My parents owned a wholesale costume jewelry manufacturing business called Thunderbird Gems. When I was a teen I worked in the factory...

https://bluegenieartbazaar.com/ You are invited to shop at the covid conscious Blue Genie Art Bazaar May Market. I am so pleased to be a...

Metals, metals, metals, gems. While these things are beautiful to look at and own, they are also used as market commodities whose prices...

The world is on fire. As my daughter said, the plagues are upon us: Australia burned; we have the covid-19 plague; the 17 year locusts...

A few weeks ago my sweet father-in-law moved into memory care. In the process of going through the few things he still had my husband...

Sometimes, the inspiration for a shape comes from the bottom of a bucket. Literally. I’ve been doing a bit of work on discovering the...

In the past few weeks I’ve been to a wedding and a funeral, watching someone I’ve know since he was a boy join his life with his beloved....

The inspiration for pieces of jewelry sometimes comes to me from my day job as an architect. Last month I met my work partner, Everett...

What a year this has been! I decided at the end of 2017 not to travel for jewelry shows, after having an expensive and downright awful...

Sometimes the image on paper is as striking as the reality on the ground. In this case, it's the shape of the Rio Grande/Bravo and the...

Some will argue that every act is political, and the purchase of jewelry certainly is. There are endless articles about the true value...

There are a lot of architect jewelers, and jewelers who like architectural themes. Zaha Hadid was my favorite architect jeweler, but the...

The story of the yad is a simple one. My synagogue commissioned a new Torah, and I volunteered to make a yad, or pointer, for the new...

This past weekend I was in DC for a fine craft show, and without going into too many details, I found myself willingly slowing down,...

It is Made in America week, promoted by the White House. But did you realize that it is almost impossible for fine jewelers to comply...

When you live in a drought prone area, rain is a blessing. When you have a tent outside for an art fair and it's raining, well, you wish...

I have worked as an architect for more than 25 years, and my work partner is a landscape architect (and a regular architect too), so I've...

Jewelry and Travel I've been home for the past two weeks or so and it feels great. For the first time I went to retail fine craft shows...

And we're off... To DC that is, for the American Fine Craft Show from October 21-23, at the DC Armory. I've been working all summer,...

More Casting About Since I rented a jewelry studio this summer, I've spent a few days every week casting jewelry, getting ready for two...