This pendant is handmade using painstaking wire-wrapping techniques. Permanently colored brown wire frames and encircles the pendant, and then non-tarnish copper wire is used as the roots, trunk and branches of the tree. Genuine round nuggets of garnet gemstone are used as the “leaves” of the piece. It is a very three-dimensional piece that rises…
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Antique Gold Bird Nest and Swallow Charm Necklace
A bird’s nest has a lot of symbolic meaning including protection of the young and nurturing new generation and life. A nest is a home and a shelter and a Mother bird dedicates herself to the protection of her precious eggs. This process is celebrated in this piece. A unique, antique gold wire is woven…
Midnight Skies – Blue Goldstone Tree of Life Pendant
Goldstone is a man made gemstone that has been around since the European Rennaissance. Originally created in Venice, Italy by monks studying alchemy, goldstone is created by adding molten copper into glass. This crystallized into thousands of tiny crystals and formed a melt with golden light sparkles. This is how the first goldstone came about….
Charm Bracelets
I’ve made a few loaded charm bracelets as custom pieces lately. They’re a lot of fun to make because I can sit on the couch, watch TV and make the dangles. Each bracelet usually takes a couple hours and it can be repetitive, but it’s also a little comforting at the same time. After I…
Four Strand Spinel Bracelet
I made this lovely spinel gemstone bracelet as a birthday present to my mom. This was my first time working with spinel. In fact, I’d never heard of it before making this piece, but I loved the amazing variety of colors in the stone. Spinel is the great impostor of gemstone history: many famous rubies…
Agate Slice – Tree of Life Pendant #2
Following up on my first agate slice experiment, I’ve made another one. This slice of agate is the most amazing blue with blue and green rings like that of a tree trunk. I’ve used blue topaz and amethyst gemstone chips on this one and made a more full Tree with more branches made from sterling…
Agate Slice – Tree of Life Pendant #1
Of course you guys all know me and my crazy obsession love of making Tree of Life pendants. I just enjoy making them so much and I keep looking for new ideas and new ways of making them. Well, I was at the Flea Market last weekend and I found some awesome flat slices of…
Custom Order – Bubble Tree in Sage Green and Pearl
I received an email a few weeks back asking if I could make a custom version of my Bubble Tree #2 for a wedding. The bride had selected a sage green and chocolate brown as the wedding colors and the bridesmaids would be wearing dresses in that color. She wanted two custom pendants done in…