New Garlic Clove necklace!

Solid bronze garlic!

Click Here to see it on Etsy.

New! custom 18 karat pendant

Oooo, Friday the 13th!

AND my photo importing froze up at the 13th photo!...something haunting my computer perhaps?

A lovely customer wanted the "Helicopter Maple Seed Necklace" as a charm. No chain, just the maple seed. And she wanted it in 18 karat gold.

Great! Sounded like fun to make. And it was! 18 kt gold= luxury to work with!

Love letters to my new designs!

Ahhh, Sweet Basil! So green, so succulent... we will meet again next spring dear Basil!

But Sweet Basil, I have you now... everlasting in silver!

Raw Rose Quartz. I love your light pink hues. Iridescent layers. Soothing feel of your stone...

New stuff!

baby basil studs

rosemary hoops

and onyx

I'm so happy with how they turned out!

Patinas and Bezels...

Oregano and Cat's Eye, and Rosemary and Rhodochrosite.

The Cat's Eye is for me! I experimented more with patinas on this necklace and came up with fabulous results. I used the egg method. Natural, easily attainable, and beautiful. The praise couldn't be higher from me. I used JAX Blackener last time and it was gross. I am so over chemicals, using lovely natural eggs was a dream! And the colors that resulted are really great.

The Rhodochrosite necklace will be available on Etsy. This time I tweaked the rosemary leaves towards the stone a bit to give it a sexier feel. I am really happy wit this design. More to come...

Choker

Here's my New Necklace!

(front and back)

I'm going to exercise my artistic freedom and call it a choker at 14". I used two Basil leaves and a Opalescent Topaz. Umm Umm. Pretty! It turned out to be allot more girlie than I had envisioned. I used another bezel setting for the topaz! I'm starting to get the hang of it... this particular topaz had been set aside for a prong setting but I did not feel up to conquering that! I'll save it for another day.

And as always, the back is detailed too. One of my pet peeves I guess is when a piece of jewelry has great detail, then you turn it around and the detail turns to mush. Now, I know that most people wont even set eyes on the back of your jewelry, but for my own piece of mind. I like to know that my necklace that I am wearing is detailed all around. Like a real leaf. Or, like a real object. It makes it more real, gives it more weight.

Many more chokers to come...

Lots of new earrings...

I'm finally getting around to posting some earrings on Etsy-

Basil leaves with a Garnets on top...

Here on Etsy.

and single Oregano, Rosemary, and Ivy leaf posts!

Here on Etsy...

My new "Opal Oregano" ring.

Here is my new ring!!!

Thats a pretty white opal, my first bezel setting, and two oregano leaves on either side. This one is tiny- a size four for my pinkie finger. I love it!