One of the trends for silver jewelry I've noticed over the last year or two is silver that's not silver: the rise of deliberate blac...

Today I have three new variations on an earring theme. I've had a bad cold, so the most work in the studio that I could muster was fusi...

This morning I finished the Periodot Leaf Bud earrings that have been sitting on my bench for literally months. Peridot Leaf Bud earrings...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my design process for a custom ring. That post detailed how I start with an idea, develop the drawings, and ...

I'm known for my bird themed jewelry, where each bird is hand-formed individually just as nature would do it. Unfortunately, there's...

My first jewelry love is earrings. When I was sixteen I finally persuaded my mother to allow me to pierce my ears. Her own experience involv...

One of the best things about working in a series is that I don't have to totally recreate a project. Say I need a new brooch, in the sty...

Over the last weeks I've made multiple earrings that each used the leaf-on-leaf cast components. Each pair is totally different than the...

Working more regularly at the bench produces momentum. New ideas pop up, but old projects resurface as well. Suddenly the issue that stymied...

One of the reasons for making components in various sizes is the range of options that gives for composition. This sketch utilizes le...

To show the range of the idea of components, I whipped up three pairs of earrings one day. A simple variation involved a pair of small l...

Piles of cast components are rather exciting in and of themselves. cast leaf components, 3 sizes Suddenly the entire idea of breaking...

Once the sketches started mounting up, it became clear that the recurrent leaf-on-leaf could be a component. Casting as a way to make multip...