Series

Wheel of Life Series

In its structure, my life has not changed much since the quarantine began, as I work from home and live alone. What has changed, is the quality of my time. Now that everyone lives like me, I feel less rushed and more at ease with my natural rhythm. I realized that the pressure for productivity had diminished my joy to create, and now I give each piece the time and space it needs. I experiment more, and often I spend all day drawing.

The Wheel of Life series was born during this period. I named each piece after a Hindu God of creation or destruction, as a reminder that in nature one cannot exist without the other. I will soon add the series to my online shop. 

I hope that you and your loved ones stay in good health, and that during this time you also connect with your true nature.

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Vishnu

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We will remember these days as the time when we all lived (separately) as one.

Vishnu Necklace.
Handmade with lemon quartz and recycled sterling silver.

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Venture

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I spent the morning writing blog posts. As I wrote, I felt inspired and confident. What great ideas! I thought. Now I’ve re-read them and they seem shallow and empty. Is this how I’ve been writing lately? For years? Stories I think are interesting, but are not worth reading at all? 

Later, full of shame and regret, I realized there is no way to avoid this. I make a living by sharing what I create. Unless I show up as I am: informed or ignorant, profound or shallow, I cannot show up at all. When I work at my jewelry bench, I have to be willing to make junk or high art. I never know which is which, because there is no formula for either one. 

A voice in my head says, who the hell are you to write about anything? Why should anyone care? I’m sure you hear it too. I think we all do. But I will continue to make things and write about them, because if I listened to this voice, I would be half dead. I’d no longer experiment and learn, fail and succeed. After all, everything is an attempt at something. Life itself is an attempt. I choose to participate.

Venture Ring.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
This Wednesday in my online shop.

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Continuity

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There is a space I enter when I am able to work in my studio for several days in a row. It is a deeper place in my mind where I feel more connected to my hands and body, and where I feel present as I chisel each tiny line on the surface of a piece. I call this space the blessing.

Continuity Ring.
Handmade with rainbow obsidian and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.

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Quietude

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I love living alone. It makes me aware of my changing nature, of the cycles of my mind and body.
I rest when I am tired, eat when I am hungry, and connect with friends when I am full of energy. 
I have the gift of time and space to integrate my experience of the world around me.

Quietude Ring.
Handmade with labradorite moonstone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Immerse

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One of the things I most appreciate in my life is that I can read every day. It is how I make sense of the world and find out what interests me. It’s how I model those I admire, and uncover my shadow in those I reject. Reading expands my imagination and makes me feel intensely. Stories are how I learn.

If I like the narration, I will listen to a book on Audible, otherwise, I will read it on Kindle. These are books I’ve read recently (in no particular order):

The Lost City of the Monkey God -Douglas Preston

The Work we Were Born to do -Nick Williams

Thou Shalt not be Aware -Alice Miller

Healing the Shame that Binds you -John Bradshaw

Born Standing Up -Steve Martin

Art and Soul Reloaded -Pam Grout

The Actor’s Life -Jenna Fischer

Chasing Aphrodite -Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino

Pussy -Regena Thomashauer

Bad Blood -John Carreyrou

Three Women -Lisa Taddeo

Men Without Women -Haruki Murakami

More than Enough -Elaine Welteroth

The Mother Tongue -Bill Bryson

The Patron Saint of Liars -Ann Patchett

It’s not your Money -Tosha Silver

Beautiful Boy -David Sheff

In Pieces -Sally Field

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up -Marie Kondo

The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn

Ninth Street Women -Mary Gabriel

Get Weird -CJ Casciotta

The Muralist -B. A. Shapiro

Cooking for Picasso -Camille Aubray

Sapiens -Yuval Noah Harari

The Art Forger -B. A. Shapiro

Less -Andrew Sean Greer

An Abbreviated Life -Ariel Levine

Self Therapy -Jay Earley

The Tao of Fully Feeling -Pete Walker

North -Scott Jurek

Circe -Madeline Miller

Forward -Abby Wambach

The Insight Cure -John Sharp

A Thousand Names for Joy -Byron Katie

The Children Act -Ian McEwan

Behold Dreamers -Imbolo Mbue

The Secret History -Donna Tart

Eckhart Tolle -A New Earth

Finding your Way in a Wild new World -Martha Beck

Steering by Starlight -Martha Beck

The Anatomy of a Calling -Lissa Rankin

The Betrayal Bond -Patrick J. Carnes

Caveat Emptor -Ken Perenyi

Love Warrior -Glennon Doyle Merton

How Children Learn -John Holt

Self Comes to Mind -Antonio Damasio

The Body Keeps Score -Bessel Van Der Kolk

Inner Work -Robert A Johnson

Finding your Element -Ken Robinson

The War of Art -Steven Pressfield

Bird by Bird -Anne Lammott

On Writing -Steven King

Walking Home -Sonia Choquette

Loving What is -Byron Katie

Radical Acceptance -Tara Brach

Peter Pan -J. M. Barrie

The Power of Self Compassion -Laurie J. Cameron

This is Marketing -Seth Godin

Find Another Dream -Maysoon Zayid

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers -Debbie Ford

Talking to Strangers -Malcolm Gladwell

How to Change your Mind -Michael Pollan

Listening to Ayahuasca -Donna Postel

What I talk About When I Talk about Running -Haruki Murakami

City of Girls -Elizabeth Gilbert

Mating in Captivity -Esther Perel

Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen

The End of the Affair -Graham Greene

The Female Persuasion -Meg Wolitzer

Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov

The Seat of the Soul -Gary Zukav

David Copperfield -Charles Dickens

The Color of Water -James McBride

State of Wonder -Anne Patchett

Bel Canto -Anne Patchett

21 Lessons of the 21st Century -Yuval Noah Harari

Call me by Your Name -André Aciman

The Weight of Ink -Rachel Kadish

Calypso -David Sedaris

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark -Michelle McNamara

Total Cat Mojo -Jackson Galaxy

Nevertheless -Alec Baldwin

When you are Engulfed in Flames -David Sedaris

Theft by Finding -David Sedaris

Sherlock Holmes -Arthur Conan Doyle

Born to Run -Bruce Springsteen

Just Kids _Patti Smith

Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides

A Life in Parts -Bryan Cranston

The Power of Focusing -Ann Weiser Cornell

The Invention of Nature -Andrea Wulf

Creativity Inc -Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Year of Yes -Shonda Rhymes

Yes, Chef -Marcus Samuelsson

The Art of Asking -Amanda Palmer

Rising Stronng -Brené Brown

The Power of Vulnerability -Brené Brown

Elon Musk -Ashlee Vance

Big Magic -Elizabeth Gilbert

The Virgin Way -Richard Branson

Quiet -Susan Cain

The Goldfinch -Donna Tartt

Mind over Medicine -Lissa Rankin

Finding Ultra -Rich Roll

Unbroken -Laura Hillenbrand

The Personal MBA -Josh Kaufman

Made to Stick -Chip and Dan Heath

Purple Cow -Seth Godin

Start with Why -Simon Sinek

David and Goliath -Malcolm Gladwell

Immersion Ring.
Handmade with Chalcedony and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Shop Update: Thorn Series

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The Thorn Series is now available in my online shop.

Please let me know what size you would like your ring when you make your purchase. Here’s help if you need to calculate your ring size.

If the piece you are looking for is no longer in the shop, it has already sold.

Happy weekend!

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Thorn Series

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Thank you for your warm welcome! Your encouragement always inspires me.

I am finally settled into my new home, happy to be back at play in my studio.

The Thorn Series combines my favorite gemstone (fluorite) color (agave green) and plant (the maguey, mother of mezcal). 

I will add this series to my online shop on Friday at 1 pm, CT.  

Things to know before then:

I can cut any ring to fit size 6 to 10. 

Once I cut your ring, you can still open it half a size.

I ship to most parts of the world. 

Shipping in my Etsy shop is free. 

Every piece I make is one of a kind and I don’t repeat it.

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Thorn

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I am strength and I am light. I am the beauty of the thorn and the sublime in pain. I am structure in chaos. I am a plant and I am a star. My insides cut and chop and rip out everything to grow and be reborn.

I am the cactus, I am the maguey. I am the deep well where everything rests. I am the void where life sprouts. I am the beginning and the end.

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Amber Rings

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I will add the Amber rings to my Etsy shop this Friday at 1 pm CST.
I can cut any ring to fit size 6 to 10. Once I cut your ring to fit you, you will still be able to open it half a size.

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Shop Update: Nurture Series

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The Nurture pendants are now available in my Etsy shop.

Each pendant includes a darkened sterling silver chain that can be 16”, 18” or 28” inches long. Please let me know which you prefer when you make your purchase.

Every piece is made with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver, they are all one of a kind.