Lovely Hawai'i

Inspiration lies everywhere!

The sun kisses your skin and the mocha colored beach sand massages your toes. The ocean water looks like a mosaic of turquoise, chalcedony, sapphires and moonstones.

Druzy Slices & Geodes

Oh my! These make my heart flutter.

I paired them with tiny micro faceted moonstones.

I love the juxtaposition between raw and refined.

Earring Holders DIY

I love to display jewelry in non traditional ways at our shop Citrine and at home. I also have a terrarium fetish and hang my jewels on their glass rims (above).

Glass cylinders about the diameter of a dessert plate work really well. These will look lovely on your dressers or wherever you find yourself taking your earrings off. I layered three different sands and added little things I love like geodes or sea urchins. I recommend this link for beautiful sands: Artemisia

The weight of the sand keeps your holders in place. Enjoy!

My Love Affair with Turquoise

Turquoise, Amethyst and Garnet Tier Earrings

Clustered Wisteria Turquoise and Lemon Topaz Necklace

Turquoise and Champagne Quartz Tier Earrings

Turquoise is my black, brown and grey. It goes with all

colors and all gems. Opaque turquoise with

transparent gems?

Absolutely!

Invasion...of Legos!

These critters are everywhere!
I hear my little guy giggle when I spot one.
The one on my lamp is really sneaky.

Etsy Wishlist

These Items make me swoon!

From Clockwise:

Teacup and saucer at Pink Dahlia Studio,

Rain Drop Clock by Iluxo, Clamshell book
by Odelae, Manzanita Tree by Camlie Inc.

Lovely Shades of Green

Green Onyx Chandelier Earrings

Peridot Wisteria Cluster Earrings

Emerald Wisteria Cluster Earrings

Happy New Year!

Cheers to another year of love, laughter

and spontaneity!

DIY: Pressing Flowers

When those summer gardens are yielding or bouquets are spent, clip the lovelies to press.

I found this awesome press at a thrift store! You can use heavy books too. All you need is sheets of white paper and cardboard for layering. I made the mistake of using cardboard with a ribbed texture (my dried flowers have that same texture).

Lay your specimens down on white paper and layer with white paper, then cardboard and repeat.

Sandwich as many flowers as you like! Patience is the hardest part. Let your flowers dry for 2 months.

These pressed flowers are lovely and so fragile! Arrange in a frame or make cards out of them (I used stick glue to arrange in a frame).

Not bad for a first try, next time I'll add greens and maybe a sunflower!

Happy Holidays

Wishing you a happy holiday season!

Cookies

My favorite (today).My boys' favorites.
Mom's recipe.
Thumb prints

A dear friend planted this cookie seed in my head and it spread like wild fire! I had cookie ADD! Can't I just master one kind? No- I have to make a variety of mediocre ones. Nonetheless, it was fantastic!

DIY: Ornaments

Take: Felty balls,
felted sheets, thread

and stitch.

Cute little ornaments are shipped to family and friends.
Happy holidays!

Citrine Festivities Tomorrow!

If you are in the area- stop by and say hi!

Stockists

Fresh deliveries at:

Citrine-Portland, OR

Oxalis-Portland, OR

Silverado- Tigard, OR
Twiggs -Hood River, OR
Accessory Appeal- McMinnville, OR
Lily Atelier- Camas, WA
Compass Rose- Olympia, WA
Seattle Art Museum-Seattle, WA
Mane-Seattle, WA
Show Pony-Seattle, WA
Itsy Bitsy-Oakland, CA
Saffron & Genevieve-Santa Cruz, CA
Zinnia's- Scotts Valley, CA
Life-San Francisco, WA

Holiday Madness

I hope your holiday season has been lovely!

It's been busy but pretty smooth.

Lot's of these!
Fresh from the oven are necklaces &
earrings encrusted with...

Labradorites,

Blue chalcedony and green onyx.

Classic metalwork pieces like our Luna earrings are on

our studio table.

Every link on this Caviar Chain Link Necklace is

handcrafted.