Sunrise Pearl PendantDecember 2019 Kauai sunrise shell, Tahitian pearl, 14 karat gold A friend to the family gave me a Kauai sunrise shell (a. k. a. a Langford Pecten, a type of scallop) when he heard that my niece's name means "dawn," so that I could make her a piece of jewelry with it. I ground off the calcification on the back of the shell to reveal the beautiful yellows, added a peach colored Tahitian pearl to compliment the pinks on the inside of the shell.

The result is what looks like a simple

one of their most interesting and unusual features them is that they possess their own atmosphere independent of the planet itself

suspended in a silver cup that has been given a gray-black patina on the inside to make the limpid blues a little more mysterious

the Hawaiian red cranesbill geranium

and is even more rarely specific about what it should be

May she wear it in health and may it invite in the light even in times of darkness

January 2018

and the slightly satin finish of the leioglyph gives it a glow not unlike that of beach glass

I heard it in my wife's voice: "arise

Astrologically

watery 14k rose gold band and a setting of three ginkgo leaves

so I really wanted to do something with them