What a joy this collection has been to create. Months of summery turquoise, warm carnelian, and sparkling hessonite garnet covering my bench, to the point where I could scarcely move. September blue skies, warm brass asters, and swallows in every corner.
This is the first turquoise collection in over eight years. I spent that time slowly collecting turquoise gemstones one stone at a time; hoarding my pile of robins egg blue like a dragon.
Until now, that is. I have sung the stones into metal, set amongst soaring birds and glimmering suns, blooming asters and warm brass accents.
Afield at Dusk
Sizes available: US 5 – 12
Set atop a hammered rectangle bands
Price: $186
A walk afield at dusk, a turquoise path and golden hour blooms.
And a few deep orange petals strewn around the borders.
Each ring a smooth rectangle turquoise at the center, framed by two warm brass asters and two orange kyanite gemstone petals.
Gorgeous colors set amongst deep autumn shadows.
Tumbling Mirth Earrings
Suspended from sterling silver earwires.
The earrings measure about 4″ from the top
of
the earwire to the bottom of the lowest chain.
Price: $189 – $210 per pair
” Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air …. “
– J. Gillespie Magee
Earrings made of swallow flight and sun-drenched expanses, worn as a wish to step into the air as burden-less as a swallow.
These lightweight earrings are going to be listed as Made to Your Order offerings, in either jewelers’s red brass or sterling silver.
Tucked into the wings and tail feathers of the swallows are warm hessonite garnets, like berries plucked from the vine, and each sky blue turquoise.
And trailing behind are tiny little flowers and box chain for movement and a bit of whimsy.
Wind Flower Rings
Sizes available:
6, 6.5, 7, 7, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5,
8.75, 9, 9.5, 10.25, 10.5,
Sizes are as read on a US mandrel
and fit true to size.
Price: $123
Endless climbs and flowers on the wind.
Sweet and small, simple yet ornate.
Turquoise rings for any day, for any season.
These rings are made with turquoise gemstones that are quite varied, some are smooth and deep blue, others are faceted with dark black spiderwebbing.
The rings have been set atop ornate flower half-round bands for comfort.
Then they have been oxidized and polished to bring out the highlights.
Aster Ring
Made to order only, and there will only be
a limited number of spots available.
Sizes available: US 5 – 12
Price: $85 – $110
Here is a bouquet of brass daisies for you to adorn your hands with eternal flowers.
They will be offered in three different sizes (small, medium, large) and with three different centers (textured sterling silver, round turquoise, oval hessonite garnet).
Choose the size and gemstone that sings to your summer soul.
Set atop a textured sterling silver rectangle bands.
Summer Muse Earrings
Made to order only, and there will only be
a limited number of spots available.
The earrings measure 2.75″ from the top
of the stud to the bottom of the earring.
Price: $167
Earrings made of the heights of summer: glittering sunshine and birds at their zenith.
These earrings are made from beautiful turquoise stud earrings, hanging below which are soaring sterling silver swallows, glowing carnelian gemstoes, and glittering brass dangles.
And on the backs of each of the earrings is a shimmering brass sun to be suspended behind the earlobe so that it outlines the swallow.
The hammered sun is optional though, and can be left off if you’d like to wear them without.
Summer Gathering Necklace
There will be 14 necklaces available.
Suspended from a sterling silver chain,
adjustable from 17 – 20″.
Price: $149 – $168
In this necklace, I’ve gathered up a bit of summertime and spilled them into a necklace for you.
Bluebird skies and warm yellow flowers, the deep shadows late summer and the richness of turning leaves.
These necklaces all feature a large focal turquoise gemstone, all very different in cut, color, shape, and matrix.
As unique as it’s wearer.
Below each turquoise is a single, warm brass flower.
And to either side of the flower is a faceted hessonite garnet.
As well as a tiny sterling silver pebble.
The backs have been very lightly textured with a wildflower print, like the echo of summer scarcely contained.
Summer Relic Ring
Made to order only, and there will only
be a limited number of spots available.
Sizes available: US 5 – 12
Price: $104 – $119
Like the warmth of summer alchemized into ancient rings to wear upon the hands.
Soft brass rings textured and aged to look like relics, the rings are offered in soft yellow hessonite gemstones, rich orange hessonite gemstones, or without a stone.
This brass ring will have a a layer of sterling silver inside the ring to help mitigate discoloration of the skin, as brass contains copper which reacts with moisture and can tarnish.
But be sure to regularly clean your jewelry to also help slow discoloration.
The stones for these rings will be randomly selected, because I have a handful of oval hessonite garnets in a similar cut and color as the sample rings.
Late Walk Necklace
Measures about 2″ from the top
of the pendant to the bottom.
Suspended from a sterling silver chain,
adjustable from 17 – 20″
Price: $145
A necklace made for late walks in a garden, swallows swooping from above and flowers set amongst the deep shadows.
A medallion necklace with a single coneflower growing out of a turquoise gemstone, each one unique.
Outlining the flower and turquoise gemstone is a hammered branch border.
On the backs of the pendants are swooping swallow silhouettes.
As though they are flying out of barns and from the tops of trees to swoop through the dusk air.
Some of the birds and flowers are sterling silver and others are made of jewelers brass.
Vantage Point Ring
Sizes available:
5, 6, 6.25, 6.5, 7, 7, 7.5, 7.5,
7.75, 8, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.25, 10, 11
Sizes are as read on a US mandrel
and fit true to size.
Price: $142
The endless blues of a mountain-top vantage point, soft blue skies stretching off to the horizon.
These rings are made with turquoise gemstones that are quite varied.
There are rectangles and ovals and freeform stones, some that are light blue and others that are dark green.
Some with silky uniform coloring and others with fascinating matrices.
Rings set amidst beaded circlets and a smooth ridge encircling it all.
The rings have been set atop rectangle bands.
Then they have been oxidized and polished to bring out the highlights.
Midsummer Talisman Ring
Sizes available: US 5 – 12
Made to order only, and there will only be a limited number of spots available.
Price: $124 – $134
A talisman for eternal summer. Simple, everyday rings to fit snug against the finger.
Each ring features a carefully sawn coneflower.
Set atop a rectangle band for stability. The edges of the band and ring top have been hammered to make them look like weathered relics.
This brass ring will have a a layer of sterling silver inside the ring to help mitigate discoloration of the skin, as brass contains copper which reacts with moisture and can tarnish.
But be sure to regularly clean your jewelry to also help slow discoloration.
Summer Relic Earrings
Made to order only, and there will only
be a limited number of spots available.
Price: $125
Like the warmth of summer alchemized into ancient earrings.
Soft brass teardrops textured and aged to look like relics, the earrings are offered in soft yellow hessonite gemstones or rich orange hessonite gemstones.
Suspended from sterling silver earwires.
The earrings measure 1.25″ from the top of the earwire to the bottom of the earring.
♡ The stones for these earrings will be randomly selected, because I have a handful of oval hessonite garnets in a similar cut and color as the sample earrings.
Important Note!
Keep in mind that red brass is a warm, earthy metal, and though I wax all my jewelry to slow tarnishing, the brass will patina and darken over time, especially in humid locales. You can give it a brush with your usual jewelry polish if you’d like to bring it back to warm glowing gold. Some people also polish/brush their brass jewelry and then coat it with matte clear acrylic, such as clear nail polish, to seal their brass jewelry. If you do this, let me know how it goes!
And that’s everything! Everything will arrive in the shop at the same time tomorrow. Keep in mind that there are a very limited number of Made to Order spots available, as I have lots of collections upcoming this autumn,
This collection will soar into the shop on
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Click here for a direct link to where they will appear.
And remember, refresh your page often once the clock strikes 7:00 PM EST, until they all appear.