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Here are two more photographs of very different work. Please click on photos for the far better image.

This is carved white jade probably 19th century, set in bronze with a carved bronze dragon. I love old jade. Making a suitable dragon for it was serous work. It's from the collection of Nancy Cobb and is about 2" wide.

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This Austalian opal stick pin is carved in sterling and is about 1.5" high. It's a stunning small opal and is from the collection of Bayla Fine. Thanks to Kurt Siegel for the excellent photo: opals are difficult to photograph!

I'm back, I had a marvelous time and I'll be posting some of the commissions I brought to folks there.

The pendant below us 2 cranes with red heads (rubies) from Hokkaido in Japan. They are considered very special there, and were going extinct until folks started feeding them as a regular practice. Bayla Fine saw them in a documentary and commissioned the pendant. I was really grateful she suggested them. They were a lot of work carving and very satisfying to make.

Please click on the picture to open it up. The expanded photo is *much* better.

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I'll post more later this week.

This is an exquisite chalcedony set in bronze with a small amethyst.

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And this is a stunning fresh water pearl (photo doesn't do it justice) with a knapped obsidian in a neolithic style. Both set in bronze.

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I love working with really interesting semi-precious stones

Balticon starts this Friday and I'm hoping to see lots of folks I know. I have several friends I know will be there.

And I'm almost ready!

I've made original pendants with these stones for Balticon. (ck the preview for best photo)

The purple chalcedony with amethyst and the pearl and the carved obsidian blade with the pearl handle are cast and the malachite will be soon or I may just bring the stone.

I have a group of castings ready for tomorrow and lots of polishing to do in the next 3 weeks.

I've been working on a pendant, carving it in wax and then to cast into silver. This is a lovely vintage jade carving. I'll put up the pendant when it's done. It's carved on both sides so the lovely carving is always visible, and is obviously reversible. The wax carving is leaves and branches that works really well with the jade carvings.

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I'm working on a whole group of pendants for Balticon for Memorial weekend in May. This is final work on most of them. I've been working on them for quite a while.

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I put this dragonfly pendant away for Simran quite a while ago and just sent it to her registered mail. She sent me this photo to let me know that it had arrived, with a note that said:

"It arrived!!!!

Thank you!"

I thought it looked really lovely on her. The body is a stunning opal and the head is a deep red antique Hungarian garnet.

And a side bar about the painting that I thought I would share:

"Side note:

The photo was taken in my mom’s kitchen, and the painting on the wall behind me was painted by my grandmother. My mom’s mom was a medical illustrator when young, and would pick up painting commissions for most of the time I knew her, mainly compositions incorporating people’s photos. The still life was likely created in a class (she was a lifelong learner)."

I thought the painting quite beautiful.

I'm working on some waxes for jewelry I'll be bringing to folks at Balticon on Memorial Weekend. The photos will not go up til after they receive them. It's keeping me very creatively busy.

I'm getting ready to go.These are two designs I've made for Balticon. They both have antique beads from Victorian to Art Deco. My grandmother had an unusual jewelry shop in Greenwich Village from the 50's to the 70's. She gave them to me and they have followed me everywhere. The pearls are real fresh water pearls.

These were designed for her antique beads.

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Looking forward to seeing everyone while I'm there.

I've got all the setting finished. The new Bronzite pendant set in bronze is below. It's another stone that is new to me. The photo is fine but both the setting design and the stone are even more beautiful then the photo.

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The stones changes like a tiger eye with moving light and the detail on the setting is more refined than the photo. It's about 2.5" high.

I'm really looking forward to being there and the work has progressed really well.

I've been very narrowly focused on getting my designs finished for Balticon in May. I just realized that I haven't posted here in much too long.

Necklace below is calla lillys in bronze with fresh water pearls.

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If I get some OK photos I'll put up more pictures of what I've been working on. I just mailed a commission of a lovely turquoise in a bronze design. I'll put it up as soon as it arrives at the home of it's collector.

This is a necklace of calla lilys and fresh water pearls in bronze that I just finished about a half hour ago.

The settings for the flame tiger eye and the bronzite are finished and polished - just the stone setting left.

I'm going to have to work a bit less, definitely beginning to burn out. But I will be back to more regular posting.

This is a pendant I made for Joanna Lowenstein a while ago. The stones are really exceptional malachites. It's a semi-precouos stone I love to work with because of it's stunning variety.

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I'm making a number of my smaller pieces for Balticon and I'll have new one of a kind designs as well. I'm being too busy, but that is often pretty normal.

I have 2 commissions that are finished and the photos will be up after they receive them. I think I'll describe them when the photos are up. They have different very special stones.

And having had a bunch of requests, I'm finally going to put up some images of my smaller work, earrings etc. Hopefully photographing them will go easily.

At the moment, after I post this, I'm putting pearls on a spider web with spider. And finishing earrings

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