Category: Jewelry
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This weekend mom made a very cute bracelet, with super glittery large Aurora Swarovski beads. She chose to offset the beads with large silver balls, they worked perfectly with the sterling silver rope-textured toggle clasp she chose: Large, single drop earrings on silver chain complete the set: The piece has incredible glitter-factor ;o) There is…
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Mom’s designs have come a long way since she started out, and last weekend she designed one of the best pieces I’ve seen so far. She went all out on this one: 8mm Square cut smoky quartz Swarovski crystal centrepiece 4mm Square cut aurora Swarovski crystal accents Deep brown Swarovski pearls Gold toho hexagonal cut…
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At last! My mom has been at me for the fact that, despite all the jewellery I make, I’ve never made myself something. Well, here it is, the dragonfly bracelet. It’s very me; I promised myself that if I ever did this I would go all out on materials: Sterling silver oversized dragonfly clasp 4mm…
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Today I wanted to share pics of the birthday gift I made for my friend Kris – For my birthday gift this year, and also to celebrate 20 years of friendship we went to Hawaii, and thanks to her being willing to drive out (at 3 in the morning, in bad weather, on a G2…
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Today I wanted to share a pair of bracelets I just completed for a friend. The request was for two matching charm bracelets in my ‘Iceberg” theme – to be given to a pair of ladies as Christmas gifts. Though the girls are not sisters, these two bracelets are; they were created in tandem and…
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I’ve been working a lot with this idea of preserving the leaves from the absolutely stunning autumn we just had – and I won’t lie to you, there are so many piles of FAIL around the house from earlier versions that today I threw away almost 80 pieces, either leaked or discoloured or broken, or…
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So the show is only 10 days away – I can’t believe it. I’m still in production, though definitely approaching the end. Today I wanted to share the latest woven bracelet, this one is in delicate greens, yellows and earthy colours, inspired by a beautiful Emerald Hummingbird I photographed in Costa Rica. I was so…
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Today I wanted to show off the new Inspira series bracelet for the city of Venice. The first one of these beautiful pieces was sold to a dear friend, but I loved it so much I had to make another one for the show! This delicate bracelet is hand woven, one bead at a time,…
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The Leslie Street Spit in Toronto is one of my favourite places – it was originally the dumping ground for the construction refuse during a period of rapid growth in the 60’s. The land created was colonized over time by over 400 species of plant life and is now a protected area that serves as…
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I wanted to share something special today that I’ve been working very hard on, and that I’m very proud of. Inspired by the absolutely stunning Autumn we had here in Ontario I wanted to create Inspira jewellery inspired by the colours and beauty of Fall. I had used real lava in my Inspira Kiluea bracelet…
The Blue Brick 