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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

New Work

tourmaline rose gold
Fair trade Afghan tourmaline and recycled 14k rose gold ring
{ custom order; sold }

fair trade sapphire
Fair trade Montana sapphire and recycled 18k palladium white gold ring
{ custom order; sold }

fair trade aquamarine
Fair trade aquamarine, recycled 14k yellow gold, and recycled 18k palladium white gold ring
{ custom order; sold }

rose gold sapphire
Fair trade sapphire and recycled 14k rose gold ring
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

New Work

purple sapphire ring
Fair trade sapphire and recycled 14k yellow gold ring
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

ethical ruby ring
Fair trade ruby and recycled 14k yellow gold ring
{ to be listed soon in my Etsy shop }

Sunday, January 22, 2012

New Work


custom wedding rings
Moissanite, Chatham alexandrite, Chatham sapphire, and recycled 18k palladium white gold wedding and engagement rings
{ custom order; sold }

padparadscha sapphire ring
Chatham padparadscha sapphire and recycled 14k white gold wedding band
{ custom order; sold }

silver wedding bands
Recycled sterling silver wedding bands
(The wider band is for sale in my Etsy shop and I can make more of the narrow ones as well upon request.)

moissanite wedding bands
Left: Moissanite and recycled 14k white gold wedding band
Right: Moissanite and recycled 14k palladium white gold wedding band
{ custom order; sold }

rainbow wedding bands
Chatham ruby, sapphire (orange, yellow, and blue), emerald, and recycled palladium sterling silver bands
{ for sale now in my Etsy shop }

New Stones

Limiting myself to working exclusively fair trade stones, no matter how noble my intentions may be, can sometimes make me feel artistically... limited. I see beautiful stones for sale that sing to me with design possibilities, but I won't buy them because I don't know their provenance (or worse yet, I do know and it's not good). So it's especially exciting when I ever-so-occasionally stumble across a new fair trade gemstone vendor, and better still when said new vendor has certain types of stones for sale that I've not had access to in the past. I am happy to say that I recently discovered such a source! Behold... :-)

fair trade sapphire
Fair trade sapphire, 5mm, 0.7 carats

purple sapphire
Fair trade sapphire, 5mm, 0.6 carats
You guys, it's purple!!!

ethical pink sapphire
Fair trade sapphire, 4.5mm, 0.3 carats

fair trade rubyFair trade ruby, 5mm, 0.7 carats

blue spinelFair trade spinel, 5mm, 0.5 carats

At the moment, all are up for grabs for custom orders, but I don't expect that to last for long before I can't resist just doing whatever I want with them. :-)