Pearls - Pastels - Mmmmm - Summertime

I have been so fortunate to find a pearl vendor in Hong Kong...the pearls are gorgeous and I love creating beautiful summertime necklaces...so romantic and light!

May - Brian's Birthday

For Brian's birthday, we headed to the Mississippi for a long weekend of fishing....Poopy's for dinner of course and Gary at the L & M delivered me in style to the Marina! Here is another of his vehicles...can't wait to see more on our next trip!

LovePrint Jewelry

To update you on the LOVEPRINTS here is my newest design for my hair stylist MYKIL!!!!!!!!!!!!! First I incorporated two fingerprints..2 month old Rylee and 9 year old Caid...along with two white sapphires. Mykil wanted this elongated contemporary look........
HERE I AM WITH ZED
His MOM.....Theresa owns Vanaseys at Conover Square....
We are imprinting his fingerprint onto PMC silver...from there I take it back to my studio and create a one of a kind pendant for his mom...of course with his ruby birthstone and this time his name embedded onto the front design...See the flower going up the left hand side...and the middle of the flower is a RUBY...and among the garden at the bottom is his name............the backside of course has his name and birthday!

ALASKA!!!

KIM IN JUNEAU
What a way to start the month of May...Our eldest son Joshua graduated from the University of Alaska Juneau with a degree in Marine Biology....It was so incredible to see his world of mountains, climbing, hiking, kayaking, nature at it's finest.....he has great friends and has made a great life for himself....oh gosh....am I gushing or what...needless to say....who knows where he will end up after he finishes his Masters!!!
and wimpy me actually went kayaking...the water was all of 39 degrees!!!!!!!!! Wahoo

I am so inspired and have countless drawings for new jewelry sculptures!

A Feature!

Here is a copy of the page from ETC MAGAZINE>
They featured my jewelry...(middle of page) in their April Issue!

Jordan & Jewelry

Another trip to Sioux Falls -this time I brought along one of my glass cabinets from Dragonfly Gallery for Laurel to showcase my jewelry in the new Art Gallery portion of Food and Fermentations! That evening we had dinner and time to "catch up" with Pat & Craig Lloyd

Sunday was just amazing....Jordan had his CELLO recital with Dr Karren Melik-Stepanov at Augustana. He has been working on the Haydn piece all year. We were in tears....what an amazing day and Doug and Laurel were able to share it with us!

The Augustana Orchestra had their concert Monday evening and we headed home Tuesday...a long drive...but oh so worth it!

Creating Love Prints

Here I am at Vanaseys with Theresa's son Zed. We are making a Love Print...a beautiful pendant using his little fingerprint. I inscribed his name and added his Ruby birthstone!