Jewelry and Ethics?
My parents owned a wholesale costume jewelry manufacturing business called Thunderbird Gems. When I was a teen I worked in the factory...
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Ellen Hunt
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Blue Genie Art Bazaar May Market
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Catch 'em while you can!
Metals, metals, metals, gems. While these things are beautiful to look at and own, they are also used as market commodities whose prices...
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Ellen Hunt
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
Chanukah in June
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Dec 16, 2019
- 1 min
Rhinestones and Pearls and memories
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Oct 27, 2019
- 2 min
Heaven Shape
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Aug 29, 2019
- 3 min
Jewelry, Meaning and Memory
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....
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Ellen Hunt
- Apr 28, 2019
- 2 min
Barbed Wire (almost) Necklace
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Dec 18, 2018
- 2 min
Year ends, another one starts
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Aug 9, 2018
- 1 min
Between the River and the Wall
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Jun 13, 2018
- 2 min
Jewelry and Politics
Some will argue that every act is political, and the purchase of jewelry certainly is. There are endless articles about the true value...
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Ellen Hunt
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Architecture and Jewelry
There are a lot of architect jewelers, and jewelers who like architectural themes. Zaha Hadid was my favorite architect jeweler, but the...
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Ellen Hunt
- Dec 26, 2017
- 3 min
Yad=Hand
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
Patience, please
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,...
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Ellen Hunt
- Jul 18, 2017
- 2 min
Mad in America
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- May 25, 2017
- 2 min
Rain, rain, rain
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Feb 7, 2017
- 2 min
Rivers and Walls and What's in Between
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Dec 5, 2016
- 2 min
Jewelry and Travel
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...
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Ellen Hunt
- Oct 18, 2016
- 2 min
And we're off...
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,...
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Ellen Hunt
- Sep 20, 2016
- 2 min
More Casting About
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...
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