Cufflink Season...

This week I finished up a group of cufflinks that will head down to Silver Blue & Gold gallery in Laguna Beach. I was invited to submit work to their upcoming cufflink exhibition in this father's day/graduation/wedding season, and as I've always loved  making cufflinks, I was only too happy to be a part of it! Imagine, a whole show just devoted to cufflinks! 

This batch consists mainly of fossils. 

On the left is Hell's Canyon petrified wood (sequoia) from Oregon, next is fossil coral and the pair on the right is Owyhee jasper, also found in Oregon.

Fossil palm on the left, and on their right is more petrified wood, this time hickory.

I'll still have a good selection of cufflinks in my shop, and I'm sure I'll be adding a few more prior to Father's Day if you're looking for a special gift for your cufflink wearing man!

my new love...

Well, maybe not that new, but ever since I was offered some Hell's Canyon herringbone petrified wood a couple of years ago, I've been smitten! 

Discovered in the Hell's Canyon gorge in the late 50's and a portion of what was there was removed just prior to the construction of the Snake River's Brownlee Dam, which subsequently flooded the area. So there's a limited supply, which helps with the mystique, but it's lovely herringbone pattern and vugs, or voids filled with druzy, makes it stand out all on it's own! The wood has been since identified as sequoia, and I'm happy to have a few pieces left and am soon to have more,yay!  

this ring is just the most recent piece to come out of the studio, below are a few previous ways I've used the material...

Cufflinks. These were given as a graduation gift.

A beautiful treasure ring which also features a freeform pearl and raw diamond.

currently available...

And I'll soon be doing my best to see that I have a large supply for lots of future work!  Anyone interested in having something made just contact me through my etsy shop!