It's time to climb new mountains.
Topography Earrings II.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Topography
The only way to realize your dreams is to walk towards them.
First Topography Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Shop Updates: Woven Earrings
Creating art is an inner journey. As I chisel the surface of each piece, I become aware of my interior world: emotions, thoughts, struggles, insights, change. All weave together to make up who I am.
Woven Earrings. Now in my online shop.
Woven Earrings
I will add the Woven Earrings to my online shop this Monday, between 1 and 2 pm CST.
Every piece is one of a kind and I do not repeat it. Please sign up here if you want me to email you the minute they are available.
Woven Earrings V
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Woven Earrings V.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Woven Earrings IV
The day arrives when you can no longer carry the labels that defined you in the past.
Woven Earrings IV.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Woven Earrings III
When you feel lost, return to your self. Everything makes sense there.
Woven Earrings III.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Woven Earrings II
“When I say artist I mean the (wo)man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.”
Woven Earrings II.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Woven Earrings I
Above all things, learn to trust yourself.
Woven earrings I.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Light Earrings
I will add the Light Earrings to my shop this Monday, between 1 and 2 pm, Mexico City time. Please sign up here if you want me to notify you as soon as they are available. Each piece is one of a kind.
Crimson light
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
Crimson Light earrings.
Handmade with garnet and recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.
Sunlight
I usually take pictures of myself modeling my jewelry on our first floor balcony, which faces a busy street. The best light is between 2 to 4 pm, which coincides with lunch time, and allows many people to closely observe the woman on the balcony taking pictures of herself. If I appear serious in my photographs, it's because I am ignoring cat calls and stares as I try my best to look natural and relaxed.
This week, my neighbor was on vacation, so I was able to calmly take pictures in the bright, quiet courtyard at the entrance to her apartment. Oh the joy of privacy!
Sunlight earrings.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.
Fresh Light
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Fresh Light earrings.
Handmade with chrysoprase and recycled sterling silver.
Violet Light
When a line becomes a circle.
Violet Light earrings.
Handmade with iolite and recycled sterling silver.
Golden Light
This week's challenge: large, luminous, lightweight earrings.
Golden Light earrings.
Handmade with Chiapas amber and recycled sterling silver.
7 Years of Jewelry
I created my first jewelry collection seven years ago this month. Since then, I have designed and hand-built over 1,500 one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces.
I still consider myself a beginner.
These are some of my favorite pieces from the past seven years.
Most of them have sold, and I do not repeat them.
You can see what is available in my online shop.
My Jewelry Box
When I began to make jewelry six years ago, I rarely liked what was available, and the pieces I did appreciate were beyond my budget. As a creative self starter, the obvious solution was to make my own designs.
After experimenting for a year, I began to develop a distinctive voice as a jeweler, and decided to try to make a living selling my work. From the start I used sterling silver –which is expensive– so I rarely kept anything I made. As soon as I sold a piece, I turned around and bought enough silver to make the next. In this way, I grew my business, and eventually made enough money to make jewelry that I could keep.
When I decided to make a cast collection and replicate my best pieces, I had to keep the original in sterling silver in case the rubber mold was ever damaged. And so, my personal jewelry collection kept growing.
Now, I rarely leave my house unadorned. I feel protected and powerful when I wear my jewelry. Every piece in my collection has polished with time, and like old tools that are given good use, they become more beautiful with wear.
People ask me if I find it hard to let go of my work. If I knew that the piece I just made would be my last, I would certainly keep it. But I hope to live a long and productive life, and the pleasure I get from creating my work is greater than the one I obtain from wearing it. I also confess that every now and then I can't resist making myself something I love.