Stackpole Books – Found Object/Recycled Jewelry Book

July 14, 2009

Exciting news, I recently signed a contract with Stackpole Books to author a book about my jewelry made of recycled/reclaimed materials!! I’m soooo very excited about this project which will include work I’ve created in the past year as well as some new pieces made specifically for this publication. Plus a few of my jewelry […]

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Basic Jewelry Course at Metalwerx, Waltham – Massachusetts

July 10, 2009

Well, after a little break I’m back at Metalwerx in Waltham, Massachusetts to teach jewelry. This August I will be teaching a basic jewelry course focusing on the pendant as a point of departure for explorations with tools and fire that will turn you into a serious junky for making your own jewelry. If by […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #25 YOU!!

July 9, 2009

#25 – YOU Without you there would be no exquisite body to adorn with my creations. Without you there would be no creative collaboration. Without you I would have no inspiration at all! Top to Bottom: Misty – 1. wearing her fossil necklace, sterling silver + fossil 2. wearing her necklace made with geodes from […]

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Inspired Jewelry from the Museum of Arts and Design NYC

June 26, 2009

25 Things that Inspire Me to Make Jewelry:#23 Other Art Jewelers Hurray, finally this fabulous book has arrived on my doorstep!!! Last autumn my good friend and jeweler Sarah Nelson and I took a day trip down to NYC to see the Art Smith jewelry show at the Brooklyn Museum as well as visit the […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #24 Pre-Columbian Art + Architecture

June 26, 2009

#24 Pre–Columbian Art + Architecture My 6th grade history teacher presented the history of Latin America to me in a way that made me fall madly in love with the art and architecture of that part of the world. I fell so hard that I swore that some day I would visit Machu Picchu in […]

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Inspired Jewlery from the Museum of Arts and Design NYC

June 25, 2009

25 Things that Inspire Me to Make Jewelry:#23 Other Art Jewelers Hurray, finally this fabulous book has arrived on my doorstep!!! Last autumn my good friend and jeweler Sarah Nelson and I took a day trip down to NYC to see the Art Smith jewelry show at the Brooklyn Museum as well as visit the […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #22 Music

June 13, 2009

#22 Music I need music like I need air. My studio is always filled with music of all kinds of music while I work, from Gotan Project, Bessie Smith, Tom Waits, Lupe Fiasco, Johnny Cash, The Cure, Elliot Smith, Alabama 3, Bonobo to Aphex Twin, Asian Dub Foundation, Mogwai, N.W. A. + many many more. […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #21 Music

June 11, 2009

I need music like I need air. My studio is always filled with music of all kinds of music while I work, from Gotan Project, Bessie Smith, Tom Waits, Lupe Fiasco, Johnny Cash, The Cure, Elliot Smith, Alabama 3, Bonobo to Aphex Twin, Asian Dub Foundation, Mogwai, N.W. A. + many many more. Music keeps […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #20 Triangles

June 10, 2009

#20 Triangles I’m not really sure where my obsession with triangles came from but I have always really loved the shape and it’s use in bridge structures. I’ve also had this obsession since I was a teenager with making these triangle links with drinking straws when I’m out at the cafe or pub having a […]

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25 Things That Inspire Me To Create Jewelry #19 Sunsets

June 10, 2009

#19 Sunsets The day is done + when the sun falls gently below the horizon leaving a display of colours across the sky + clouds it’s time for relaxing with friends, dancing with fire + tapping into those corners of my mind where really creative things lie…

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