In MY MOTHER'S HOUSE, A Memoir, I describe how I began to make jewelry.
Since I began, my jewelry has been carried by the Lynn Donnager Collection in Beverly Hills, M. Cole in Century City and Santa Monica, the three Harari stores from Beverly Hills to Santa Monica, the Craft and Folk Art Museum Gift Store in Los Angeles, Freehand in West Hollywood and elsewhere.
Unless otherwise stated, my earrings are one of a kind. All the silver is sterling silver. Much of it is dark. I have "antiqued" it, that is, I've dipped it in a solution that oxidizes the silver to make it look antique.
The gold-colored metal is all gold-filled or vermeil (sterling silver double-coated in 22K gold). I hope you enjoy looking at these pieces. I will have the shopping carts and prices up shortly. And of course I will continue to add pieces.
If you are interested in any of the pieces that do not yet have a price or shopping cart, or if you have any questions, please email me.
The top bead is a faceted carnelian rondelle, then come two rubies, and hanging at the bottom are yellow sapphires. This pair of earrings are about one-third the size as the photo shows.
The top beads are ruby squares. I thought that pink sapphires would go well with them and that the diamond shape would complement the square. These beads are about one-quarter smaller than in the picture.
I got these wonderful antique handmade white and orange Chinese beads from an old woman who, in her youth, traveled to China to purchase such exotic treasures... But she told me she thought she might also have bought these years ago in Chinatown. Anyway, the milky yellow and clear orange beads dangling on the bottom are both Mexican fire opals. The antique beads are about 10 mm. The fire opals are about 3 mm.
Here faceted ruby rondelles sit on the top of the earrings. Hanging on the bottom of the earrings are a kind of brandy-colored citrines. The actual earrings are about a half the size as in this photo.
Both beads are aquamarine. The top ones are barrel-shaped, the bottom are faceted rondelles. Again, the picture is about twice the size of the actual earrings.
The cube-shaped green beads are turquoise from a mine that is now closed. The first time I saw beads from this mine, I could only afford half a strand. Then I found these and was able to get a few more; I grabbed them!.The beads on the bottom are faceted ruby rondelles. The actual size of the earrings is about a third smaller than in the picture.
I really enjoy these faces although I can't actually tell you if they are porcelain or ceramic. Above them are sterling silver flowers to add joy, and dancing beneath are sterling silver shapes which one could imagine as bells. Sort of. The earrings are about a third smaller than in the picture
Most of the earrings I make are symmetrical, that is, they match. But a friend inspired me to try my hand at asymmetrical earrings - those which do not match yet somehow the two halves of the pair seem to go together. The left earrings is made of Venetian glass on the top (sprayed with real gold), then a small round mother-of-pearl bead, and at the bottom of the gold-filled chain, two faceted ruby rondelles. On the right side, a vermeil beadcap that looks like a flower holds a large ruby; on the bottom hangs a vintage, hand-carved, mother-of-pearl fan.
The top faceted rondelles here are Mexican fire opals. The gray, larger, faceted rondelles beneath the vermeil beads are sapphires. In the actual earrings, the top beads are about three mm.across and the bottom is about four mm.
All four of these round beads are amber. They are about half or one-third the size of those in the picture.
The top beads are jade, 12 or 14 mm. They are kind of heavy, but the length of the gold filled chains and the and gold fill - plus the emerald chips on the bottom - gives these earrings an elegance. You could probably wear them for three or four hours without a problem. The ear wires are handmade (by me).
The tops of these earrings are faceted rubies, about 8mm, sitting in antiqued silver bead caps shaped almost like leaves, with the rubies as a kind of flower. The rubies are actually a couple shades lighter than are shown in this photo. The bottom beads are cherry amber. The color there is pretty close.
Once more the rubies on top are actually two or three shades lighter than are shown in this photo. The smaller rubies in the middle are slightly pinker. The beads on the bottom are hand-carved tourmaline. Last time I looked at this photo, the color looked more true! They are really beautiful earrings, just slightly smaller than are in the picture.
All the beads here are Peruvian blue opal. Got them at different places, at different times. I love the look of the rough roundels and the smooth, more deeply colored spheres!
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