Modern Venetian glass beads, blown and carved, found in Venice on our 2013 trip.  I set them as earrings with high karat gold and black spinel.

Venetian glass beads with high karat gold

From Venice, found on our 2013 trip, these wonderful canotti beads made in the '40's and '50's.  I strung them with high karat gold, gemstone beads and large fresh water pearls.

Just set these champagne quartz earrings with a precious little geode pair from Jalisco, Mexico.  One of the larger pair I think I will set with black diamonds on the ear.  Can you imagine finding these geodes yourself?

Roman intaglio carnelian 18k earrings

These lovely intaglio carnelian earrings I bought with Rudy on our first trip to Florence, Italy in 1989!  I had always wanted a necklace to wear with them:  the re-cut and re-polished disk beads are from the 1950's African Trade and repurposed by our German friends Petra and Dietmar.  I strung them with 18k for my perfect combination.

Venetian glass chevrons made in the 1960's with Afghanistan jade and carnelian beads.  Oh, and California beach glass with a sterling silver starfish!

Chaos

Larry would name this necklace "Chaos" which sounds good to me.  I found handmade beads in my stash that I had made more than 15 years ago and added gemstones from here and there.  Chaotic!

Sterling silver shell beads...maybe I will keep these?

Venetian Glass beads from 1950's strung with 18k; these sold at Christmas, 2012

Puerto Rican Petroglyph pendants

Making a turtle pendant for my friend Jaime and I got carried away!  Love my Bonnie Doon Press!

Rudy is working on coin rings and a new branched cross!  First he does the wax...

Two horn cuffs and lots of things sitting around my workbench!  An undersea treasure; making the second one tonight

Beautiful pink tourmaline beads with rocks from the Baltic Sea!  Mixed with 18k and 14k

More assemblages using chrysocolla, abalone, lapis, sterling and 14k

June 5, 2012

Found these on my workbench, reminds me of a recent trip to the woods and, guess what?  That shell is a replica of a purple pectin from Okinawa!

Finished!

May 9th
Working on these lime green beauties, peridot, lemon chrysoprase and shell set in sterling silver:

Rudy's workbench has choices for coin rings:

New stuff

What’s on my workbench:  Working on lime leaf earrings for my friend Susan Helmich

Doing more stones and pearls from my class in SF with Michael Boyd

The ones I finished from the class were lots of fun; learned to drill with diamond bits and polish with diamond powder.  Beach glass furnished by a classmate from Venice Beach, CA.  I also finished a turquoise bead with overlay of mother of pearl and coral

Production pieces:  handmade Viking butter knives finally getting polished and Rudy’s stix too.