Impressive 11mm x 9mm bright flawless iolite and intense multicolor 17mm x 10mm boulder opal make up this 30mm x 11mm long pendant. You may not know this, but large flawless iolite is so hard to find right now, and that is why no one is talking about iolite!

They became so hard to get that all talk of them has vanished! It is like what happened to alexandrite, the real June birthstone. Did you know that in the 1920s, and 1930s you could buy alexandrite at the local jewelers as if it were amethyst today. Then it became mined out and the price rose so high that no one even talked about it because only the super rich could afford it (until now because after 76 years they finally found a new alexandrite mine-but I digress.) Well this is what I’ve noticed with iolite. Luckily, I buy large parcels when I find a great deal so I can bring my work to you at better prices. I’m a great gemstone bargain hunter. Then, because I’ve bought more than little old me can use fast enough, I still have them when everyone else says, “iolite? Ha, who has good iolite?!” Well we do right here in this piece! The bezels of this piece are 22k gold, the under bezels are 14k gold. It is all hand formed and fabricated. The beads are juicy, impossible to find tanzanite beads that has also been hoarded in my safe since the early 90s. The icing on the cake are the equally highly prized hot pink spinel accents in the stringing. These are the last hot pink spinels that I have. The length is 19.5”. It is strung on a durable synthetic string that moves like silk but won’t shred, stretch, or fray like silk. You will love the classical, timeless feminine design.

$3600.

Big Statement.

The tourmaline in this quartz grew there naturally. This is one of the few pieces in which I had a vision before I made it . It took quite some time to find just the right tourmaline crystals to string with this beautiful statement rock. Then I had to get it drilled which took over a year and a half because the driller took off to Brazil with my stone, and I had to hunt him down in Tucson last year. Well worth the wait it is now here with citrine accents and 18K gold clasp. It measures 19” long.

$1100.

Ocean Boulder Baby

The opal focal pendant on this piece looks like the ocean with swirls of watery blues. The white freshwater, cultured, very round pearls are great quality with beautiful luster. It is 17” long with a sterling spring ring clasp. This piece is so elegant!

$295.

Boulder Baby

This opal has movement and rhythm in its shape. I would describe it as a scoop. The white freshwater, cultured, very round pearls are great quality with beautiful luster. It is 17” long with a sterling spring ring clasp. Dainty in scale, this piece is so feminine and elegant!

$265.

Boulder Baby with Aquamarines and Iolites

This pretty boulder baby is 18” long and is strung on wire. Im sorry there is no sizing available for this particular piece.

$225.

Iolite Wave Necklace

These are beautiful iolites in a fancy diamond shape briolette cut (with two of them being marquis cut in the back.) The 14k waves and 18k gold flowers give them the finishing touch. It is 17” long, on a durable wire that is actually 21 strands of twisted stainless steel that is then coated with nylon…serious stuff.

You may not know this, but high quality iolite is so hard to find right now, and that is why no one is talking about iolite!

They became so hard to get that all talk of them has vanished! It is like what happened to alexandrite, the real June birthstone. Did you know that in the 1920s, and 1930s you could buy alexandrite at the local jewelers as if it were amethyst today. Then it became mined out and the price rose so high that no one even talked about it because only the super rich could afford it (until now because after 76 years they finally found a new alexandrite mine-but I digress.) Well this is what I’ve noticed with iolite. Let us give this piece a wonderful home. It would also look great layered with any of the wave necklaces if you already have one… I have been wearing two together all summer.

$995.

Black & White Boulder Baby

This ultra-delicate boulder opal has black and white stripes. It is a tiny freeform triangle strung on 2mm round onyx and 1mm quartz crystal beads. This is a tiny piece! It is strung to 17” on a durable fiber that moves like silk but doesn’t stretch, shred or fray like silk. It has a soldered sterling spring ring clasp. It is a very sweet and comfortable piece

$195.

Rainbow Boulder Baby

These teensy tiny 2mm round jasper beads pack a lot of punch in their minuscule way-but that’s ok because so does this (yellow ochre) boulder opal focal bead with intense flash. Though the focal opal measures 16mm x 7mm, this diminutive piece has plenty of personality! It is strung to 16.5 inches in length with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$195.

Navy Boulder Baby

This Boulder opal focal bead really doesn’t have any flash; nonetheless, it is a very cool pebble, handpicked by me for its uniqueness. It is mostly navy and white, so it is strung to 19” long with navy color enhanced side-drilled pearls and freshwater cultured white corn shaped pearls. It has a sterling spring ring clasp. I would describe this necklace as a classic!

$195.

Petite Boulder Opal Tiara Wave Necklace

This piece is feminine and classic! It is 14k and 18k gold and is strung to 16.5 inches in length. Each opal is ultra fiery.

$1200.

Bar Harbor Collection

Geometric

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 pretty sea glass piece is a color I call ice. It is a pastel blue-green and it is a very popular sea glass color! I have teamed it with a matching blue and green baguette cut tourmaline drop. It is strung on blue tourmaline gradient roundels to 17” with a soldered, silver, spring ring clasp.

$295.

Romantic Link Jasper Necklace

The stones in this new link design are rhodolite garnet, iolite, freshwater cultured, peacock color-enhanced pearls and a jasper focal bead. IT also has a pink tourmaline drop accent. It is strung to 16.25” on a durable, flexible wire.

$165.

Greeny with Black Spinel

Boy-oh-boy, it is hard to drill through a piece of sea glass without breaking the piece in two! I have “set” a 2.5mm black spinel in a tiny 14k gold bezel into the sea glass. These tiny bezels fit in through tension and compression but I added a touch of jeweler’s cement for added security. This is truly unique. It is on a 16” sterling silver beaded chain. The measurement of this pendant is 1.5” x 1.5” including the elongated bail. I hope you like this new style.

$89.

Baby Blue Monet Perfume Bottle Necklace

I met artist Karen Bye in Tucson last year. The little dot in the lower right hand edge of this pendant is her signature. She is doing what I always wished I knew how to do. She is making small, wearable perfume bottle pendants. They are just gorgeous. The tops really open and you can actually use them with essential oils or just wear them because they are so pretty. This is her “Monet” in robins egg blue. I have strung it with smooth, round apatites and mauve color-enhanced, freshwater, cultured pearls. It has a vermeil (gold over sterling) daisy and sterling silver daisy accents. This necklace is strung to 19.5” on a durable wire with a soldered sterling spring ring clasp. The perfume bottle measures 1.25” x 7/8”.

$325.

Plum

This necklace has a Jasper focal pendant with Tandru sapphires and garnet briolette accents. Almost pure silver jack beads flank the jasper and it has a sterling spring ring claps. It is 18 inches long.

$165.

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.

Wings

There is a depth to this jasper focal bead that is hard to describe but I will try- by golly! It looks like seeds or sunflowers are “trapped inside this stone from one side (my favorite of the two sides.) The other side is just a bonus of speckled greens so you can wear it either way. It is strung with the best quality, smooth labradorite beads that are graduated in size. Much planning and pairing of size, color and shape went into this stunning necklace.

The labradorites are spaced by a deep teal apatite, and the rest of the necklace is color-enhanced seafoam green pearls, that have an unsurpassed gentle rainbow luster to them. An apatite is sprinkled into the stringing of the pearls at just the right intervals to keep the continuity of the necklace, and the movement of the eye around the neck. It is strung to 16 ¼” on a durable, flexible wire with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$325.

Boulder Opal Necklace with Tourmalines & Kyanites

This is an extremely flashy Boulder opal necklace. It is strung with Blue-green and pink facetted tourmalines, kyanite smooth roundels, and 14k gold accent beads. It is strung to 16.5” on a durable synthetic fiber that moves like silk but doesn’t stretch, shred or fray like silk. It has a 14k gold lobster claw clasp. The opal measures 1” X 3/8”.

$625.

Teal Boulder Baby

This unique 7/8” x ¼” pointy boulder opal focal bead really stands out. It has fantastic teal flash. It is strung with color-enhanced teal seed pearls and white fresh water, cultured pearl accents. The white, freshwater cultured pearls are very round and of great quality with a beautiful luster. It is 18” long with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$265.

Boulder Opal Dangles

These earrings are 14k gold and boulder opals. They have a secura-clip ear wire, which is similar to a lever-back style but actually has a clasp! These would be a great companion pair for the Boulder Opal Wave necklace, or the Boulder Opal 22k and 14k Wave.

$395.

Blue & Blue-Green Tourmaline Bracelet

The name speaks for itself. These blues are rare colors! It is strung with freshwater, cultured seed pearls and a 14k gold clasp.

$1400.

Bitty Baby Boulder Bracelet

Spoil Yourself! These are great, very fiery, natural boulder opals with segments of sterling silver daisies and black, color-enhanced, freshwater, cultured, seed pearls. There is a nice weight to this bracelet. It feels good. It is currently strung to 7 ¼ inches in length.

$495.

Sterling Boulder Baby Wave Bracelet

You work hard, you deserve this! These are fabulous cobalt blue baby boulder opal beads strung in my signature wave design with sterling silver daisies and black seed pearl accents. This is currently 7.5 inches long.

$495.

Sapphire Jack Bracelet

Clusters of sapphires are segmented by almost pure silver jacks in this bracelet. It coordinates with the Sapphire Jack Necklace, which has some of the largest micro-facetted sapphire briolettes I've had.

$695.