Big Boulder Opal and Tahitian Pearl on Rare Kyanites

I LOVE this new piece. It is a one of a kind luscious statement! The pearl is an aubergine Tahitian pearl teamed with a huge FLASHY boulder opal and strung on all highest quality kyanite. The bezel is solid 22k gold. The unseen under bezel is sterling silver. All of the gold beads are 14k. It is strung on wire to 21.5 inches with an 18k gold lobster claw clasp.

$6,500.

African Sunstone Ring

This beautiful sunstone from Africa has 4 rays. It weighs 7.82 carats. The bezel setting is 22k gold and the shank is 14k gold.

$895.

Dream Catcher

As you can see, this jasper necklace has two faces. One is a deep green with a hint of red in the center; the other is a lighter, speckled green. It is painstakingly strung with tsavorite (genuine green garnet) chip cut stones, sterling silver stick beads and many teeny tiny sterling balls in the back. There is a watermelon tourmaline facetted teardrop briolette on either side of the jasper, which is what makes it remind me of a “dream catcher.” This necklace has a toggle clasp. It is strung to 19” on a durable wire.

$195.

Boulder Opal Wave Necklace

This is an amazing piece. It is all natural boulder opals. Boulder opals are opal silica in the ironstone boulder that it grows in. Opals are amorphic and always grow inside a host. In the case of boulder opals, the host (or matrix) is ironstone. The length of this necklace is 18.75 inches.

$2400.

Square Boulder Baby

This square ¼” x ¼” boulder opal has tons of pink flash. It is delicate in scale-like the infinity size. It is strung to 19.5 inches on fresh water, cultured, rice pearls. The clasp is a sterling silver spring ring.

$245.

Tribal

I believe these beads are called cherry quartz. They are strung on a flexible wire with freshwater, cultured pearls. It is 18.25” long with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$165.

Garden of Flowers

This jasper necklace has a matte jasper focal bead that looks like a pebble you might find on the beach. It is strung with freshwater, cultured; color enhanced pearls and sterling silver daises. The pearls remind me of a field of flowers. I guess I’m ready for spring. The pearls are a different shape that is flat on one side, but domed on the other. Since they spin around I am showing them in the photo how they really lie. This is not a necklace for someone who enjoys uniformity. The owner of this piece is a free spirited “hippy” gal. I’d love it on a young girl. It is strung to 15 1/8” on a durable wire with a soldered sterling spring ring clasp.

$95

Bar Harbor Collection

Coral 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 sea glass reminds me of a branch of coral. You know how in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, all of the undead pirates had barnacles and looked like they merged with the sea, well this funny piece of glass reminds me of how the sea has a way of reclaiming everything. If you’ve ever accidentally dropped something in the ocean, you know what I mean. (My family alone has donated two cell phones and a set of keys.)

This piece has a solid sterling cap and a cluster of pearl and peridot dangles. This cool pendant (2 1/8” x 5/8”) should be worn long, so it is on a 23” sterling figure eight chain. The nice thing about the link is that you could clasp it anywhere you’d like.

$125.

DNA

This is my newest pendant design series…and this one has tourmaline sticks, sterling silver daisies and vermeil (gold over sterling silver) twirlies. It is strung on a flexible, durable wire to 19”. The beads in the stringing consist of sterling silver daisy beads with multi-color, facetted tourmalines interspersed in a random pattern. Though it is random, the sides are perfectly symmetrical! The pendant measures 1 1/16" x 5/8"

 $425.

White Monet Perfume Bottle Necklace

I met artist Karen Bye in Tucson last year. The little dot in the upper 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” with a white background and a green and pink billowy flower pattern. I have strung it with smooth, apatite roundels and pink color-enhanced, freshwater, cultured pearls in an alternating pattern all the way around the neck. It has a vermeil (gold over sterling) daisy and sterling silver daisy accents in the front. This necklace is strung to 19” on a durable wire with a soldered sterling spring ring clasp. The perfume bottle measures 1.25” x 1”.

$325.

Pagoda Jasper Collection- Green Pagoda

This new jasper design has been in my head since Tucson. It is jaspers, silver jack beads and amazonite beads. It is strung to 18 ½” on a flexible, durable wire. The pendant measures 2 3/8" x 1 3/8"

$225.

Sail Boat

Three gorgeous Australian boulder opals make the sails and hull of this lovely little sailboat pendant/enhancer. This piece is a marriage of metals. The bezels are solid 22k gold, the under bezels and the enhancer bail is 14k gold. The piece measures 1 1/4” by 7/8” (including the bail) and is strung on gorgeous white freshwater cultured pearls with a 14k lobster claw clasp.

$2300.

Greece

Intense teal color enhanced, fresh water, cultured pearls, light blue topaz facetted beads, apatites, labradorites and chalcedony create a unique overall look with this jasper focal necklace. It is strung to 20 inches in length on wire with a sterling spring ring clasp.

$165.