The Enchanted Forest Necklace

The Enchanted Forest is a place where all of your wildest dreams become a reality; a place filled with beauty, magic and intrigue. The Enchanted Forest necklace features a lot of intricate sterling silver wire wrapping and vivid Forest Green Apatite and Quartz. All of the stones are clear (without inclusions) and are of gorgeous quality. This necklace is luscious yet can still be worn with the right casual outfit.

The focal of this necklace is a beautiful, large Forest Green Quartz; all the tiny clusters are made of green Apatite. All findings are sterling silver and the necklace is finished off in the back with a little green apatite dangle. The length of the necklace (including the pendant drop) is 24". The pendant is 2" long and the chain can be clasped wherever you desire for various lengths.

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Huge Summer Clearance Sale!

I never have sales, but I'm feeling extremely generous and so I've marked down almost everything in my shop! As my work shifts and grows and I am clearing out older inventory to make room for the new. Enjoy!

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A Chance Encounter on the Interstellar Highway

A Chance Encounter on the Interstellar Highway - The Earrings

These earrings are all about being in the flow...letting yourself go where you want and just following your creativity and allowing magic to show up. These earrings turned out nothing like their original design but I just flowed with it and this piece practically created itself.

"A Chance Encounter on the Interstellar Highway" is also about romance- that chance encounter that leads to love while just flowing along with your life. You know, you are just driving around (or flying around- it is the Interstellar Highway you know!) and then you just happen to meet someone; that special someone who, whether for a short period of time or for the rest of your life, sparks romance, passion, and love.

In case you are wondering how Outer Space is coming into play, well, the swirls and twirls of the wire work make me think of some intergalactic highway; an almost inter-dimensional road that allows traveling in layers with all sorts of fun twists and turns.

These earrings have stunning salmon-peach chalcedony in 4 different shapes and sizes, deep purplish-pink rubies, deep red garnet, and plum zircon. They hang 3 3/4" long and are 2" wide at their widest; they are about 1.5" wide in the middle of the circle.

The earrings are available in my Etsy store or at DiVanityDesigns.com

The Medusa Necklace

~Medusa Necklace

I am continuously inspired by Greek Mythology, and Medusa is quite the monster, so she should, of course, take center stage in one of my pieces.

Medusa was, before she was turned into her monstrous form, one of the most beautiful maidens in all of Athens. But we all know how outrageous beauty can go to one's head and she was eventually turned into her monster form by the Goddess Athena. Stories differ as to why this occurred- she either bragged about her beauty in Athena's temple or had sex with Poseidon in her temple. Either way...bad move on Medusa's part; you really don't want to tick off a Goddess! She was turned into the snake haired, fanged, lethal creature that we are all familiar with and that creature is the inspiration for this necklace.

The pendant focal of this necklace is a lovely combination of coiled sterling silver (to mimic her snake hair), teal chalcedony, quartz, apatite, and a druzy focal within the coils. Notice the quartz fangs? Yeah...those are Medusa's teeth.

Above the focal is a row of AAA Swiss blue topaz nuggets and blue quartz, which are reminiscent of the Aegean Sea. The necklace finishes off with sterling silver chain and a chalcedony onion at the clasp. All findings are sterling silver.

The necklace length (when clasped, hanging straight down) is 15" but can be clasped farther down on the chain to hang shorter. The total length of the chain (opened) is 22" and the length of the pendant is 3.5".

~ Coiled Pendant Component based on the tutorial by Gailavira.

It's for sale here: DiVanityDesigns.com Or in my Etsy Store


Photo by Boris Vallejo

I posted this gorgeous Azurite piece for sale- I love Azurite (I am obsessed with teal in case you haven't noticed; my favorite stones are turquoise, azurite and chrysocolla). I made a little video but I don't have good skilz in this department yet- forgive the shakiness. I thought this would be more interesting than pics.

Why on Earth would I match my jewelry to my eyeshadow?!?

The other day a friend and I were joking around about matching jewelry (I prefer an ecletic blend rather than matching) and she asked "do you ever match your jewelry to your eyeshadow?", to which I replied "of course not!  That would be ridiculous.".   Then I realized I had matched, at least a little.  I was wearing gray and silver that day and I had on neutral eyeshadow but I had put a line of turquoise eyeshadow underneath my lower lash line which matched my huge turquoise cocktail rings.  Accident? Yes!  Bad Idea?  Well...not necessarily.  Sometimes we learn from our accidents, don't we now?


I like to think of my makeup as just another form of my creative expression, so I play around with colors just like I do with my jewelry.  So I snapped a little pic of my eyeshadow yesterday, which was a combo of light pink, rusty peach, shimmery peach and purple (yeah, I know- it's hard to see!).  I was wearing peach and gray so I wasn't about to wear peach jewelry.  Usually with this particular ensemble I wear rose quartz, black or sterling, but I decided to grab some purple earrings to see how it looked.  Result?  It worked!  I didn't end up wearing purple because I wanted to wear some crazy necklaces instead, but here are some pics of the jewelry that would go with my eyeshadow.

So it wasn't such a crazy idea after all....but would you do it (eclectically, of course)?