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Surprise Tidal Pool Collection: Tue, May 27, 7pm EST

May 26, 2025 ·

A surprise collection for all you saltwater mermaids!

Made from lodolite, the gemstone of my north Atlantic dreams.

I will share about the collection on Instagram and Facebook once it has already landed in the shop, but you as a newsletter subscriber will have advance notice and hopefully be able to scoop one of these pieces out of this Maine tidal pool before everyone else!


Sea Tangle Ring

Sizes available:
7 | 7.25 | 7.25 | 7.75 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9 | 9.75 | 10 | 10 | 11
Set atop 3mm half-round bands

True to size.
Price: $109

The previous Tidal Pool offering featured primarily this lodolite ring design.

So I decided to only make a small handful of these so that anyone who missed them last time could perhaps catch one.

This ring features a beautiful garden quartz set in a pronged gemstone that looks like tufts of seagrass waving in the sun. To either side of the stone are little sterling beach stones. 


Barnacled Tidal Pool Necklace

There will be 35 necklaces available.
Suspended from chains adjustable 17″ – 20″

There will be two size pendants available,
a smaller size (around 16-18mm) and a larger size (around 21-25mm).

Each necklace will list the pendant size, as well as feature
a picture of the each pendant next to an American quarter for size reference.

Price: $116 – $137

Each of these necklaces is made from a stunning natural, lodolite quartz gemstone, each entirely unique.

Some have beautifully defined inclusions that look just like twirling coral reefs reaching up to the water’s surface.

Others look like a a bit of the ocean floor, sandy and speckled with sparkling sand.

Around each gemstone, I have delicately placed little silver barnacles that I have hand-forged from molten silver. 

Just like the walls of a tide pool.

They look like tiny treasures pulled from the ocean, antiqued and brushed, beautiful and organic.


Tidal Pool Ring

Sizes available:
5 | 5 | 6 | 6.25 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
7.25 | 7.25 | 7.75 | 8 | 8 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8.25 |
8.5 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.75 | 8.75 | 8.75 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9.25 |
10 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 11.25 | 11.5
Set atop 3mm half-round bands

True to size.
Price: $118

Lodolite is a variety of quartz with inclusions of chlorite, iron and calcite.

These minerals can be seen as plumes in the colorless stone with green, pink, yellow, brown, white and red.

It is often called garden quartz or scenic quartz because it looks like a mossy covered miniature garden.

Lodolite, the stone of a thousand variations.

Some have soft plumes of fine grain inclusions, like sand swirled up by a wave.

Others have beautiful, intricate pillars climbing through the stone, like coral reefs at the bottom of a clear pool.

And others, and black or golden rutiles cutting through the clear stone, like the spines of tiny urchins.


And that’s everything, all you merfolk and beach-combers!

Tiny worlds held in stone, to wear upon the hand or around the neck. Tiny weightless sea tangles and swirling stone corals. When I look into them, I feel convinced a tiny seahorse is going to float out from behind the plume inclusions.

This collection will float into the SHOPIFY shop on
TUESDAY, MAY 27th 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.

   

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Today I will be combining orders, refunding shippi Today I will be combining orders, refunding shipping overages, and responding to messages. Pieces continue to float out of the shop, and if you purchase an additional piece I will try my best to continue to combine orders if the first purchases aren't in the mail already! 🩵🌙🦋
Thank you from the top of my heart to the tips of Thank you from the top of my heart to the tips of my toes to everyone who stopped by last night's release!

Sooo many familiar names fluttering through the shop catching their butterflies. And so many new names as well. Welcome! 

I love imaging the little collections you've crested for yourselves over the years. Deep amethyst and prehnite rutiles, skittering spiders and bare tree ravens. I bet you've collected the loveliest sets. 🥰
🦋 The “On Noiseless Wing” Collection is in 🦋 The “On Noiseless Wing” Collection is in the shop, sweet summer souls! You can find a direct link on my profile or in my stories. 🦋
Oh! I forgot to let you know here that the blog pr Oh! I forgot to let you know here that the blog preview is up. So it you want to see additional photos, ring sizes, prices, measurements, and inspiration, pop on over there!
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🌼 “ON NOISELESS WING” Collection Release: TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. EST 🌼
Montana agate, hessonite garnet, and a veritable f Montana agate, hessonite garnet, and a veritable flutter of butterflies passing on a summer's day. 

🌼 “ON NOISELESS WING” Collection Release: SUNDAY, JULY 13th at 7:00 p.m. EST 🌼
Tomorrow, tomorrow, all you painted ladies and sum Tomorrow, tomorrow, all you painted ladies and summertime souls! 🦋🤍☀️
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🌼 “ON NOISELESS WING” Collection Release: TOMORROW, JULY 13th at 7:00 p.m. EST 🌼
The soft swirling browns of a pine elfin wing, and The soft swirling browns of a pine elfin wing, and the constant flutter of a red garnet. 
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🌼 “ON NOISELESS WING” Collection Release: SUNDAY, JULY 13th at 7:00 p.m. EST 🌼
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me th “Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” 
– Henry James
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🌼 “ON NOISELESS WING” Collection Release: SUNDAY, JULY 13th at 7:00 p.m. EST 🌼
🦋 Lilting Blues Earrings 🦋 When I think of 🦋 Lilting Blues Earrings 🦋

When I think of blue butterflies, I think of Vladmir Nabokov, who also lived in Ithaca, New York for a spell, as we did. 

He was an avid amateur lepidopterist, and even discovered and named a few species himself, particularly common blue butterflies. 

There is still a collection of the butterflies he caught and studied at Cornell. We were able to peek at them once a year when Cornell would dust off the archives and bring them out for people to see. 

And so, I named these earrings after those lilting common blues, soft as a summer morning and twice as beautiful. 
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