Category: jewelry design

• Elle Collection engagement Gemstone jewelry design

  Engagement Season

  It’s getting to be that time of year where everyone spends a lot of time with family and friends, going from party to party and opening lots of wonderful presents. It’s also that fateful time of year when people want to get engaged. I’m not sure what it is, but…

  November 30, 2015
• Antique Diamond engagement jewelry design Loose Stones Spinel Tourmaline wedding

  10 Facts About Me

  Here is a collection of 10 fast facts you probably don’t know, and couldn’t guess about me: I typically do not wear any jewelry. Yeah, I know. My engagement ring is a Stuller setting. I have never posted it to Instagram, and I don’t know that I ever will. I’m originally…

  November 16, 2015
• Culinary Elle Collection jewelry design

  Musings, Mise En Place, Pastry

  Back when I used to be a pastry chef, I struggled with cake decorating quite a bit. I felt like there was often too much empty space to fill up. I think that it’s one of the reasons I loved creating composed dessert plates so much, I could create the…

  November 2, 2015
• Elle Collection Halo jewelry jewelry design My Jewelry Line

  Overthinking

  I have one particular client-friend who will tell you just how much I overthink pieces. She has listened to me, more than once, go on and on and on about how much time I put into designs, and how ridiculous all of the thought I put in before I even…

  October 12, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line Project

  Updates on Jewelry Line

  Sometimes I go into Sunday and I realize that I have no idea what kind of blog to post for Monday. And there are sometimes when I’m super organized and have blog ideas or even whole blog entries that are ready to be posted a month into the future. I…

  September 21, 2015
• Evaluation jewelry design My Jewelry Line Necklace Project Sapphire

  Evaluating a Fancy Colored Sapphire

  Before I get to the topic for today, I wanted to bring up the actual inspiration behind last week’s gallery post, since it was just completed by my co-collaborator, David Klass. The client had come to be a few months ago about something completely unrelated, and we kept talking about her…

  September 14, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line Ring

  The Gallery

  Can we talk about galleries for a minute? So, what is a gallery? The gallery is the part of the ring, when the ring is facing down, that is facing back up at you. It’s behind or underneath a stone, depending on how you want to look at it. Now,…

  September 7, 2015
• jewelry design Loose Stones Mahenge spinel Uncategorized

  Inclusions

  Gas bubbles, feathers, crystals, veils, carbon spots, lily pads, silk, jardin, etc. There are maybe more types of inclusions than there are gemstone varieties! I seem to have spent the last week talking about inclusions with various people. I figured that since I’ve been talking about it so much, I…

  August 31, 2015
• jewelry jewelry design My Jewelry Line Ring Uncategorized

  Imitation vs. Inspiration

  Roughly a year ago, when I first started to get the idea that I might actually design for a living, I got the opportunity to speak with a renowned designer/jeweler. One of the first things I asked when I got the opportunity to ask him questions was what his inspiration…

  June 22, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line

  Metal Color and Flow

  This is sort of a random topic, but because I’ve recently been working on two stones where the metal color has really been dictated by the center stone, I have been wanting to talk about it because I’ve been thinking about it so freaking much! I don’t like to have…

  June 15, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line

  Jewelry Line Updates

  I have been working madly on a variety of jewelry related and non-jewelry related issues, so I feel like many days have gone by where I haven’t been able to devote as much time as I wanted to to the things I really would like to spend my time on.…

  June 1, 2015
• Diamond Gem Blast jewelry jewelry design Ring

  Gem Blast: Fancy Yellow Diamond

  Once upon a time I really wanted a trillion shaped engagement ring. That was back when I was a teenager if I remember correctly. I ended up with a round brilliant that I basically picked out for myself, so obviously teenage dreams of a trillion didn’t exactly happen. But since…

  April 27, 2015