Millefiori - Many Flowers
Introducing Amber
Amber is a tree resin that was fossilized from between 10 and 100 million years ago. It is is an organic material, not a gem or a stone. Trees in the dense forests of the creta...
Sparkle. Twinkle. Glint. Flash. Shimmer. Shine. Gleam.
A significant part of the wide world of jewelry design plays into these qualities, especially at the high end. What about those of us who enjoy a little, ahem, affordable bling?
Something Memorable
Tucson
Where do you get all those materials?
It’s a common question here at IBISwoman — and completely understandable. Visitors see our varied ready made jewelry. They peek into our workshop area behind the gallery’s main desk. Yeah, how *did* you get all these goodies?
I acknowledge our collection is, umm, unusual in its volume and breadth. We don’t sell our materials except as part of our designs. The large IBISwoman collection of working stock serves us well in responding to jewelry wishes and ideas from our clients. We often still have in stock materials from 10 years ago; that comes in mighty handy when trying to make a match for a lost favorite earring. (One of our best tricks, I must say.)
So answer the question, Kathy. Where?
Without Glass
“Without glass, the world would be unrecognizable.”
So wrote Douglas Main in his fascinating April 2018 piece for The Atlantic. From hair-thin glass strands that allow signals of light to move through undersea and underground cable to the rugged smart phones faces, glass of today is made in more than 350,000 formulas. Each has special optical or structural properties that make our world, well, recognizable.
In a passage that particularly caught my eye, the writer recounted that glass was a serious business in the Roman Empire. Several thousand years after glassmaking had been invented,
Ultra Violet 2018
Pearls and Dreams
Pearls and Dreams
Green Heart Beads: Italian Antiques with a Story
Himalayan Dreams
The Successful Gift
The gift-giver's dilemma. You know it. We all know it. The dilemma concerns kindly given and kindly received gifts that never just never find a place in the giftee's life.
• IBISwoman measures success by satisfaction. The bottom line takes care of itself.
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