Tag: design
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Custom Red Burmese Spinel Halo Ring
I’ve been incredibly busy, to say the least! I actually took my first day off in three weeks renovating/decorating/etc the other day to exclusively work on jewelry stuff. I had been sorely missing it and really had a stack of things to get back on – gemstone photography, rough jewelry…
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What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name? I get a lot of questions about why I name jewelry what I do, so I thought I should explain a bit more as to how I came to the defining theme in the names of my collection. Vivant – Vivacious I feel like so many…
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Building a Gemstone Collection
Over the past several years I have built a wonderful collection of jewels with a client of mine. She started out pretty slowly, but about 5 years later, through a lot of time, trial and error and wading through a pool of contacts, she has managed to build one of…
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Miscellaneous Updates
Just a quick update this week, New Years is coming up soon (where did this year go?), and getting my new office/studio together is taking up way more time than I planned on. My wonderful Angie Crabtree “Elle” print was finally framed, and it’s waiting for it’s new spot to be…
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Original Find Mahenge Spinel
I mentioned in last week’s blog post that I had wanted to post an evaluation of this stone in it’s place, and had to scramble to post something else instead. Which ended up being great because it kind of leads into this post, because it also has to do with…
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Choosing a Jewelry Designer
Well I’ve talked a lot about my own design philosophy as well as my style and over here on my Atelier page, I talk a bit about my design process. But what I haven’t really talked about is how important it is to really make sure that the designer you’ve…
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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…
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Eye Candy, Updates and Gray Spinels
It has been a long, crazy week. I spent a lot of it photographing and posting 3 ring settings (Aurore, Exaltée, and Feuilles Dorées) as well as my first necklace, Vivant. I have one band that is super close to going into production, and a couple other bands that need to…
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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…
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A Year in Review
Happy first birthday to The Gemstone Project! Lets see, the past year has been chock full of wonderful craziness. August 2014 The first month started out with a lot of posts about various gemstones, including a colorless garnet, and gray spinel. It included an unheated Umba color shifting sapphire in…
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