Turkic HamsaAugust 2013 Sterling silver, glass rhinestone The stone at the center of this piece is glass rather than sapphire, but it's far more precious. It comes from a set of cuff links passed on to me by my zayde, my maternal grandfather. He passed away when I was in elementary school, and his cuff links were one of my favorite mementos of him. When the links finally fell apart, I decided to repurpose their deep blue rhinestones. I had been wanting to make a

Commissioned by a very patient friend of mine

I do have a decent supply of semi-precious stone beads and occasionally look at them to inspire myself to think along tracks I don't usually follow

authority and command structure

We chose a beautiful half-carat F-color SI clarity diamond as the centerpiece of the ring

The centerpiece of this key chain is the calabash gourd bead

suspended in a silver cup that has been given a gray-black patina on the inside to make the limpid blues a little more mysterious

so embedded in my subconscious is the image and its lines

January 2011

and when the light hits them they really do have the fire of a lit match

which in my head I kept referring to as "off-kilter" when designing and forging it

as in a match between husband and wife

I make my wife a lot of jewelry