Lookbook

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Return

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I’ve always seen hand talismans as symbols of protection: a reminder that living from the heart is the truest way to live. When I feel something deeply, my hand naturally goes to my chest, as if to hold what I feel with care. That gesture reminds me that by honoring what we feel, we stay true to who we are, and that truth is our real protection.

Over time, I’ve come to see that protection isn’t about holding on, it’s about surrender. When we let go of what isn’t meant for us, or who we no longer are, we return to ourselves. And in that return lies our true freedom, our real safety, our pure existence, untied to the past or the future.

***If this piece speaks to you, feel free to claim it before I add it to my online shop (send me an email). I’ll announce shop updates here, and on my social media.

Return Talisman.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.

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Sunshine

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“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sunshine Amulet.
Handmade with amber and recycled sterling silver.

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Possibilities

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Sometimes I think what I love most is solving puzzles: discovering how many variations are possible with limited resources. That’s why I work with so few materials and techniques when I create my pieces.

There are seasons when my mind clings to familiar ideas, unable to look beyond them. But when a new possibility appears, something I’ve never seen before, I feel that spark again.

It reminds me that no matter how long we’ve been here, or how narrow our focus has become, it only takes a small shift for life to open up and something new to unfold.

Possibilities Ring.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.

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Substance

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An old idea, with more weight.

Substance Ring.
Handmade with tourmaline quartz and recycled sterling silver.

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Gemmy (for Jenny)

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If my seven year old self designed a ring, this would be it: gemmy, underwatery, queeny, superpowery.

Gemmy Ring.
Handmade with fluorite and recycled sterling silver.

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Life Cycles

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“Life is about being and becoming.”
— Carl Rogers

Life Cycles Ring.
Handmade with chalcedony and recycled sterling silver.

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Gospel IV

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“Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.”
— Isak Dinesen

Gospel of Silence Earrings IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Tomorrow at 1 pm in my online shop.

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Gospel III

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“Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
— Zenkei Shibayama

Gospel of Silence Earrings III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Gospel II

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“Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.”
— Marianne Williamson

Gospel of Silence II Earrings.
Aretes Evangelio del Silencio II.

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Gospel

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“This silence, this moment, every moment, If it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need.”
— Rumi

Gospel of Silence Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Treasure Map IV

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Treasure Map Earrings IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Treasure Map III

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Treasure Map Earrings III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Treasure Map II

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Treasure Map earrings II.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Treasure Map

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I’ve had so much fun making this new series. Instead of starting with a whole idea, I made small shapes in silver, knowing I’d figure out what to make with them later.

As a kid, I’d cut out images from National Geographic magazines and then glue them back together to tell my own story. The same playfulness guided me here. I knew I wanted long earrings with lots of texture, like topographic maps pointing towards a hidden treasure.

Treasure Map Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Unscripted

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This ring was born from play. I had nothing in mind when I began, letting chance shape its form. Building it felt like solving a visual puzzle, and the outcome surprised me. I hadn’t expected the circular cutouts to become such a vital part of the composition: their darkness the perfect pool from which each chiseled line emanates.

I’m taking its lesson to heart: to trust that by staying true to what feels right in each moment, the pattern of my path will reveal its own beauty.

Unscripted Ring.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.

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Surrender

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A friend told me recently that my life inspires her. She said she doesn’t know many women who choose to be alone—and not just survive it, but thrive in it.

I think of this bird as a symbol of that choice. Open wings. A heart like spring. Not resigned in weakness, but in strength. Not giving up, but letting go; guided not by despair, but by unconquerable hope.

Surrender Talisman.
Handmade with prehnite and recycled sterling silver.

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Mineral

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I built this piece layer by layer. I burned it until the surface bubbled and blistered, as if it had spent years underwater—like the green pond of fluorite at its center.

It’s a ring that feels ancient. A reminder that we belong to something older than time.

Mineral Ring.
Handmade with Fluorite and recycled sterling silver.
This week in my online shop.

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What I Protect

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Lately I’ve been listening to stories where someone’s insensitivity ruins everything—a life, the natural environment, even peace itself. It leaves me heartbroken. Can’t they feel the pain of others?

I’ve also been crying a lot: over the harmony that’s been lost, the tenderness that fades, the things that once connected us as human beings. And I’ve been wondering if feeling this much is a weakness, especially as I grow older.

But today I saw something clearly: judging myself for being sensitive only hardens me. And if I keep doing that, I risk becoming the very thing I grieve—someone who ruins beauty, first in myself, then in others.

What I Protect.
Handmade with amber and recycled sterling silver.

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Navigator Ring

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There are days when I lose direction. When that happens, it can take a long time for me to find my way back. Slowly I return to this: a tiny flicker, a spark that feels like yes: to food, to rest, to work or a walk.

That subtle recognition calms me: I’m no longer looking outside for answers or ways of being. I look within to honor my rhythm, my pace, my choices, because only I know what they feel like.

This ring is not a shield, but a compass. A reminder to look inside and align with what is true. That’s the way back home.

Navigator Ring.
Hand built with garnet and recycled sterling silver.

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Cicada

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I love this idea of going underground and then emerging when the time is right. We’ve been told everything must happen fast. That we must adjust quickly—to loss, to change, to new realities. That we should move on, get over it, find new things, better things. But sometimes the body doesn’t want that. It needs stillness. It needs time to re-accommodate inner paradigms. To adapt. To feel safe again.

Being happy again isn’t something I can force. Sitting with change, letting it move through me at its own pace, is not just valuable, it’s necessary and unavoidable.

I’m realizing, at this middle point in my life, that I’m not meant to cover a huge amount of ground. I’m not here to race through experiences. I’m meant to slow down. To take baby steps. To notice the tiny things. Because they are the most precious.

This is the opposite of a conquering heart. It’s an assimilating one. Life has to seep into me. And I must let it. I must pause long enough for it to reach all the parts of me that need tending. Only then can I truly carry it.

Cicada.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
A piece to honor fertile silence, deep transformation, and the inner timing that can’t be rushed.