Green Ombré EarringsOctober 2014 Jadeite, malachite, 14 karat gold Although I don't do a lot of bead work, I do have a decent supply of semi precious stone beads and occasionally look at them to inspire myself to think along tracks I don't usually follow; this tends to make the rest of my work more interesting as a result. I happened to fixate on three separate strands of beadstwo different colors of jadeite and one strand of malachitethat were each individually salable,

Originally a symbol of the Ottoman Empire

For a holiday gift exchange

This is my wife's wedding band

as I'd learned from version 1

These earrings are a different take on the classic donut earrings

it could only be called Kilter

Since I was doing this all as a bas relief

our relationship represented to me the passing of the winter of my own discontent (to steal a phrase)

on the occasion of my cousin's wedding--I always found it amusing that my DNA had been to Chicago but that I hadn't

written in a French-influenced Latin script

The hammered silver brings to mind the ocean and how the choppy waves reflect sun at all angles

This pendant combines two classic Jewish themes