Christine Linder has taken some photos of my new jewelry series. It’s fun to see the work through someone else’s eyes, and looking so fancy and grown up.

From my jewelry posts so far you’d think that I work exclusively in white pearls. I don’t, but it’s almost always what I use when I’m designing. The white allows me to see clearly what I’m doing with shape before I move into color.

I’ve found my way back to making jewelry after several weeks of no focused design time. The absence was bugging me, and once I broke through the itchy aggravating wall of studio reentry, I felt better.

These are early morning pictures. I like to leave out new work and see how I feel about it when I’ve had some time away. It’s like a new friend; are you really as cool as I thought last night? Or new back-to-school clothes, which I liked to leave right by my bed so that I could feel them as I fell asleep, and see them as soon as I opened my eyes.

One of my necklaces is in the Lovely Hearts exhibition at Artstream Gallery in Rochester, New Hampshire.

I made the pendant specially for the show. It’s a little cuter than most of my work, and I’m not sure how I feel about that (shouldn’t analyze so much), but the curly lines remind me of Eastern European decorative arts, an influence I wasn’t aware of before seeing the necklace completed.

You can check out all the beautiful hearts that have been sent in so far on the exhibition flickr page, and they’re adding them as fast as they can to their online gallery store. 50% of all sales goes to Breast Cancer Research and everything is $100 and under, so get your wallet out. Art + Good Cause = Happy Feeling.

I made a pendant yesterday, a new member of the Leaf Collection. I’m enjoying the simplicity of the single, feathery leaf.