Welcome everyone to my Heart of Stone weblog. I'm brand-new at this web-log thing, so I'll do my best but ask your understanding and even help when it comes to making this blog more effective.
I'd like this category of the blog to be devoted to the Heart of Stone Studio community--those customers and friends who are familiar with my website, who have made purchases from it, and who have used its bench tips sections. I figure if we share our ideas, our concerns, and maybe even some of our professional history, we might begin to serve as resource and support for one another as we strive to create beautiful things.
I don't think you can be a jewelry artist without a absolute fascination with nature. I remember the first time I saw a real piece of Georg Jensen jewelry...I came down with an instant case of jewelry lust!
The piece was a brooch in the shape of a wreath with embossed birds and semi-precious cabs, and I couldn't take my eyes off of it. I think I was about eight-years-old. To this day, I surf the glass cases in the Georg Jensen shop in NYC every chance I get.
I also haunt mineral shops, scientific curio and specimen stores, a stall at an annual fair where the guy sells preserved insects behind glass, the Herkimer diamond pits, shell shops, my backyard...anywhere I think I can find something to use or that will inspire me in my work. Nice life!! I just love it.
Posted by: Bridgette L. Rallo | December 27, 2006 at 11:58 AM