Honey Bee Ring Series

Well I’m excited to tell you that I’ve just dropped a handful of videos that continue the behind the scenes story of creating the honey bee ring. Rather than going on and on about it all, I invite you to click on the video below and enjoy journeying along with me, through the trials and tribulations, as well as the celebrations. All aboard! Playlist - Honey Bee Ring: The Story

I got the kids settled into playing some video games, creating a little quiet space for myself. It was time to start cooking dinner, but I wasn’t in the kitchen. I was at my computer, clicking away at the 3D model of the bee ring. I knew if I didn’t start cooking soon, dinner would be late, which would make getting the boys ready for bed late, and getting them to bed late. It would throw the whole schedule off, but I didn’t care. This honey bee ring design had been living in

When Beautiful Isn’t Enough Have you ever poured your energy into something all day, only to stare at it later and think... “meh”? That was me yesterday. I spent hours sketching concepts for the Honey Bee Ring — ideas that were nice, maybe even beautiful. But they didn’t feel right. They looked a little too traditional, too expected. Like they could have come from anywhere. And that’s just not the kind of jewelry I want to make. So I went to bed. Or tried to. And that’s when

This one started with a conversation with one of my clients. I was picking their brains for some interesting ideas to design around and doing something based on honeybees came up and sounded brilliant. I had done a bee pendant for one of the employees there years ago. It was yellow gold and utilized a thickly rutilated quartz that resembled the stripes on a bumble bee’s butt. That one turned out beautifully, so I was excited to work on a bee theme again. I started with the id