Dramatic & Sparkling Autumn Sundial Design

Fashion and jewelry in Autumn are all about the soft earthy colors; rust, cream, brown, olive, with layers of deep rich reds, crimson, forest greens, golds and black. With the upcoming holidays bring with it many parties, the look of sparkle and elegance is all the rage. This new piece has all that and more with a lot of sparkle. This latest custom jewelry design is no exception......we started with a ceramic pendant, which looks somewhat like a sundial; the warm caramel color is a perfect match to the faceted brilliance of crystals in rich cranberry and golden topaz.

We finished it with a chain extender for wearing at different lengths; the earring are just beautiful in swing style hoops with lots of crystal hand twisted charms.

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The Hues of Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli is a rock, a contact metamorphoses limestone that contains lazurite. It also is known to contain pyrite, the added sparkle of golden-yellow and white flakes of calcite. Other trace minerals can include hauuyne, sodalite, diopside, feldspar, mica, apatite, and zircon just to name a few. The stone was once powdered and mixed with oil to produce the pigment ultramarine(literally, 'beyond the sea'), which is seen in the beautiful blues of Renaissance paintings. Lapis is Latin for “stone”. The names of both lazulie and lazurite are derived from the Persian word Lazbuward and Latin word Lazulum, meaning “blue” or “heaven”. The lapis lazuli name, often shorted to lapis, is sometimes mistakenly used for the mineral lazurite.

The ancient Egyptians used it extensively in religious ceremonies, and lapis items were found in the tomb of Tutankhamen. It was a popular stone in Mesopotamia, Persia, and the ancient city of Ur, which had a large trade in lapis lazuli. The Greeks and Romans used it as a reward for bravery. The ancients also employed it for inlaid work and for jewelry, amulets, and talismans.

The value of lapis lazuli is largely determined by the abundance and color of the dark intense blue lazurite. The colors range from greenish-blue to purple-blue. The flecks of gold pyrite and white calcite can often increase the value or, when too numerous or too large, decrease it.

This new design features deep blue lapis lazuli stones with flecks of pyrite, disks of natural kyanite, faceted crystals and at the center an old style metal cloisonne round pendant; the blue hues bring out the best in the lapis and kyanite.

Traditionally Lapis Lazuli Properties: Wisdom, intuition, awareness, objectivity, clarity, creativity, expanded consciousness, dreams, purity, courage, serenity.

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Sassy Southwest Design for Fall

This design in a little different and full of soft colors for the coming fall season. Featured is a lovely agate pendant; cut square with a nice polish on both sides. The pendant is lovely colored in soft shades of tan with white and splashes of dark purple.

  

I hand twisted several faceted rondelle crystals accent above the pendant and act as a bail; then I added in more faceted crystals in complimenting colors, golden rutilated quartz faceted hexagons and metal accents in gold tone pewter spacers.

 

 

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Mixed Metals & Natural Stones

This new designs features a mix of metals in techniques; at the center is a large brush antique brass metal pendant cut-out in geometric design with enamel gun-metal colors. 

Accenting either side are two large hand wired double coils in gun-metal non-tarnish wire. Adding to the design for a contrast of color for fall, carved jade in soft olive from dark to light colors and exotic Arizona ivoryite. 

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All custom designed artisan jewelry featuring some of nature's most brilliant and historic creations!

Earthy Fall Design in Morocco Fossil

This new fall design features a beautiful and uniquely colored orthocreas fossil. Normally you see this fossil in black and white colors; however once in a while you get the rare slate with slight off coloring of olive or green and brown shades. This fossil comes from the fossilized squid found in Morocco.

Orthoceras are a famous and very large fossil deposit of animals that can be found in Morocco, North Africa. Ancestors to ammonites, Orthoceras are extinct sea creatures, and depending on what source you refer to, they date from the lower Ordovician to Triassic ages (500 to 190 million years ago). 




As they died, their shells accumulated in great numbers on the sea floor where they were aligned by currents, buried by sediments, and transformed over the ages preserved in black limestone. Today, this prehistoric sea floor is ironically, found in the dramatic Atlas Mountain Range in southern Morocco at the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert.







 

The necklace strands are crafted with natural nuggets of prehnite stones, ceramic coins and metal accents in braided disk and puffy smooth spacers. The fossil is hand wire wrapped in a two-tone look of gun-metal and silver non-tarnish wire.  The squid fossil really shows the chambes and is a very nice pendant.

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Chic & Bold in Black & Purple

I love this necklace set, it is fast becoming one of my favorites! I started at the focal with a beautiful black agate pendant in the shape of an off-set donut; it has a nice smooth high polish. I have accented and bailed it using non-tarnish silver wire. 

   

The strands of the necklace are what really make this one rich in color; faceted graduated deep purple amethyst. The natural stone is just striking against the black and cream colors. 

There are also faceted barrels of onyx that have been painted in cream geometric patterns. The metal accents are braided light-weight silver tone pewter disks. It has been finished with a textured t-bar goggle and includes matching dangle earrings in the same amethyst stones.

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Hand Wire Wrapped Fall Agate Slice

This new necklace set features an all naturally colored Brazilian agate slice pendant! The colors of orange and rust with some cream remind me of a deep fall sunset. I have hand wire wrapped it using non-tarnish brass wire with lots of twists at the bail.

  


I wanted this necklace to be versatile enough to wear any time of year, so I put softer bright colors within the necklace strands itself. I started with creamy smooth glass pearls, green marbled ceramic beads that hare caged in gold tone wire, and a little bit of sparkle with faceted rondelle crystals in light fall colors.

This piece is both elegant and classy using a variety of techniques; wire wrapping, caging, and mixing of ceramic, glass pearls and crystals with a lovely natural agate stone.

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