I have been wanting to carve a dogwood SOMETHING for ages now. We have them all over Portland and ever year I take about 10 million blurry phone photos of my neighbors’ trees.

I decided to make a pendant (for me! And for you in my shop) This one I’ve cast into 19K rose gold, which has a really lovely peachy color, and I’ve set this first one with a warm rose-cut diamond & an Old European cut. Love these antique guys.

Many more pics after the click:

Who did not get a chance to play with these guys as kids? Tossing them up in the air to watch them helicopter down.. This sycamore (or maple) seedpod pendant is hand-carved, and cast into 18K yellow gold.

This is a carved portrait of a husky mix pup a client sent me, textured wheatgrass background. 14K yellow gold. This was a challenging one to carve for me; likenesses are hard to capture! More pics after the click..

Pendant carved with the Asclepius symbol and surrounded by magnolia blooms (“tulip trees” people like to call them around here). 18K

Custom designed frog pendant, set with green chalcedony cabochon. This is actually the backside of the pendant. 14K yellow gold.

The color of the chalcedony is much more bright and glowy in natural daylight rather than my dim photo box 🙂

This was a custom re-design for a cool bright green jade piece my client sent me. It was to be remade into a pendant for his daughter, who was about to graduate from college.

I carved a little tree frog on the backside. She can decide if she’s feeling jade-ish, or frog-ish, and flip the necklace accordingly.

14K palladium white gold, jade, and a platinum chain.

This was a stone sent to me by the client: she wanted it removed from the current setting (a very simple and clunky prong situation) and have it remade into a new little something-something. It’s hard to judge scale from the photo, but the stone is about 1 inch in diameter—HUGE!

The new something: a custom designed Apple Blossoms & Songbird pendant in 14K gold. It turned out so nicely!!