Apple blossoms with rose quartz and peach moonstone. Bound for my shop shelves at the end of the month!
March 20, 2021 by
January 23, 2021 by
Bless this mess. She’s work in progress!
This week flew by and my studio work didn’t amount to much once I listed new jewelry pieces for sale in my shop and then tended to the subsequent label printing, packaging and shipping. I spent a day in the office trying to respond to all my emails, tending to invoicing for photography projects, and taking calls with my editor and a handful of other people for a handful of other projects. Then I felt so inspired about a few things I’m working on that I couldn’t fall asleep at night, a few nights in a row! Does that ever happen to you? I felt like someone was striking flint inside my mind and sparks for ideas for a writing project I am embarking on were catching flame in my imagination. I’m experiencing something so thrilling right now:
THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA, THE BREATH OF INSPIRATION FILLING MY SOUL
It’s an important time. I must pay attention.
This beautiful dendritic opal cuff was born on Thursday. I had a hankering to make a big, wide cuff with presence, texture and a kind of unwaveringness to the design…with a cleanly presented stone set boldly on the face. I selected this dendritic opal that I have had in my stone collection for the better part of 13 years! This is such a great feeling, visually striking bracelet. I’m looking forward to making a few more.
I hope you are all wonderful, healthy, finding joy every day.
December 1, 2020 by
Dear ones,
I am stocking my shop shelves tomorrow from 9-10AM (mountain time zone). I hope to see you there!
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November 19, 2020 by
These are big, beautiful, heavy, decadent builds! Everything about the current price of precious metals would have me NOT work this way but I do what I want and what I wanted to build this week is big, bold, everlasting ring forms. These rings are set with wonderful cuts of buttery yellow dendritic opal. This is one of my favorite stones to work with and it’s difficult to find in this hue. My pal in Boise cut these stones for me and I’m grateful to have his help when it comes to sourcing precious stones such as these. Dendritic opal reminds me of Indian summer here on the high desert when the weather is a perfect blend of cold wind and warm sun and everything turns to gold as far as the eye can see. These rings are all that, in a nutshell.
Random thinking aloud: I’ve been thinking, these past couple of weeks, about one thousand years from now when some human being discovers our farm tucked away in layers of strata and drift and makes it an archeological dig. We look at archeological sites now and we say, “Look! These people had a religion. They hunted. They grew their food. They had art and expressed themselves. They had music. They kept records.”
So, too, they’ll look at the dusty, fossilized remains of our farm and our life and they’ll say, “Look, they had hunting tools. They had farming implements. They had livestock. They had music. They had a God. They had art and craft — they worked with their hands.”
There is only time separating Robbie and
What do you think an archeological dig would look like in Seattle or Los Angeles or New York City 1000 years from now? What would an archeological dig look like at your house 1000 years from now?
Star Maker
November 14, 2020 by
Years ago, a friend of mine told me he would never go to a fortune teller, he didn’t care about his horoscope, because he didn’t want to know his future. He wanted to make his own stars. Those words of his really stuck with me and have become a secret oath of mine:
I WILL MAKE MY OWN STARS
One of our greatest, most important jobs as humans is to dream, to dream as big as we can, and then to work hard to make those dreams reality. To pave our own life path, brick by brick — to make our stars, to concoct our own constellations, to see our light pour out into the galaxy.
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The Star Maker Earrings are big old airy sterling hoops paired with gritty little stars and
