Less is More

Earrings of Venetian style lampwork and Sterling silver

I've been working on new designs for the summer craft show market. I, at last feel that I am honing in on the personal style that was my original goal. 4 years ago when I decided to take my design career and background into a new direction by making jewelry, I had a concept but it wasn't fully developed. I started out by buying everything that I liked at the Washington Society Bead show and from the typical internet purveyors. I trained myself by experimenting, reading, observing at the ACC Baltimore show, MOMA, SFMOMA, The Smithsonian Crafts shows, etc.

One of my recent creations is a pair of earrings that are great in person, but they are impossible to photograph. They really need to be modeled and I don't want to get into that. Probably half the job of selling jewelry on the internet is photographing the work. I'm really trying for a museum look for my photos. Slowly the work and the photos become a unified look.

I'm a "Less is More" disciple. I buy materials that speak to me, and I want them to stand out, nothing tarted up.

And I also find that naming them, is lots of fun!