Fossil Sand Dollar, ss, necklace

Every piece is handcrafted with positive intensions and joy by the artist but it is your life energy that completes it. When worn, the jewelry is transformed into a living work of art.

I enjoy beautiful things, jewelry being one. So, it was natural for me to incorporate jewelry making as a part of my creating ceramics from the beginning, 50+ years ago. After a while I discovered, from daily doG walks along our CA coastal bluffs, natural clay deposits that would stick to my sneakers. Yuck...In the process of cleaning it off, I'd roll it into a ball and thus my daily ritual of giving thanks to the Powers That Be was born; a beatitude, a prayer, a bead. I'd spin this "blessing" in disguise into some of my jewelry pieces and Assemblages. Also, years back, I found sand dollars and then fossil sand dollars as float along our beaches where I live today. The small sand dollars are rare to find. The fossils even more so, being approximately 3 million years old. They are treasures from the ocean. A gift. In my late 20's I learned how to fabricate metal jewelry. Years later I learned how to do lapidary where I cut and polished the fossil sand dollars to fabricate into jewelry.

This is my signature collection; it speaks of my life and the language of art jewelry to adorn the wearer, contemplate, experience and enjoy.

With every purchase I will donate 1% of net profits to a nurturing, coastal nature conservancy.

Thank you.