Spring Has Sprung!

I would love to be a gardner...really I would;days spent with my hands in the loamy soil under sunny skies sportin’ a floppy hat. A couple of months elapses and there you have lilacs and gardenias and tulips-a panoply of color brightening your world. But the fact of the matter is I can’t grow a damn thing. Perhaps it’s because I’ll spend about three exhausting minutes in the garden and suddenly realize I desperately need some fresh squeezed lemonade, so off I go, and gee whiz I may as well have some cookies to go with that. So I sit down with my hard earned snack and find myself in my studio lemonade i  one hand sparkling gems in the other. It is there that I have to admit if I’m going to make something with pretty colors you’re probably going to end up seeing it in your ears not in a vase. So the ‘Spring has Sprung’ is dedicated to the gardner in me with no soil under her finger nails but awash in, periwinkle hued tanzanite delicate leaf colored amethyst, forget-me-not blue aquamarines and the promise of Spring!

Spring has Sprung!

                                                     Iolite with Vermeil

                                                     Tanzanite and Green Amethyst with vermeil

                                                      Vermeil Discs with Green Amethyst and Tanzanite

                                                     Tanzanite and Vermeil

                                                      Green Amethyst and Vermeil

                                                      Vermeil with Tanzanite

                                                         Gold Vermeil wrapped with Iolite

                                                        Tanzanite and Goldfill Chandeliers

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                                     Gold Vermeil Diamonds with Long Green Amethyst

The Emerald City

I originally was going to call this line "The Emerald Isle". Emeralds being the star of the show and March being home to St. Patrick's Day, but then things got a tad flashy. When I think of the Emerald Isle I think of bucolic rolling hills of green, pastoral settings and of course those saucy leprechauns! But this line apparently had no interest in being pastoral and wanted some serious sparkle to liven things up. Enter black spinel, black garnet and opals-oh my! They give the pieces a little more flash than a country setting might allow thus I followed the yellow brick road and landed in The Emerald City! Think of these pieces as having both the glint in a leprechaun's eye and the mystery of The Wizard. And hopefully, you'll find a piece that simply says, "There's no place like home!"