A while ago I received the Jewelry Recipe Book to review on my blog. Problem was, with all of the wedding madness I forgot to get a post up. In the post-wedding calm, I feel like I’m almost back into my regular routines of…
Last summer I watched a coworker’s dog while she was in China and she brought me back this amazing tusk. I think she almost didn’t believe my other coworkers when they told her this was something that I’d love but she ended up bringing…
I am a total student of the internet. Over the past 10 years I’ve learned everything from HTML to soldering just by Googling questions, reading blogs, and watching YouTube videos. I love learning new skills but I hate going to classes. One of my…
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DIY Necklace With Beads From a Parisian Shop
When Sean and I went to Paris a couple months ago, one of the most helpful things for our trip was a little book a coworker gave me to borrow. It’s called Paris: Made by Hand and it features 50 little shops with handmade,…
Over the past couple years I’ve grown really interested in jewelry created from natural objects. From rocks to more rocks and shells, my jewelry collection is getting a little out of hand. The stuff I make isn’t something you can wear every day, but…
Over the past year I’ve been making quite a few rock necklaces. There’s one I made from the Virgin Islands, two from Montauk, one from Las Vegas, one I photographed at Stonehenge, and one from my trip around the UK and Ireland. (For the…
A few months back I was walking down Lexington Avenue to hop on the train to go to work when these blue drop earrings outside a bodega-like jewelry shop caught my eye. I’d been walking by this shop for almost two years and I’d…
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DIY Virgin Islands Rock Necklace
These days, if you go on vacation or a hike with me, there are always backpacks or suitcases that end up a bit heavier from the rock stowaways that make their way back to the NYC apartment. Recently went on medical school spring break…
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Malachite Drop Necklace with Chain Accent
This past Christmas, my budding geologist of a little brother took notice of my interest in rocks over the past year and gifted me some pretty incredible rock + mineral beads. (He also included some coal in his gift, but I probably deserved that…
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Glittering Rocks Statement Necklace
Last fall a coworker asked me to make a necklace for his friend who was moving out of the city. Recently they had gone on a trip to Barcelona and picked up rocks along the beach and he wanted me to use those in…