“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
Sunshine Amulet.
Handmade with amber and recycled sterling silver.
Protective Amber
A Hand of Protection ring in amber, made for Chu-Fen.
Handmade with amber and recycled sterling silver.
Shop Update: Gemmy Rings (and Tariffs for the US)
The Gemmy Rings are now available in my online shop.
I can adjust any ring to fit size 6 to 11. Once I adjust it to fit your size, you will still be able to open it half a size.
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NEW TARIFFS for the US:
To my friends in the US: Each piece you purchase carries a $32 USD import tariff. UPS will send you an email with a link to pay it online before delivery ≈ I’d love to absorb these fees, but I’ve chosen instead to continue offering free express shipping.
Inclusion
“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful.
If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.”
Inclusion Ring.
Handmade with tourmaline quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Possibilities
Sometimes I think what I love most is solving puzzles: discovering how many variations are possible with limited resources. That’s why I work with so few materials and techniques when I create my pieces.
There are seasons when my mind clings to familiar ideas, unable to look beyond them. But when a new possibility appears, something I’ve never seen before, I feel that spark again.
It reminds me that no matter how long we’ve been here, or how narrow our focus has become, it only takes a small shift for life to open up and something new to unfold.
Possibilities Ring.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Constellation
As I gain perspective, life feels less like endless possibility and more like a constellation, drawn by the people and things around me.
I’m learning to look more closely, to cherish what has been here all along. Even an object, seen with care, awakens in my heart. And people too: I see how unique they are and think: wow, I get to be with them!
Constellation Ring.
Handmade with lapis lazuli and recycled sterling silver.
Substance
An old idea, with more weight.
Substance Ring.
Handmade with tourmaline quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Gemmy (for Jenny)
If my seven year old self designed a ring, this would be it: gemmy, underwatery, queeny, superpowery.
Gemmy Ring.
Handmade with fluorite and recycled sterling silver.
Life Cycles
“Life is about being and becoming.”
Life Cycles Ring.
Handmade with chalcedony and recycled sterling silver.
Cosmic Whisper
I’m mesmerized by Instagram accounts where people wade through rivers and streams, fishing out treasures from the past: old glass bottles, Roman coins, porcelain doll heads, Victorian brooches.
When we were little, my sister and I would spend hours in the black lava sand dunes outside our house, searching for pre-Columbian shards and figurines. Each discovery felt like a secret message: we were here, we loved, we cried, we lived.
To hold what someone once held is to hear their whisper across time: you are not the first, and you will not be the last.
Cosmic Whisper Ring.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Shop Update: Gospel Series
Gospel IV
“Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.”
Gospel of Silence Earrings IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Tomorrow at 1 pm in my online shop.
Gospel III
“Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
Gospel of Silence Earrings III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Gospel II
“Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.”
Gospel of Silence II Earrings.
Aretes Evangelio del Silencio II.
Gospel
“This silence, this moment, every moment, If it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need.”
Gospel of Silence Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Shop Update: Treasure Map Series
Treasure Map IV
Treasure Map Earrings IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Treasure Map III
Treasure Map Earrings III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Treasure Map II
Treasure Map earrings II.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Treasure Map
I’ve had so much fun making this new series. Instead of starting with a whole idea, I made small shapes in silver, knowing I’d figure out what to make with them later.
As a kid, I’d cut out images from National Geographic magazines and then glue them back together to tell my own story. The same playfulness guided me here. I knew I wanted long earrings with lots of texture, like topographic maps pointing towards a hidden treasure.
Treasure Map Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.