 Move Over Miro! A dynamite slice of translucent agate...with new, windblown growth and a secreted seed of things still to come--all in 14K GF. Large by some standards at 4" long, a friend bought this pendant to display as table-top art! --SOLD--  Firefly - Fused fine silver (.999), forged and wrapped with 14K GF. --SOLD--  Shhh! A "cleary" glass marble from my brother's collection when we were kids. Instead of backyard games, I turned this one into a tiny vase of sterling silver flowers--a pendant only 1-1/2" high! --SOLD--  Beautiful jasper adorned with 14K GF wirework "leaves" and a dangling berry of lampworked red-strike glass on 14K GF ring-and-bar chain. --SOLD--  Remember the Jetsons? Maybe this is their antennae...or perhaps just a family gem. A 2" round of dyed fossil stone precision-wired for style in 14K GF and suspended from 20" of ring-and-bar chain. --SOLD--  A translucent slice of agate, wave tipped with the natural crystals of drusy (for an up-close peek, see my website banner), framed with angles of 14K GF wire and ready for your favorite chain. --SOLD--  The earth moves in this polished round of red jasper suspended from fluid sterling silver on a hammered sterling neckwire. (3" pendant) --SOLD--  Three Dainties. From left to right, fused fine silver with kyanite, 14k GF twisted wire with glass, and more fused fine silver with snowflake obsidian.  Get out the crayons--it's play time! Dyed chalk turquoise, pressed into happy stripes, accented with 14K GF wire, swings from a tube rocker of the same gold and red- and green-dyed fossil stone beads. 18" overall with a 14K GF handmade left/right "S" clasp. $70  This polished nugget of malachite on twin 14K GF rockers and handmade chain netted 1st Prize in the Catonsvilles Arts Festival...and SOLD in one swell foop. Sad to see it go...glad to see it go to a good home!  It amuses me! 1-1/2" Stone "peapod"--plucked from a pile of other stones--drilled through, then riveted back and front with heavy fine silver (.999), hanging from a sterling silver riveted bale and 16" chain with a simple spring-ring clasp. --SOLD--  Party On! Artisan dichroic glass cabachon positively ablaze with 14k GF confetti squiggles, swirls and dangles, swinging from a 20" ring-and-bar chain. --SOLD--  Happiness on a Chain! Lampworked glass bead by Keith Parsley, a glass pear below, and both suspended from a sterling silver tube rocker, then more red and yellow beads before flying away in 18" of rounded sterling curb chain and a clasp that boasts a tiny dangle of the same beads. (Pendant is 2") NOT FOR SALE  Another pilfered treasure from my brother's marble collection...this time a modernistic bouquet in sterling silver. 1-1/2" high. --SOLD--  I love agates. This one--a translucent slab of honey color--is simply wrapped in 14K GF wire with a tumbled pebble of quartz for movement. 20" 14K GF curb chain with a handmade hook-and-eye clasp. $90  Coral rescued from the edge of the turguoise Carribbean on beautiful white sands of Acumel, Mexico, then studded with tiny winks of Swarovski and prong set in 14K GF before being suspended from a uniquely roped bezel--a gift from the sea. None other like it in the world--perfect for summer wear. $135  Splash! Pink agate dropped into sterling silver, dangling from a 20" handmade sterling silver chain. $190  Rules? Who needs rules??? A polygon of pure fun in this sterling silver wire pendant, a captured brushed disk of the same silver--light and airy--swaying from a 22" chain with a handmade left-right "S" clasp. $110  A bevy of bronze beauties! All made from bronze PMC--textured, carved, formed--to dangle delicately from 20"-24" silk cords. Pendants range from .5" to 1.25". $45 ea.  Nature is the original architect. Chevron-striped agate in a sterling silver wirework frame that traces the natural patterns and finishes in an Art Deco bail. --SOLD--  Modern Asian Flare! 14K GF wire "writes" up the face of this 1.5" domed circle of red howlite, and continues up over the gold neckwire to create the unusual bail and a surprising bit of jazz! --SOLD--  If jewelry had names, this one would be "Emily"--demure in her sterling silver and 14k gold-filled formal portrait frame...as dainty as a 30x40mm pink quartz cabachon can be. --SOLD--  9x7mm faceted amethyst nestled into textured ropes of silver PMC on 20" sterling chain. --SOLD--  Pam's Pendant - A slice of Brazilian agate framed with a mixed-metal combination of sterling silver and 14k GF square wire, forged into spade tips and swirled into a mass of curls at the unusual side juncture. Approx. 4" and shown off to perfection on an Omega chain. --SOLD--  Serenity in Symmetry. A smooth green lake of translucent aventurine framed identically, back and front, in sterling silver with 14k GF accents on ring-and-bar chain. --SOLD--  Unakite framed in rhythmic wings of 14K GF. This pendant is 3" long. --SOLD--  The haunting image of trees in a fog-hugged landscape of Picasso Marble framed in twisted vines of 14K GF and dangling from a handmade chain of the same precious metal. --SOLD--  Terry's Piece. Celtic-influenced, this amber “Tomb of the Mosquito” is cradled in orbits of 14K GF square wire (to catch & toss the light), finished top and bottom with nested circles of the same wire on 20" of handmade chain. —SOLD—  Pink opalescent glass drop held in a dainty and whimsical frame of 14k GF wire on a 20" chain of the same gold. Only an 1-1/2" high. --SOLD--  A leaf from my garden, some pure silver slip and the purifying heat of a kiln...add a patina that took its own course through pinks and blues and golds...and you have the magic of this 20" necklace on sterling silver chain. --SOLD--  A tiny (1/2" square), textured box made of pure silver clay (PMC)--different patterns, back and front, and slipped onto a delicate 18" chain of sterling silver. --SOLD--  "Blue Apple." What? You say you've never HEARD of a "blue apple?" Well, me either, but that's what this perfectly round slab of blue agate with its top of sterling silver leaves became. Suspended on 18" of sterling silver ring-and-bar chain and a handmade clasp. --SOLD--  Sometimes 14K GF wire and a lump of turquoise dictate their own image. This piece insisted on being an Indian water jug adorned with airy feathers. I obliged, then hung it on an 18" chain of the same gold. --SOLD--  The beautiful lines in a chunk of Crazy Lace Agate can, indeed, make you crazy...or just make you mimic them with bold strands of 14K GF and suspend it from a 24" handmade chain of the same metal. Not something to wear if you don't want people to stare at your, um, chest! --SOLD--  "Gone Fishin'!" Ammonite fossil and sterling silver wire. Approx. 4" long from mouth to tail. I won't make jokes about "the one that got away." Instead, I'll just say --SOLD--  Not for the timid or the faint of heart! At 5" tall, this pendant "flower basket" of purple (dyed) drusy-topped geode slice, and flower-and-leaf laden frame of sterling silver really stands out! --SOLD--  Can you see a face in this dancing doll of dichroic glass and copper. --SOLD--  The first tendrils of Spring...breaking through the warm, brown earth...with some seeds not yet emerged...done with a slice of drusy geode and 14K GF wire. This won 3rd prize in a local art show. A personal favorite, and as such NOT FOR SALE. |