Completed custom work

This weekend I finished up the custom POP smile necklace I've been working on and am pleased with how it turned out. Hopefully my customer will be too! She requested an adjustable extender chain for the cast hand clasp which worked out great. I decided to embellish the end of the necklace with a blood coral drop to tie in the red resin and complete the chain:

A custom grouping… all for my Biggest Fan in Texas!

And last but not least, a custom Have a Heart Bust pendant for a woman who designs for Mattel (!!) and also happens to do burlesque on the side - too fun and appropriate!

Red Drip Necklace

I just completed this new necklace - a bit of an experiment for me. It will probably be for sale at Crafty Bastards. Made of sterling silver, plastic Barbie hand and red coral droplets.

custom necklace

I just completed this custom necklace for an etsy customer and am pleased with how it came out…


A simple yet bold, fun pendant. This is the type of new work that I will be making for my wholesale line. I only wish I had more time to develop it! I have so many ideas and never enough time to produce them these days. As I work through designs I will be posting some prototypes on my etsy shop so check back often. Etsy really is an amazing online community, filled with so many good people with BIG hearts, selling and shopping. I'm happy to be a part of it.

studio pics…

This one is part of a piece I'm in the process of finishing. I like it as a singular element as well with just the Ken hand cupping her cheek (my fav Barbie lips!)

He's half the "man" he used to be…

More face rings in new shapes and fun spring colors…

A couple of my favorite heads that I can't seem to bring myself to cut into just yet. So for now they top some of my pencils and await use within the perfect piece.

A brooch in the works. This piece has gone through many changes and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. But I do like what's happening texturally with the new "drilling polka-dot effect" within the resin as well as the color combo of aqua and red.

Toy Boat

Dad's boat…

I'll have more random studio pics to share tomorrow. (I went a little crazy with Dave's digital camera!)

a little more aqua and red…

(Pic of my dad's toy boat will be next and also a few shots of what I've been busy with in my studio lately…)

Colors I'm inpired by lately…

…red and aqua. I am obsessed with this combination lately. I'm using it for the epoxy resin elements in a few of my pieces for the Facere Jewelry Art Gallery Signs of Life show opening May 16th in Seattle.


It all started with a toy boat of my father's. He started collecting them through eBay a few years back and they have since taken over my parent's house! It's my favorite of all of them, a beautiful rusty old 1950's aqua and red toy boat. I'll take a pic of it and share that soon.

Flickr is so great for finding images of absolutely anything for reference. I searched by color and found all these!