Wire work with a Green Kyanite

I had this pretty little stone bead, a Green Kyanite, that I wanted to set… and I had this leaf/pod design I had played with previously… I decided to combine them & Voila!!

I love the way the stone takes on different looks in different lighting & with different colors behind...

Agate in an unbacked bezel...

I love stones, they can be so unique and beautiful… and in the case of this one so unique I decided it should have a very simplistic setting…

The nice thing about putting it in a back-less bezel is that you could wear it either way, its beautiful from both sides!!

I really enjoyed the challenge of creating this piece… I had not done this type of bezel before.

A Piece about Peace...

Here's my latest piece of hand made jewelry…

The stone is a piece of Porcelain Jasper, I thought the pattern on it looked like a nature scene: in the background is a mountain, in front of that a valley, and in the foreground some tree branches…

I mounted it on a piece of silver that has a shape that reminds me (loosely) of a leaf, I created a second "leaf" and pierced it with a Chinese symbol for Peace, then I linked the two pieces together and added a vine-like piece from which to hang it…

My friend Jasper

My friend Jasper is quite handsome, but also camera shy… I managed to get this shot of him all dressed up in his Silver jacket, but it was a fight!

This was a particularly pretty piece of Jasper that had been formed into a bead for stringing, I decided it was so pretty I'd create an open-sided bezel for it instead.