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This piece features the art of another local santa cruz company, Third Eye Pinecones. Third Eye Pinecones does a great job of pairing natural pinecone slices with different mineral and gemstones. This pendant features crushed turquoise that was mixed with phosphorescent power so it glows in the dark. I wanted to give the […]
This is my second week working on this crown piece. Right now I’m working on building the centerpiece that will go over the forehead. I am planning to incorporate three or four more stones into the centerpiece before I attach the centerpiece to the wire that will form the headband. By starting with a […]
I love making art for other people. It feels really special to give someone else a piece of art that has my energy literally wrapped up in it. When the focus of my art is to share it with everyone else, it can be easy to forget that I really am doing this for me. I […]
This week I am starting on a new project. I’ve recently been inspired to start making crowns! I’m excited about this project because I think the crowns will give me more room for wire and stones. I like to think of it as working with a bigger canvas. Pictured above of three stones that will […]
This week I had the pleasure of working on a custom piece for a friend of mine, working with a fluorite spear. Its a special challenge to make a piece of jewelry based off of someone else’s vision. Most of the time, when I am creating I get to call all the shots and have full […]
After my last progress post on this piece, I had a burst of inspiration to add the woven panels on the side. I feel like they really helped to bring the piece together. The final step in the completion of the pendant was to add the bail. I had designed the piece to have […]
Bringing multiple stones together in a way that is cohesive and not busy takes awareness and sensitivity. This is an earlier piece that I made. The wire work is very simple but the combination of stones makes the piece have more impact. The first stone that I started with was the cluster of smokey […]
This piece is very close to being complete. For those of you that have been keeping up with my posts, you have seen the progression over the weeks as I add more layers of wire and stones. This week I added decorative detail work. My goals were to make the piece as sturdy as […]
Over my years of wire wrapping there have been a lot of pendants that I’ve made with the intention to sell, that I ended up keeping for myself. This is not one of those. This piece wasn’t one that grabbed my attention after it was made or just looked too good around my neck to […]
Last week I finished adding on all the stone components that I’m going to be working with in this piece. Now I’ve begun to create the shape that will weave around the stones in the pendant. When working with multiple stones, I initially let the arrangement of the stones dictate what shape the piece […]
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