Studio Journal: Updates, Insights, and Tales from My Life

Step into my Studio Journal, where glitter meets grit and every day brings a new adventure in jewelry-making. From behind-the-scenes chaos to little sparks of inspiration (and the occasional cat cameo), this is where I share the stories, insights, and mishaps that make life as an artist anything but ordinary.

A woman sitting at a cluttered workbench with a black and white cat sitting on her lap. The workspace has tools and supplies around.

From Idea to Object: How a Special Order Comes to Life

A significant part of my business is custom work. Often, a client will see a piece in my case and fall in love with most of it but want a slightly different version. Perhaps the colors aren’t quite right, the scale needs to shift, or they’d like a different gemstone. These small adjustments to an existing idea can be a wonderful way to create something that feels personal while staying true to the language of my work.

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Meet My Team: The Real Studio Staff

As many of you know, I’ve been on a mission to whip my website into true e-commerce shape. I sprinted like mad to get most of my to-do list finished before my Black Friday sale—and thanks to your support, it was my most successful yet! That success has given me even more motivation to keep revamping things. Shockingly, the task turned out to be much bigger than I expected, and I’m now fully accepting that this is a slow-and-steady, overtime kind of project. I’m committed to making my website genuinely shoppable: better product descriptions, better photos, and more of them—especially showing how pieces look on the neck, hand, wrist, and on real people.

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