These unusually shaped stones are set in necklaces with handmade gold-filled wire bails on gold-filled chain.   They are available in my Art...

My very first jewelry pieces, years ago, were wire-wrapped stones, but silver wire became very expensive so I turned to other media.  Once I...

I'm preparing for some shows this fall and these pendants and earrings are some of my new works. They are in the Julie Picarello style o...

My friend Carolyn Good, who is about the most creative and prolific clayer I know, and I have both been working with faux knits in the Mis...

I've been busy preparing for two shows on consecutive weekends, so I've been doing variations on prior designs.  These pendants are ...

I love the retro pixelated cane (thanks Bettina Welker) and I love die forming (thanks Dan Cormier).  Here is my latest pendant using these ...

I like the look of distressed metals, and this piece is really distressed.  I tortured a piece of copper with a torch until I got this amazi...

These weeks sure roll around fast!  Here is my entry for Week 5.  It is made from a piece of copper with a naturally occurring patina.  Then...

I made this polymer clay pendant and the earrings to go with it using a Retro Pixelated Cane (from Bettina Welker's tutorial).  The pend...

Playing with fire and copper is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you are going to get.  And you never know if it will stay whe...

I just put this Madonna and Child pendant necklace into my Artfire store.  I'm not a religious person but I love the warmth of this ima...

For these three pieces, I folded and manipulated the metal and then applied either heat patina or an oxidizing solution.   Aside from the sh...

I love metal, particularly copper, and mixed media pieces, so I've been experimenting combining copper with polymer clay.  I fold-formed...

I've been busy making brooches using CaBezel molds and image transfers.  Because they have a convertible pin back, they can also be worn...

I took the photo of my pendant into Photoshop and flipped the dancer so she is facing the other direction.  I think is better.  It seems to ...

I have been away from clay for quite awhile, first because I was ill with some nasty flu-like virus that wouldn't go away and then becau...

I'm working on a line of jewelry (jewellery for Canadians and others) featuring distressed faux metal and other ancient-looking material...

Finished at last.

OK, I know I'm late posting this photo, but I had to watch the Super Bowl, even though we get cheated out of the good commercials here i...

Well, I finished the pendant but I don't like it very much.  I filled the curved piece with scrap clay and baked it, then put another sh...