Flying Pig Pendant!! Through a starry sky full of Old European cut antique diamonds! How much better can you really get, honestly?
18K yellow gold, and more pics after the click:
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dogwood ring
This was a de-construction of an old wedding band, reserving the original stones, and a re-design of a new piece. Dogwood ‘flowers,’ diamonds, and ruby, in 14K gold.
I just love dogwood, and it makes such a great motif for jewelry. Many more photos below:
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This set of wedding bands: The ‘solitaire’ with an architectural rosette flanked by olive branches, plus a pair of fluted column wedding bands. I think these turned out wonderfully.
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Custom designed wedding set: Water splashing and waves solitaire, set with a lovely delicate blue aquamarine and two diamonds. The wedding band is a nice wide band carved with an open ocean and breaking waves motif. 14K white gold.
The bezel was left open to get a peek of that nice deep pavilion, and to allow additional light to enter the stone from the side. Many more pics after the click!
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Featuring such fantastic creatures as the narwhal, a dragon, and a hound. Surrounding a lovely giant amethyst. 14K. This was a really fun one to carve, need I even mention? (More pics after the click 🙂
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One of my customers sent me a note recently letting me know she saw my ring on an online Chinese marketplace, so I did an image search, and sure enough, there it was! On several sites! (Many of which I’d never even heard of.) In fact, eBay alone had over 20 different listings for my ring.
Of course, I did what any outraged artist would do when she discovers that not only did someone blatantly rip off her design and go big with it, but they were also using all my own photos of my custom ring to sell it: I ordered one.
(Click through to read what happened next..)
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ginkgo solitaire #2
Ginkgo leaves solitaire based on a design I did several years ago, with a straight-edged border and openwork. 18K white gold.
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peach blossom solitaire
Peach blossom motif solitaire designed around this amazing Old Mine Cut 1.39ct diamond. Flanked with two additional 2.5mm rose-cuts on either side. Designed with an open bezel to allow more light into the stone and so you can peek at that lovely pavilion:
