Sara says this opens the heart to love

Sara wore this Always Love pendant of rose quartz and tourmaline to a wedding last week. I made it for her to wear with a long, black formal gown. She wore it with hand-dyed silk ribbon.

Love it when new friends stop by to pick gemstones

I've discovered how much fun it is when friends stop by, new and old, to look at gemstones in my studio and say, "I want that one, and that one, and that one, and can you do your magic and create it for me?"

So I'm creating "magic" for Bibi Ford, for Sherry Blackford, for Taina Edwards, for Joy Matthews and more....

I've made my first dinner ring of peacock blue chalcedony, which I want all of you to see! It was such a hit at the recent Nashville fundraiser for PROTECT, with David Keith, Martina McBride and Trace Adkins there.

And I'm designing a dinner ring for Anita Kay Archer to go with her necklace, bracelet and earrings of copper, silver and prehnite. The dinner ring stone is prehnite, for unconditional love and the enhancement of inner knowledge -- it connects the will and the heart. I have a photo of the stone -- I'll start working on the design tomorrow. I'll post pictures when I'm done. Anita's mentioned a possible show in the fall -- more on that later!

Busy at Miss Ollie's

I had a grand time at "Wine and Women Wednesdays" at Miss Ollie's the second week of May. You never know how things will go, but several wonderful ladies fell in love with my jewelry and it was a really, really good night, thanks to you! And thanks to Rachel Dickson at Miss Ollie's!

Creativity begins when we wonder

Who will wear this pendant of rainbow fluorite, the Genius Stone? A perfect stone, small, beautiful, for just one person who seeks this spirit of creativity.

Show's coming up; stones coming in

Karalyn came over yesterday to see the newest stones. She really likes the purple stichtite in this picture. She loves yellow, lime and fuchsia in the spring. I wonder how the purple would look against her favorite lime silk designer ribbon?

There's a buffalo at my studio

White buffalo turquoise that is from Colorado. It will be great with summer whites, linen, denim. I LOVE gemstone shopping. I think maybe black tourmaline and white moonstone for earrings. And a mix of copper and silver wire. Hope you think so, too!

Travel a serpentine road

Here's my next project. I think it will be beautiful against a spring yellow blouse or black, or bare, tanned summer skin on copper with -- maybe -- a touch of silver and onyx. And next to it, Heart of Power. I believe the copper will seek its way in lines above and below and the labradorite may be above the camo jasper at angles in the upper left and below right, but who knows? It will become what it is meant to be.