Hand-beaded bracelet featuring bead weaving techniques utilizing white Czech glass pearls, black Czech fire-polished beads, silver glass seed beads, and a lobster claw clasp in the shape of a heart.

Hand-beaded bracelet featuring bead weaving techniques utilizing white Czech glass pearls, black Czech fire-polished beads, silver glass seed beads, and a lobster claw clasp in the shape of a heart.

Hand-beaded bracelet featuring bead weaving techniques utilizing white Czech glass pearls, black Czech fire-polished beads, silver glass seed beads, and a lobster claw clasp in the shape of a heart.

Hand-beaded bracelet featuring bead weaving techniques utilizing white Czech glass pearls, black Czech fire-polished beads, silver glass seed beads, and a lobster claw clasp in the shape of a heart.

Meet Black Tie & Pearls—a handwoven bracelet of white glass pearls, black Czech glass, and silver seed beads, with a heart-shaped clasp. Elegant + versatile 💫 chafowitz.com

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The photo is a beautiful green eyed tabby cat sitting on storage boxes of metals and other materials in my jewelry workshop. She is my beautiful assistant Lily.

Beautiful workshop assistant, Lily helping with studio cleanup and materials organization. #CristinaLeonardJewelry
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#catsofbluesky

The photo is of a box stuffed with tubes of seed beads of many different colors. Some nearly as small as dust. Some would call it a hoard.

The photo is of a pair of earrings being held in my hand Fringe style earrings with the blue seed beads, and silver nugget cube beads.

Still on a seed bead kick. A nice diversion from metal and stones. Back to the bench soon. #ArtYear
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art

The photo is of a rustic bronze pendant in the quatrafoil with 4 lapis beads suspended from it. The pendant has a central pyramidal shape in the middle. The piece is suspended from large ring nails onto the leather.

#ArtYear This is a bronze and lapis pendant on leather that I made several years ago.
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Lapis

A slab of pietersite. Blue and tan with a texture much like tiger eye. With a pattern that goes in many directions.

Some recently acquired #Pietersite that is soon to be made into something nice, I hope.
#ArtYear
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
#Lapidary
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#Art

Sterling earrings made it cast silver ammonites on a textured round background. Black patina, burnished high spots.

#ArtYear Sterling #Ammonite earrings 2024
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The photo is of a sterling silver and gold lapis ring in my hand. The band is a thick silver with bronze embellishments, a gold basil with a faceted oval lapis stone. The lapis is from Afghanistan. 2024.

#ArtYear #Lapis and gold ring. 2024. Lapis is magical.
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#Lapidary
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#Art

The photo is of four 5 gallon buckets turned on their sides, spilling out different kinds of turquoise rough stones onto a table. This is a scene from a gem show last February in Tucson, Arizona.

#ArtYear A photo from one of the big gem shows in Tucson last February. I want all of the #Turquoise
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
#Lapidary
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#Art
#Tucson

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Last day! #Charcoal
A little video of my charcoal block that I solder on.
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#Art

The photo is of a heart shaped pendant on a white background. The pendant has a heart shaped stone of blue Dumortierite with sterling silver embellishments in the shape of leaves and a rose. The pendant hangs from a handmade chain with a twisted sterling wire bail.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Ok, playing fast and loose with the prompt, #Rose, but here goes. Sterling and dumortierite.

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#Art

Sterling silver, 18K bezel and embellishments (balls) with a magenta faceted Grape Garnet. The band was sandcast and highly textured. 2023.

Sterling silver, 18K bezel and embellishments (balls) with a magenta faceted Grape Garnet. The band was sandcast and highly textured. 2023.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Magenta Grape Garnet ring sterling with a 18k gold bezel 2023.
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art
#sandcast
#Garnet

The photo is of a ring against a stark white background. The ring is a Freeform, roughly triangular shaped labradorite stone set in a heavy silver bezel. The band is a rustic textured silver with bronze sphere embellishments.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Very late entry! #Teal
Labradorite, Sterling and bronze ring 2023
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art
#labradorite

The photo is of a sterling silver necklace against a white background. The shape of the pendant is an elongated squared off triangle. It is highly textured with abstract floral patterns. The pendant attaches to a handmade heavy silver chain with a toggle clasp with the same pattern.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Silver is the prompt. Finally an easy one! Most things I make are silver. 2024. CristinaLeonardJewelry
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art

The photo is of a pendant against a gray background. The pendant is heart shaped with a bronze backing plate with a textured silver overlay with a gold dragonfly on top of that. The silver is riveted to the bronze piece. The dragonfly appears to be flying over water. The heart pendant is suspended by a large, jumping onto a handmade silver chain.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Gold is the prompt. This is front way back times. 24k gold, bronze, sterling.
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#Dragonfly

An elliptical shaped Dinosaur bone cabochon stone. Red and black 2024.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Coral is the color. Here’s a coral-ish color Dino bone cab cut last year.
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art

The photo is of my hand holding f a roughly triangular cabochon. The stone is a moss agate with mint green and yellow plumes and a clear background. It is about 2.5”x 1.5”.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
The color is #Mint. This is a moss agate I cut last year. It looks like a lost world.
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#Art

The photo is of a roughly oval cabochon in my hands the stone is a Flame Agate with varying shades of red and flame like pattern. It is about 2”x 1.5”.

#ArtYear #acoloradAyPRIL
#Maroon is the color. Flame Agate cut in 2024.
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#Art
#Agate

The photo is of a group of morel mushrooms next to my hands to give them a sense of scale. They are tan in color with a sponge-like top and a creamy white stem.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Tan Not my work, but one of nature’s greatest wonders in my opinion. 2024. IYKYK
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#Lapidary
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#Art
#Iowa
#Morels

A bronze pendant on 3 leather strands against a rustic wooden background. A hollow lentil shaped pendant with 2 dragonflies flying in the same direction above a background of Queen Anne’s Lace. The pendant is about 2 inches across and hangs from a bronze bail.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
#Peach is the color. Peachy, patina on this bronze pendant from 2023.
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#Lapidary
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#Art
#bronze
#dragonfly

A field of lavender in full bloom under a beautiful early evening Iowa sky.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
I haven’t got any work that’s #Lavender, but here’s a shot from a dinner I went to last year at a beautiful lavender farm here in Iowa.
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#Art
#IowaSky

The photo is of a pyramid shaped stone or sugar loaf against a stark white background. The stone is lime, green with black inclusions and measures about a half an inch.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Lime green is today’s color. “Sugar loaf” cut Prehnite with epidote incisions. 2023.
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#Lapidary
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#Art
#prehnite

The photo is of a ring against a stark white background. The ring is sterling silver with a sky blue azurite cabochon. The stone is a square-ish rectangle shape. The band has been cast and has a rough, rustic texture with a black patina. 2024

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Sky Blue is today’s color. Azurite, Sterling ring. 2024
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#Art
#Azurite

The photo is of a pair of earrings against a rustic pod background. The earrings are roughly 3/4 moon shapes about 1.24 in across and have a sandpaper like texture and a shiny strap like feature . They have a curved Earwire soldered onto the body of the earring.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
Not exactly ‘Gray’ but the best I could do 🩶
Sterling Silver, 2023
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
#Lapidary
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#Art

The photo is of a pair of black earrings against a white background. The earrings are carved wood. They have been carved into a spear shape and have an overlay of sterling silver riveted on with bronze The Sterling overlay has a black patina. The earrings are attached to a jump ring and an ear wire with a sterling silver bail.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
‘Black’ Carved wood and sterling earrings. 2016
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#Art

The photo is of a pair of earrings against a white background. The earrings are bronze with an overlay of sterling silver that has been hammered with a silk like texture. The earrings have a warm brown patina that’s been hand burnished. The body of the earring is round in shape (about an inch and a half in size) with a half circle cut out creating a sort of 3/4 moon shape. Earrings are suspended by a sterling bale onto a sterling air wire.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
‘Brown’ Bronze and sterling earrings with hammered texture and dark brown patina. 2023
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
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#Art

The photo is a pair of earrings against a white background. The earrings have 10mm pink and cream colored striped bezel set rhodochrosite stones. The bezels are soldered to pieces of thick twisted silver wire (1.25 inches) with a square bit of wire on top. Post earrings findings are soldered to the squares.

#acoloradAyPRIL #ArtYear
‘Pink’ Rhodocrosite and sterling silver 2024.
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#Art
#Rhodocrosite

The photo is of 4 bronze charms against a rustic wood backdrop. The charms are rough hewn hearts in relief with a rectangular background. The background edges have been carved to give them a rough handmade look. The charms have an orangy rust patina.

Day2 #acoloradAyPril. The prompt is ‘Orange’. Bronze rustic heart charms 2023.
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#Art #bronze

A large silver pendant with four inset glass cabochons. A large green cabochon is set in a textured frame, with a slightly smaller purple cabochon below it to the right. Two small round cabochons, one purple and one orange, are set with flower petals around them, making them look like flowers, and placed to the left and right partly on top of the larger cabochons. There's a third flower and three leaves all in silver, placed around the lower large purple cabochon. The pendant is strung on a braided black leather cord.

Another one for #4Art25 theme Blossom and Bloom. It's got a bit of orange in it, so maybe for todays #AColorADayPril (orange) too?

Silver clay and dichroic fused glass cabochons, made by me a buch of years ago.

#bskyjewelry #HandMade #ArtYear #ArtisanJewelry #GlassFusing

The photo is of a pendant a rustic wood background. Pendant is an in sterling silver. The cabochon is pink and red poppy Jasper. The pendant is suspended from three jump rings onto a woven sterling silver chain

A new challenge. The prompt is red. Poppy Jasper, sterling silver. #AColorADaypril #CristinaLeonardJewelry
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
#Lapidary
#LapidaryArtist #BlueSkyArt
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#Art
#ArtYear
#poppyjasper

A roughly triangular pendant against a white background. The pendant features a flashy blue, green labradorite stone. The setting is sterling silver with three decorative spheres near the bottom.

#MakersmARTch #ArtYear Todays word is ‘Flash’. Labradorite cut in 2024, sterling pendant. #CristinaLeonardJewelry
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#DoWhatYouLove #LapidaryArt
#Lapidary
#LapidaryArtist #BlueSkyArt
#BskyJewelry #BlueSkyJewelry
#WomanArtist #MakeThings
#Art
#labradorite