Bar Harbor Collection

Simple Bottle Green

This is a bottle green sea glass set in sterling with a permanent 16” delicate beaded chain.

$125.

14k Citrine Wave Earrings

I love these earrings! This citrine color is so warm and beautiful. I can't stress enough how large and beautiful this pair of citrines are and how hard it is to find such a great match. This is the true briolette cut, the original from the Victorian period. This true briolette cut is hard to find because there are so many more facets which makes it labor-intensive!

This wave style earring is currently available in pink tourmaline, olive tourmaline, celery green tourmaline and almandine garnets that have such a high luster that they look metalic. Also, I have great matched pairs of any color tourmaline and many other stones right now if you have a hunger for these in your special color or birthstone!

$695.

Bar Harbor Collection

Lavender Sea glass

Since opening my showroom in Bar Harbor, I’ve learned that sea glass jewelry is in high demand. I love the stuff, but have intentionally stayed away from it because I used to apprentice with a woman who made it her trademark. At the time, not so many designers were making jewelry with it. We live on the same island. Therefore, I kept my distance from the material for 15 years. Last fall, I went on a field trip visiting galleries on my own Island and throughout Downeast Maine. I quickly realized that there is a lot of sea glass jewelry made in all kinds of styles by many different artists now. The woman I worked with is fully established (wildly successful) and so I feel free to offer you at long last, my Bar Harbor collection.

Did you know it takes the ocean roughly 40 years to make a well-rounded piece of sea glass? Did you know that with all of the recycling we now do, the sea glass is not being replenished? So it’s ironic when you consider that this beautiful, natural bi-product of littering (lets be realistic after-all) could actually be mined out! It is getting harder and harder to find nice sea glass. All of my glass is from Maine or Prince Edward Island in Canada. Our family’s very own Katy Perry (David’s Grammie), writer extraordinaire, found these pieces.

This piece of lavender sea glass is set in sterling silver with a smooth chalcedony briolette dangling from the bottom. It is strung on lavender color-enhanced and white, fresh water, cultured seed pearls. It is 19” long with a spring ring clasp. The whole pendant measures 1 ¾” with the briolette included.

$195.

This pretty piece consists of a red tourmaline central briolette, amethyst teardrop briolettes, funky shaped garnets, facetted amethysts and sterling flower and ball beads. This piece is strung to 18.5 inches on a durable wire and has a sterling spring ring clasp.

$195.

Great on a Tan

The title of this necklace is great on a tan because the jasper is mostly white. It has the feel of a beach pebble but it has been jazzed up with round apatites, facetted white zircon (a natural gemstone) and white topaz for sparkle.

$195.

Boulder Baby Trio.

These are three of the finest baby boulders that I have. There is lots of teal, green, and blue fire. It has 14k heavy walled gold beads alternating between the opals. This is a petite piece on a 16” sterling silver wire with a spring ring clasp.

$295.

Bar Harbor Collection

Bottle Green with Chrome Diopside

Since opening my showroom in Bar Harbor, I’ve learned that sea glass jewelry is in high demand. I love the stuff, but have intentionally stayed away from it because I used to apprentice with a woman who made it her trademark. At the time, not so many designers were making jewelry with it. We live on the same island. Therefore, I kept my distance from the material for 15 years. Last fall, I went on a field trip visiting galleries on my own Island and throughout Downeast Maine. I quickly realized that there is a lot of sea glass jewelry made in all kinds of styles by many different artists now. The woman I worked with is fully established (wildly successful) and so I feel free to offer you at long last, my Bar Harbor collection.

Did you know it takes the ocean roughly 40 years to make a well-rounded piece of sea glass? Did you know that with all of the recycling we now do, the sea glass is not being replenished? So it’s ironic when you consider that this beautiful, natural bi-product of littering (lets be realistic after-all) could actually be mined out! It is getting harder and harder to find nice sea glass. All of my glass is from Maine or Prince Edward Island in Canada. Our family’s very own Katy Perry (David’s Grammie), writer extraordinaire, found these pieces.

This bottle green piece is set in silver with a chrome diopside briolette drop. It is permanently on a simple beaded chain that is 16.5” long. The pendant measures 1 1/4'” with the briolette included.

$125.

Bar Harbor Collection

Must Be Rare

Since opening my showroom in Bar Harbor, I’ve learned that sea glass jewelry is in high demand. I love the stuff, but have intentionally stayed away from it because I used to apprentice with a woman who made it her trademark. At the time, not so many designers were making jewelry with it. We live on the same island. Therefore, I kept my distance from the material for 15 years. Last fall, I went on a field trip visiting galleries on my own Island and throughout Downeast Maine. I quickly realized that there is a lot of sea glass jewelry made in all kinds of styles by many different artists now. The woman I worked with is fully established (wildly successful) and so I feel free to offer you at long last, my Bar Harbor collection.

Did you know it takes the ocean roughly 40 years to make a well-rounded piece of sea glass? Did you know that with all of the recycling we now do, the sea glass is not being replenished? So it’s ironic when you consider that this beautiful, natural bi-product of littering (lets be realistic after-all) could actually be mined out! It is getting harder and harder to find nice sea glass. All of my glass is from Maine or Prince Edward Island in Canada. Our family’s very own Katy Perry (David’s Grammie), writer extraordinaire, found these pieces.

I’ve never seen this color before in a sea glass-even growing up on the Jersey Shore. My hunch is that it is a piece of depression or Vaseline glass but I really don’t know that much about that. It is celery green and seems to glow. It is an amazing three-dimensional shape with a flat back and a mountain ridge, in a curvature down the center. I suppose it could have been left in the ocean for another 20 years but I wasn’t going to give it up by giving it back in the sea. The best of pieces, I have accented it with a watermelon tourmaline facetted briolette. It is permanently on a lacy, sterling, figure-eight chain measuring just about 17”.

$245.

Matte Jasper in Lavender

I've given this jasper focal bead a matte finish. It is strung to 16 inches with lavender, natural color, freshwater, cultured pearls, and Rose D' France (Light color) amethyst. It has almost pure silver jack beads flanking the pendant. It is strung on a durable (coated stainless steel) wire with a sterling clasp. The pearls on this piece are exceptional!

$195.

Winter

This feminine necklace has a blue and golden jasper focal bead with iolite and citrine accents. It is strung to 18 inches with lavender color enhanced, freshwater cultured pearls and Rose d' France amethyst facetted beads. The clasp is a sterling silver spring ring.

$145.

Rainbow Andamooka Opal

One place in the world where limestone matrix opal occurs, is in a small area of South Australia called Andamooka. For this reason, this material is called Andamooka matrix opal. When it is treated, it is known as Andamooka treated matrix opal and the focal bead in this Rainbow piece is one of these treated opals.

Treatment of the limestone matrix involves a fairly simple process of simmering the stones in a very rich solution of sugar in water, followed by a period of simmering in a bath of very concentrated sulfuric acid. The action is that the sugar penetrates into the limestone matrix and then the acid 'cooks' it turning the white sugar behind and around the 'pockets' of opal, into a black carbon. The result is that the blackened matrix surrounding the pockets of opal, does not diffract light, and the colors of the opal beam through. The quality of the finished stone is gauged by the brilliance of the fire and the richness and range of the colors. Apparently, this treatment is no harder than making dinner. This is a cute little wearable piece strung on 2mm agate beads. It is strung to16” long with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$95.

Teal and Purple Jasper Necklace.

The jasper on this necklace looks like a far away land, maybe a forest with beams of light streaming through trees. It has a large amethyst accent. It is strung with facetted blue green tourmalines and soft mauve and sea foam fresh water, cultured, colored-enhanced pearls. It is stung to 16” long on a durable wire.

$165.

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.

Matte Jasper in Pink

I've given this jasper focal bead a matte finish. It is strung to 17.5 inches with pink freshwater, cultured pearls, and Rose D' France (Light color) amethyst. It has almost pure silver jack beads flanking the pendant. It is strung on a durable (coated stainless steel) wire with a sterling clasp.

$165.

The real difference is that to make a freshwater cultured pearl, a mussel is seeded with a bead, but to make a cultured pearl-an oyster is seeded with a bead! The distinction has nothing to do with the water, fresh water just sounds more romantic. The clasp is sterling silver with 14k gold accent beads. It is signed.

$75.

Fancy Amethyst Briolette Jack Necklace

This amethyst briolette is enormous! I have never seen anything like it! The size of the briolette is 1.5 INCHES x .75 INCHES.Yes I said INCHES, not millimeters or centimeters but INCHES! It is the larges briolette I've ever seen! The length of the necklace is 18 inches long. There is a great weight to this piece and I don't believe the stone can be replaced once it is sold. The silver beads are almost pure silver. 

$1800.
Pricey but worth it as this look is stunning!

Change of Seasons; Fall/Winter

This mottled Jasper focal bead is strung with color enhanced and white fresh water, cultured pearls. It is strung to 17.5 inches on wire with a soldered sterling spring ring clasp.

$95.

Watermelon Tourmaline Paddle Necklace

This necklace has lots of carats of gorgeous Brazilian tourmalines. It is strung to 19.25 inches with smooth, colorful green and pink tourmaline drops. The rest of the necklace is 14k gold waves and solid 18k gold flower beads.

$1600.

Moss

This jasper looks like it's a planet. The pattern is so wild that I have strung it very simply with color enhanced olive and lime freshwater, cultured pearls. It is strung to 18 inches in length on a durable wire with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$95.

Planet

So unique! Materials are jasper, black tourmaline round beads, natural color pink and white freshwater cultured pearls, and citrines. This necklace is strung to 17.75 inches in length on a durable wire with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$145.

Subtle

I really like this one. The bluish tan jasper focal is strung with green and yellow aquamarines and andalusites. There is an interesting sterling flower and ball bead exchange that adds a dressy feel to a subtle piece. It is strung to 17 inches in length on wire with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$195.

Fall

This jasper necklace has citrine, and peach moonstone accents. It is strung with mauve color enhanced, freshwater, cultured corn shape pearls. It has an 18k gold lobster claw clasp and is 19 inches long.

$245.

Earthy Jasper

This casual jasper necklace with tiny pearl accents is perfect for someone who wears earth tones. It is strung on a durable synthetic fiber to 19.5 inches in length with a soldered sterling spring ring clasp.

$145.