Lily Pad Necklace

This 14k Lily Pad necklace boasts a beautiful checkerboard cut pink tourmaline and a canary yellow, princess cut sapphire accent. It is strung with sparkly rose quartz to 17.5 inches in length. It has an 18k gold lobster claw clasp. If you are considering purchasing this piece you must see the coordinating Tourmaline Lily Pad earrings.

$625.

Citrine and Jasper Vine Necklace

The focal jasper in this necklace has swirls of tan, cream and gray. It is soft toned so I have strung it with gradient citrine facetted roundels and sterling “vine-like” beads.

$195.

Something New

Orange, round carnelian beads peak through a handmade silver filigree basket, which sits atop a translucent pink and yellowish tourmaline barrel bead. This new pendant is strung on tiny 3mm corn-shaped pearls with round peridot accents. It is strung to 17.75 inches in length with a sterling silver spring ring clasp.

$250.

Blue and Pink Tourmaline Infinity Necklace

The stones in this infinity necklace are exceptional. This piece is old-school for me with the two colored style of stringing. The 6 x 4mm blue tourmaline is amazing.

Love it, Love it, Love it! The pink tourmaline is closer to 7 x 5mm. It is 14k gold, strung with matching tourmaline facetted roundel beads to 16.5 inches in length. If you are pondering the purchase of this necklace, please consider also getting the matching earrings titled, Blue and Pink Tourmaline Earrings.

$895.

Green Tourmaline and Champagne Topaz Infinity

This is another classic Aragona Design. The two-color infinity is tried and true. The beads are green tourmaline and andalusite. It is in a 14k gold setting. The tourmaline is approximately 4.5mm and the champagne topaz is approximately 6mm, including the bezels. It is strung to 16.5 inches in length. The infinity is my signature design!

$695.

Cool Collaboration

For those of you who know me well, it will come as no surprise that I help my opal supplier run his booth for some of the winter trade shows. I love this winter gig for many reasons. One of them is that I get 1 st pick of all the new opals! Another is because I get to smooze with all of the designers who do wholesale only shows-a whole group of great people I never see in my show circles. And the best reason is because I always get to spend my birthday with my best friend Lisa Joy Sachs who lives near the trade shows! We take my new opal booty and spread it all out on her dining room table and have a design frenzy. (Lisa is also a jewelry designer and she makes glass beads. She is the most creative person I know-check out our Open Studio Show in December on the show schedule!) I love to use her handmade glass beads in my designs and in this series of collaboration pieces we discovered that her glass beads look very much like my new opals! So this piece was meant to be. Here is a gorgeous Sachs Design lentil bead with a remarkable pattern and colors similar to my new boulder opal! The pearl in the center is a color enhanced, lavender coin pearl. The construction is a marriage of metals with 22k gold bezel, and 14k gold accents and sterling silver under bezel. The facetted amethysts and iolites are strung on a durable wire to 17.5 inches long with a lobster claw clasp. What a pretty one of a kind piece!

$895.

Amorphic Tourmalines and Hollow Form Bead Necklace

Normally when I design, I sprawl out on the floor with all of my materials and just start combining. Usually, it is the color combinations of the stones that inspire me. This amorphic tourmaline necklace was a different case. When I was in College studying jewelry design, I had a class called hollow form jewelry. I spent a lot of time making hollow beads. They are labor intensive to say the least. When I saw these wonderfully amorphic hollow form silver beads, I got a flash in my head to use them with these tourmalines that mimic their shape. These tourmalines are large and colorful. Most of the interest is in the front of the necklace. The back has a pretty pattern of round tourmalines and silver flowers. It is an unusual design and keeps the necklace from being too heavy. It is strung to 18 inches in length on a durable wire with a soldered spring ring clasp.

$595.

Aquamarine Big Beads with Tourmaline Crystals

This is another piece where I had a plan and had to hunt for the materials to see it to fruition. It is an uncommon way for me to design. The large pebbles in this necklace are all aquamarines! In between, are white fresh water, cultured pearls and gorgeous tourmaline crystals! It is continuously strung to 26.75 inches long on a durable, synthetic string that moves like silk but doesn't stretch, shred, or fray like silk.

$1,400.

Fun Collar

I saw these “Montana opal agate beads” and I just had to work with them! The shapes are so wonderfully organic. I have teamed them with large facetted cherry quartz marquis that have these cool gold and brown stripes inside. This collar is larger in scale than most of my work. The agates each range from ¾” to 1” in length, and the marquis are just under 1” each. The back has 8mm facetted round quartz beads. Interspersed throughout the necklace are Tandru sapphires and 14k gold beads. It is strung to 17” in length on a durable, extremely flexible wire. It has a 14k gold lobster claw clasp.

$295.

Queen’s Necklace in Pinks

The Queen's necklace has weight. This is due to the solid sterling silver stick beads that space the multi-tonal pink tourmalines in this necklace. Incidentally, these stick beads are a finer alloy than sterling silver because they have a higher pure silver content at 97%. There are 23 wonderfully facetted pink tourmalines alternating between long teardrop and baguette cuts. The back of the necklace is all bubblegum pink facetted roundel tourmaline beads. This neckpiece is strung to 18” in length on an extremely flexible wire with a lobster claw clasp.

$895.

Queen’s Necklace in Greens

The Queen’s necklace has weight. This is due to the solid sterling silver stick beads that space the multi-tonal green tourmalines in this necklace perfectly. Incidentally, these stick beads are a finer alloy than sterling silver because they have a higher pure silver content at 97%. There are 19 wonderfully facetted green tourmalines alternating between long teardrop, baguette, and facetted diamond cuts.

The back of this necklace has briolette cut green tourmalines drilled lengthwise so they don’t dangle. It is strung to 16.5 inches on an extremely flexible wire.

$895.