heirloom spoon rings

January 27th, 2009

For Christmas I made mom, my aunt and myself spoon rings, made from my great-grandmother’s silverware that mom inherited when gramma passed away this summer. Its a lovely set of sterling silver Birks silverware, monogrammed with the initial of my gramma’s maiden name. However, sterling silver flatware is hardly practical these days, and none of [...]

I finished up some new items for my shop last night - two bamboo tile bracelets with vintage images. The first features a series of Japanese landscapes, which have a really beautiful colour palette. I think the colours would work well with nearly any outfit, though it’d be really striking with black. The second is [...]

skullie no1

January 18th, 2009

This is another custom order: the skull is hand cut and polished, and again finished using my new tumbler. I added a purple Swarovski crystal drop and some fine chain as an accent. Everything is sterling silver.

custom order complete!

January 16th, 2009

After posting the necklaces I made for my girlfriends on craftster, I was commissioned by a craftster user in San Diego to make three more. I finished the order early this morning, and I’m pretty proud. They took about an evening each - its a fairly labor intensive process, drawing them, drilling pilot holes, cutting [...]

in search of elusive supplies

January 14th, 2009

I’ve been waiting for something truly inspiring to write about for my first real post but I’m realizing this could take a while :) So instead, I shall talk about my new drill bits!
The first round of pendants I made over the holidays required a lot of drilling. No problem, I says. I have a [...]

Hello world!

January 11th, 2009

Greetings and welcome to my website :D It’s under construction at the moment, but keep checking back!