, sanded and polished to achieve a high shine, and lastly, hand buffed with a protective wax finish to protect the oxidization of the piece for years to come.

The Leopard of Panar...gorgeously ferocious in it's day, thought to have killed over 400 people in Northern India until he himself, was hunted down by a conservationalist and naturalist in 1910, to save the lives of those remaining in the nearby tribes.

 

in The Shop now 'p)

 

 

 

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if i had a chance love...

daily muse. 

working on a brass leopard print etched fat brass cuff.

it's totally BA.

thats short for Bad-Ass, if you didn't know already. (dane cook)

and the landslide brought me down...

What began as a horrible disaster, has become one of my favorite new pieces!

This piece began with my intentions of soldering a little pyramid of the tiny silver balls, but turned into a horrible mess when my hand shook, and my soldering pick swept the whole pile over right when they were at the perfect temperature to connect properly. It was actually quite beautiful in a way, this little mini landslide of molten red-hot silver balls, cascading off of the perfect pyramid I had painsakingly stacked. After quenching my mess, and taking a second look, it really began to look planned this way, sort of a controlled chaos...so I went with it, and now I plan on trying to repeat it again!

"I took my love and I took it down

I climbed a mountain and I turned around

And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills

Well, the landslide brought me down."

available in The Shop now ;o)

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its hammer time baby!

just kidding, sort of. gorgeous morrisonite jasper in sterling... totally reminds me of a hammerhead shark! in the etsy shop right now!

ailette - 008

beautimus Rainforest Jasper...in the Etsy Shop/ tonight!

this one is hard to part with, i'm absolutely in love with it!

berry crunch

Gorgeous Ocean Jasper from Madagascar, truely incredible, never seen anything like it!

Reminiscent of berry crunch cereal in the mornings...colorful splotches of muted marshmallow color, swimming around in my leftover milk.

In the Etsy Shop tonight!

soft and peaceful...

posted to the shop today ;o0

soft waves of lilac ocean, set in sterling silver and surrounded by a little solar system of it's own.

soft pink desert rose, with windows to its soul cut-out on the underside.

enjoy your lazy sunday, i know that i am, although it's far from lazy ;o)

on the way-side

i've been so busy lately, working on several custom orders (thank you dearly Erin of HauteHardware and Mary and Lina ;o) )...but i had to pause a glorious moment to catch my breath (while varnish dries, and shiny silver tumbles in the tumbler) to post some of my work that has been on the way-side lately.

samples of my self-teachings of electroforming...getting better slowly, but sure enough ;o)

just a couple fun rings, will be added to my etsy shop soon

gorgeous turquoise


scrumptious fossil coral....fun little blossoms for your finger ;o)


until soon, i bid you adieu

custom-o-rama

lately i have been inundated with custom orders...it's truely been a blessing. a WHOOPING thank you and HUG for all those that have partaken in the goods ;o)

now, throughly immersed in the site updating, shop updating, new photo design, new technique trial-n-errors in the studio, show planning and partaking....i'm IN THE MODE, as they say.

for now, bewilder yourself with a few photos of my custom pieces, most flew out the door before i had a chance to whip out my camera!

turquoise plaything...

my latest from this weekend...now in my etsy shop ;o)

newest addition

i decided to name this series Ailette.

this series began as a dream (as described in the previous post), and as these rings took shape beneath my fingers, they reminded me of some sort of battered and beaten, yet still beautiful medieval armour.

some google research later...the word ailette reached out to me and stuck. an ailette, is a typically flat portion of armour, used to protect the shoulder region...although there is some argument as to whether they actually enhanced protection to the neck, or were purely used for decoration purposes.

they are now posted in my etsy shop!