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I've added a new feature on my website: Jewelry Articles.  I wanted to provide my website visitors some valuable content and resources. 

The first article is called Spring Break - Jewelry Fashion Trends.  This article gives an overview of what the latest spring jewelry trends are with the college crowd

The second article is a how to guide on cleaning sterling silver jewelry.   

In other news, I've added another jewelry auction item.  This set I made a couple weeks ago.  The "boho" set is made of goldstone, faceted glass beads, amazonite, onyx, and freshwater pearl  for accents.

You can bid on this set at my jewelry auction booth at Yahoo!

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I've been quite busy with work, so I haven't been able to post in a couple days.  Writing has been more of the creative outlet for me as of late and I have been missing the jewelry making sessions.  However, I did make some time tonight and made this abstract piece: a two-stranded bracelet with an oval serpentine stone focal point. There's a mix of faceted glass, brown gold-stone, and peridot. 

I wasn't too sure of the color combination at first, but after it was done I was quite pleased with it...

Anyhow, I have added a few more earrings at my auction booth! 

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I celebrate my upteenth birthday today!  And of course, I celebrated with a chocolate birthday cake - my favorite :)  Thanks, Cruz Family!

We also celebrate the first days of spring.  Down here in San Diego it's been quite warm, so I've been out and about taking pictures in my travels around town. 

I say goodbye to winter here with a picture of these colorful leaves....

And say "Hello!" to this cute three-stranded pink and purple bracelet!

A great spring accessory :)

I'll have this bracelet available soon on my website!

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I wasn't quite sure whether or not I should start another blog being that I have so many blogs right now to keep up with, but somehow I feel the need to do an art and jewelry blog.  In the long run I think it will be beneficial for me and for you, my friend, customer, and reader, to be able to track my growth as an artist. 

With that said, it's been quite rainy here in San Diego and has made for some great photographs of clouds and blue skies in between the rainy days.  Here's a view of the sky from beautiful La Jolla, California.

It's also been a great week for making jewelry as well.  This is a fun retro-geometric-looking piece in my favorite color combinations of brown and blue. 

You can check out the details of this necklace in the new necklace studio of my website.

Well, it's 2 a.m. and it's been a long day of writing!  Time to catch some z's :)

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