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The small dendritic agate and the tanzanites I found online. The large dendritric agate I found at Golconda Jewelry. It's an Alatakyr dendritic agate from Kazakhstan. The smaller ones are from India. All the baroque pearls came from the NY Mineral Show, which is small but eclectic. The tanzanites are becoming earrings. I've finished the design. I think I know what the dendritic agate, and...

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My friend, Odette's great aunt Nattey spent 70 years collecting jewelry. She gave it all to Odette. It's a huge, eclectic bunch of jewelry. Odette chose a group of pieces from the kitschy part of the collection, invited 25 jewelers with different styles to choose a piece, and then use it as inspiration for a new piece. The result is this show. The Cutting Through...

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I was given this Award of Excellence during the American Craft Council's American Craft Made show in St. Paul, MN, much to my surprise. I didn't even know they gave awards.
 When a group of people congregated outside my booth on Saturday, my first thought was, 'what did I do wrong.' This was the first time I'd done one of their shows so I figured...

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