My latest Inspira bracelet is entitled “Plaça Reial” – after a famous plaza in the Barri Gòtic of Bacelona. I shot the plaza last fall. The bracelet is a different style than the others, to try and evoke more of the gothic/artsy vibe so intense in…
Kiluea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. Last spring, my girlfriend and I celebrated 20 years of friendship by traveling together to Hawaii. I think the most intense, and awe-inspiring part of that trip was a 4am boat trip we took, on 20…
My mom has been hard at work lately with her new designs, and I wanted to share some of them here. As usual, she created playful and loud ‘look-at-me’ designs, and her usual taste for unusual and creative photography, even utilizing an old fence and…
This week I wanted to feature a new medium I’m playing with that everyone seems to love – using glass tiles to carry artwork. These tiles can be used to make pendants, fridge magnets, keychains, zipper pulls…. I’ll bet there are tons more that I…
More Inspira goodies this week, these bracelets were inspired by photos of mine taken in Paris, Venice, Barcelona and Rome. The colours, textures and mood of each piece are drawn directly from the photos, and my memories of the cities. Each piece is hand-woven…
I’m inspired by so many things, and I love to express that inspiration in so many different mediums. Lately I’ve been playing with an idea called ‘Inspira’ – the idea that a photo can inspire a bracelet, that a skein of hand dyed wool can…
So my mom has decided to take it upon herself to design jewelry too, and her aesthetic is wonderful and natural and very playful. She designed and I constructed a piece together yesterday that I wanted to share here, (and on top of that, she…
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