Botanica in Progress

It starts with a handful of wonderful stones:

a rare and deeply colored Parrot Wing Jasper

a self-cabbed piece of Australian Chrysoprase

a brilliant and gem-quality Australian opal

and a stunner of labradorite.

In progress: a double layer of botany:

fern and jacaranda tree leaves

in an asymmetrical necklace

A long seed pod sculptural necklace in which the opal will rest

WOW.

A Fading Flower Necklace - To-Be...

And this final study, a leaf I had collected a few years back in Petaluma,

stuck in a pocket of my grey peacoat and forgotten

until a few weeks ago when I was looking for change:

The leaf had become nearly skeletal, perfectly supple and soft

like an old flannel.

I hope to have these pieces done by the end of the month.

November will be a very sparse month

as I'll be gone for half of it,

split between

Hawaii

and

Minneapolis:

I am getting these beauties in while the energy is right

and the studio is a warm, loving blaze of passion!

Tonight my mother arrives: the best birthday present a woman could ask for!!

Have a wonderful night,

Allison