Winter 2021 Collection

When I designed this collection, I was inspired by glaciers and knew I wanted to use a lot of clear quartz because it looks like ice. Winter is a time of rest and introspection. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could carry a little piece of winter magic with us all year round to remind us to rest, even during the summer when we feel like we have to maximize every second of sunshine?

I also used a combination of blues stones, both faceted and raw, inspired by the beauty of glacial lakes!

I hope you enjoy the collection as much as I enjoyed making it!

Metamorphosis 38: Multi-gem statement hoops

Photos: Before: old jewellery/After: new earrings

Katrina has been waiting a long, long, long time for her Metamorphosis! As in, it was supposed to be finished last July. That’s over a year ago…insert embarrassed face here.

So why did these take so long? Well simply because I couldn’t decide what to make her and I kept putting the job off! At first I was going to make her a cuff with larger stones but something about the design wasn’t jiving with me. I put the cuff away for a month to see if with time my inspiration would come back to me. Nope! I reached out to her to see how much she wanted me to use the larger stones she was hoping I would use and she too had decided that maybe they were too big. On to the next idea!

I played around with some earring ideas but wasn’t feeling them either. Then I decided to make a necklace and started making all the settings only to realize the necklace wasn’t going to look the way I wanted it to with the stones I was working with. So I benched that idea as well!

Last but not least, I revisited the earring idea and got inspired by some photos she had sent me. Katrina has short hair and likes bold earrings. I started putting things together and bingo, everything started falling into place! I used a bunch if her stones but I supplied a few extra to make sure the earrings were balanced albeit asymmetrical. And I learned that setting gem-cut stones (cabochon would have been better!) in bezel settings on wire hoops is hard. Many times I warped the hooks and then had to re-shape them!

Glad I finally got Katrina’s metamorphosis done and to all of those waiting for metamorphosis, I promise I won’t take so long to finish your jewellery!