This ring will join my collection of jewelry inspired by the book “Dune” by Frank Herbert. The book “Dune” contains many known alchemical symbols such as the Ouroboros. The plot spreads over a time of tens of thousands of years and shows the cyclicality of the universe. The author, Frank Herbert, tried to deal with the [...]

I’ve chosen the design “Fish” by Naeeme Ghafoori Seydani from Iran as the winner in my jewelry design contest. Here is what he wrote about the design: “My country (IRAN) is a dry place so in my culture water and everything that is related to water is holy; fish is a symbol of life, food and [...]

So I have a bunch of in-progress pictures to show you guys.  First, I’ve started cutting out the tiger brooch, which is going be super complicated and may take me a while - I want more practice with the other pieces before I do more on this one, I think.  I got the major pieces [...]

Printed off the sketches, rubber-cemented them to the metal, cut out the pieces: Assembled: Next step is soldering!

My jeweler’s bench and equipment came today!!! I can’t contain my excitement!!! My flex shaft came with this awesome little holder that spins for all of my flex shaft tools!!! And here’s the card table set up with my stuff; the two yellow bins are for my copper and brass: I still [...]

My mother has asked me to make her a brooch similar to my Seasons Brooches that I did for my father-in-law. One of her favorite flowers are irises, so she asked for an iris brooch. Like with the smaller marriage-of-metals piece in my previous post, I first design it in Illustrator. Then [...]

The ideal cut diamond can actually mean different things to different people. Of course, when talking to the Average Joe (or Jane) on the street, they already have a pre-conceived notion of the perfect ring, or the ideal cut diamond, in their head. Some people like round diamonds, some like marquise cut diamonds, [...]