It is a custom piece for my Dad’s cousin, Val. A variation of the 5 Star Bueno, it will be a pin. Those holes will contain stones.Read More

I really enjoy melting stuff.  I have been gathering little bits of gold scrap and transforming them into gold-blob loveliness.  Rings. There is nothing quite as personal and meaningful, in the jewelry world, as a ring.  I love making rings.  I dream about rings.  Once you put one on it becomes an extension of yourself....Read More

I’ve just moved my workshop from Vancouver, B.C. to a little place at the end of a long and tree-canopied gravel road in the farmlands near Mt. Baker, WA.  It’s not actually set up just yet, and currently occupied (part-time) by my brother’s two big dogs and an inch of dusty dirt.  I’m excited to...Read More

I am falling in love with Copper. It didn’t happen right away.  I was hesitant, resistant.  But then it found it’s way under my hammer. The malleability of Copper hooked me.  Then there are the colors.  The pinkey orange when polished, black cherry/ash as it tarnishes with exposure to the elements of oxygen and skin,...Read More