Category: Jewelry

  • Pin and pendant

    I made this for a gift in late summer – I just realized I hadn’t posted it! The center is a vintage West German glass cab, and those are freshwater pearls around it. I used a convertible finding that makes it wearable as a pin or pendant; definitely best on a heavier chain/cord. It was…

  • Pearl herringbone pendant

    Here’s a small gift I made for someone. Literally small – the pendant is just over 1″ in length. Freshwater pearls, crystals, and seeds in a herringbone frame. I have it on embroidery floss to be used as an ornament, but I can very much see it worn as jewelry.

  • Conch earrings

    When I am on vacation, I tend to buy jewelry. When I was in Florida a few years ago, I contemplated buying a piece of conch jewelery. It is a beautiful true pink, not a color usually found in glass without surface dyeing, which can be impermanent. I didn’t buy any conch jewelry then, so…

  • Beer necklace, ready for beer…

    This Thursday, November 14th, the American Craft Council Library Salon is going to be hosting Fulton Brewing Company and Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts in “An Evening of Craft Brewing and Glassmaking.” Members of Fulton will be telling their craft beer story, and what goes into making an excellent craft beer and the future…

  • Beer necklace! (component stage)

    There is a story in this: one of my jobs is working in the American Craft Council Library, which is in the Grain Belt Brewery building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Grain Belt beer was first brewed in 1893, and it was made in the Minneapolis building until 1976. It is still being made, now by August…