My final sale of the year will start this Friday, October 21, at 10am CST.
Everything in my online shop will be 30% off. This includes my jewelry, drawings and paintings.
Please enter the coupon code: 2016SALE (single word) to get your discount.
The sale ends on October 31 at 10 pm CST.
I’m going to take a break from my jewelry bench, I have a mild case of tendonitis in my right thumb that needs time to heal.
In the meantime, I will work on projects that don’t require physical strength, such as sewing, painting and teaching. I will miss working with metal, but I am sure that I’ll return refreshed and full of new ideas.
These are the bones of our ancestors. If they had not become extinct 65 million years ago, we would not be here. In the same way, without your sincere support and kind words of encouragement, I would not have come so far.
Thank you for joining me as I am. I feel much stronger and lighter.
I’ve had many losses in the past couple of years. My dark hair. My father’s health. My favorite uncle. My childhood. The original giddy enthusiasm for my work. My blind trust in a higher power that loves and guides me. My belief in destiny. The feeling that anything I want is possible if I set my mind to it. The certainty that I have all the time I need. My sense of magic and synchronicity.
All of this has left a hollow feeling in my chest that physically hurts. Like a punching bag that has taken too many blows. Exhausted and hunched over, I give up. I can’t do this alone. I refuse to give up on la la land. Being reasonable has made me grow up, but it has also left me weary and without super powers. Who am I, if I can’t have a rich inner world of make-believe?
Found necklace.
Handmade with labradorite and recycled sterling silver.
The Totem pendants are now in my online shop.
If you no longer see the piece you are looking for, that means it has already sold.
I will add the five Totem necklaces to my online shop this Monday, between 1 and 2 pm, Mexico City time.
Sign up here if you want me to notify you the minute they are available.
“There is a fierce concentration inside of you; dormant — it is in your blood. It is the strength of your ancestors. It is the hammer and anvil of eons which struck the hardened steel of your spirit into a weapon of survival. ”
Jaguar Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
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I once experienced real freedom. It came after many hours of meditation. I was no longer me, no longer the fragments of memory that make up my history. Not a child, nor a daughter, not a sister or an artist. I was not this body or these feelings. I was just space. Empty space. Terrifying and liberating space.
Freedom Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
From the deepest waters.
Beluga Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Follow what feels true to you.
Integrity Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
I brought this one back from my dreams.
Eagle Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
When a line becomes a circle.
Violet Light earrings.
Handmade with iolite and recycled sterling silver.
This week's challenge: large, luminous, lightweight earrings.
Golden Light earrings.
Handmade with Chiapas amber and recycled sterling silver.
“I want a black thick banged up ring.
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I hope I got this right.
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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.
Before I began to work as a jeweler, I was hired as a translator for a group of Canadian filmmakers who wanted to document the ravages caused by current mining practices in Mexico.
The film crew and I visited a large Canadian-run mine in a colonial town called Cerro de San Pedro, in the state of San Luis Potosí. The San Pedro mountain was originally a sacred site for the local indigenous population, but it was transformed into a mining town when the Spaniards discovered gold and silver in the16th century. For the next 100 years, the metal ore was extracted from underground tunnels using handheld mining tools.
Today, the fine metal ore in the underground mines is scarce, and can only be extracted using a modern system called “open pit mining.” This method uses thousands of gallons of water mixed with cyanide to extract metal from huge mountains of previously crushed underground rock, a practice that is highly toxic for the environment.
When I returned from the visit, I had already decided to become a silversmith, so I knew I had to find a way to do it without further harming the planet. I eventually found a local source that supplied sterling silver recycled from x-rays and photographic processes. This is the silver that I use to make my jewelry.
