Custom: Cicada

welcome to the plague of locusts,
well one locust anyway.
this Goldmakers custom was made out of sterling silver with a banded malachite thorax, ruby eyes, and moving wings on rivits.

He was comissioned by a Mom for her insect loving daughter.
I can almost hear him humming.
-B

WRAPPING UP THE NEW YEAR!

Well Its been another great season with beautiful memories.  We are so glad that even with the internet shopping, the temptation of new technology, and a grueling recession, people still enjoy something as simple, beautiful, and refreshingly low-tech as jewelry and baubles.

Many thanks for a beautiful year! 

and thanks to Lena for the gorgeous images!

Photography by Carolina Rodriguez

FRANKENBABY COMES ALIVE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

AUTUMN TWENTY ELEVEN

Photography: Ann-Katrin Gunilla

STARRING

Carolina as the Evil DR. Rodriguez

Ariel as FRANKENBABY

FALL PARTY!

Photos by Ann Katrin Gunilla

Autumn decor

orchids, luna moths, and beautiful baubles

new earrings from Joli look like candy fruit on her handmade ming tree. 

enamels and vintage reproduction from La Vie Parisienne

photos: Ann Katrin Gunilla

Wendy Mink: briolette Jewelry

Wendy Mink is a designer based in
NYC, where she has her own shop.
My favorites are the turquoise drops.

COLLABORATION: Margaret's ring

Meet Margaret.
Shes Beautiful, Fiesty, Fabulous, and she has found herself a Man!



Margaret and I spent months deliberating on what would be the perfect ring for her, and the structure changed many times.  When the design was finally ironed out, it was to be a wide graphic band with flowers and vines sliced out, accented by gypsy set diamonds. Margaret's inspiration was a camilla cut out band from Chanel, but we improved it.  Making a ring like this is difficult, and we had to send off to our friends in Utah to custom form a special mold  with all the correct cut aways. The pattern we agreed on mimics flowers and vines, but their forms register a bit like little clouds. the design is entirely random, and every which way the ring rotates creates a different scene.

In the end, the ring was completed not 24 hours before Margaret got hitched! 

When they arrived for the reception, It was in a beautiful ballooned tut-tut! So pretty!
It was such an honour to be part of this event.
Yay! i love love, dont you?
-B
ring photos: Ann-Katrin
text/iphone pix: Bernadette