Iris blooms with mums, set up top with a cool wine-colored sapphire, and a handful of green tourmalines down the sides. 14K gold.
Continue readingIris & mums sapphire & tourmaline ring
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Bats & blooms ring
Bats and poppy flowers motif with a handful of scattered little grapey-berry garnets. The stone is set with a cool fire agate, a stone that I didn’t even believe was real the first time I saw one. Behold:
Iridescent rainbow oily-smoky swirls inside this stone. They are so cool!
Continue readingGinkgo Solitaire — new shop design
A new piece for my shop: The Ginkgo Leaf Solitaire. This one shows a ~7mm stone, but could be very easily adapted for stones of other sizes, larger or smaller.
This sample piece is currently for sale as well, ready to ship immediately. It is 18K yellow gold, size 6, and is set with a 1.23ct E/VVS2 lab-grown diamond. Email if interested.
Continue readingSilflay pendant
This was another piece I carved for fun from some random sketches in my notebook. It brings to mind Watership Down, a book I read to my daughter when she was younger and an extremely strange movie that my brother and I watched a lot when we were kids. We loved it of course, as we did all cartoon media; it had an excellent Simon & Garfunkle soundtrack, but man was it intense, bloody, and just plain trippy.
Continue readingKraken+Snake pendant for Medusa intaglio
This amazing chrysoprase Medusa intaglio was carved by Lala Ragimov. I was pretty stoked to get to carve a setting for it: this tentacled sea monster with a silky lavender-pink sapphire eye and a serpent with a bright diamond eye. 19K rose gold.
Continue readingQuetzalcoatl wedding band
This wedding band has a Quetzalcoatl (a feathered serpent creator god from Mesoamerican religions) Ouroboros motif. In the belly of the serpent is set an aquamarine stone from Mt Antero, CO. 18K white gold.
Continue readingPhoenix pendant with opals
Phoenix pendant using a gorgeous suite of opals: wing-carved opals and marquises. This guy was really difficult to photograph and do justice to. Click through for some photos in the outdoor sunlight where the opals really stand out.
Continue readingShop designs
A handful of pieces from the shop I’ve made over the past while, some with customization, such as the High Profile Leafy Solitaire shown here with an oval purple sapphire.
More pieces after the click…
Continue readingPeacock feather ring with pear-shaped teal sapphire
My peacock feather band customized to fit a pear sapphire. This is a beautiful and subtle stone: a teal sapphire that shows different colors in different lighting, more blue, more green, moody, bright.. Turned out beautifully!
Continue readingTiger lily & snake solitaire with peach tourmaline
Tiger lilies & snakes solitaire, set with a lovely peachy tourmaline. The gallery sides of the bezel are carved open so that you can see into the stone’s pavilion, which also allows more light to enter the stone. 14K rose gold.
