Specialties
My passion is working with clients to create custom jewelry with personal meaning and significance. The process begins with a friendly consultation to exchange ideas about what you want to create. I draw from 40 year experience as an entrepreneur and artisan. Some of my clients come to the consultation with developed ideas and others come with only a vague idea of what they want. From this starting place, we begin to design the piece together. I guide my clients through the entire jewelry-making process until we have a finished piece they love. I value keeping my jewelry business as environmentally friendly as I can. I helped create Green Karat, an organization that tackles the environmental, hazards of the gold industry by promoting recycled, post-consumer gold and stones. As an ecologically sustainable business practice, I encourage the use of recycled gold that has been re-refined, over newly mined, gold whenever possible. The two types of gold are visibly indistinguishable