Jeannius Musings

Southern Highlands Guild show July 17-20th

I will be doing my first Southern Highland Craft Guild show July 17-20th at the Asheville Civic Center, Downstairs, in corner booth 419. I'll be showing off some brand new designs, both cast and handmade pieces.

New website!

Jeannius Designs has a new look and new shopping cart system! I've still got jewelry to upload, but my new setup is now running. The site is php driven and was created by Gillan Bradley(programming) and the graphic design/content by myself.

cool blue!

As many of you know, I've been on a bit of a gemstone cutting binge! Well, here are a few of my latest cabs...basically gem silica, which is chalcedony colored by Chryscolla, a blue, copper based mineral. Some of them also contain malachite inclusions (green) or Cuprite (rust red). A few of the highly patterned stones are closer to either silicated chrysocolla or chrysocolla in quartz...I'm not quite sure where to draw the line between the later and gems silica except that the ones I'm calling chrysocolla in quartz are less evenly blended and show clearer patterning and separation of the chrysocolla withing the quartz. In any case, a bunch of cool stones, no matter what you call them!







And here is what I've cut to date, minus a couple I've used in jewelry, shown aproximately actual size:





I've still got a bunch of material left to cut!

Please take a look at my blog entry of new pieces to see two pieces actually set with some of the higher grade gem silica!

Jeanne

pretty sparklies and new gem silica coming soon!

These cabs are all gem silica...I've cut these recently, still have some of that material to cut, plus the new material I'm getting. I'm aiming for high end materials and jewelry these days!


This one shows all I've cut so far.


This one shows the best of them in terms of blue color and translucence.


These were from a piece which is more green.


These have fantastic color, but some inclusions of chrysocolla.


This is a fun one...visible clouds of chrysocolla and a swath of malachite showing at the top.


Can't wait to get some of them set in jewelry!



I've got a new chunk coming, and it's a big one!


Am hoping it's as good as it looks!


Jeanne

Studio Stroll! Come visit me!

I'll be taking part in the River District Studio Stroll June 9-10th! My studio is in Riverview Station (Earlier known as the Candlestation), her in Asheville, NC. For more information, see the RDA website .

Our building can be found at 191 Lyman St. Asheville, NC, which is at the intersection of Lyman St and Old Lyman St


Use this mapquest link and enter your starting destination for detailed driving instructions.

The past meets the future

Since New Years, I've been working on more modern versions of my work....daring to break the filigree mold and go into more asymmetrical designs with higher end stones. Here are a couple of more recent images:

Cabs, cabs and more cabs!

I've been on a lapidary binge! I've gotten a lot of great rough over the years and finally got a trim saw to cut it up into small enough slabs and have literally worked my fingernails off!(well, shorter an thinner, in any case!)

So you'll be seeing a lot of great material, turquoise, chrysoprase, variscite, gem silica, and others in my jewelry in the future! I also plan to post some of my cabs in my shop as is!

Here's today's cabbing work:

chrysoprase, gem silica, larimar, turquoise, Holly blue calcedony, and an azurite malachite with chatoyant malachite! It sparkles like green flash opal in the green malachite!




I've also gotten several pounds of variscite to cut...here's what I've done so far!



And a mix of the variscite, turquoise and other recent cabs:



There will be more where that came from! I'm waiting on a parcel which contains more chrysoprase, variscite, chrysocolla, malachite and even gem silica!

Jeanne

Anyone like Turquoise?

I've gone on a stone cutting binge lately! here's a few of the turquoise I've cut recently, which I'll start setting as well! Keep checking back to see what they show up in!

Jeanne

New Piece: "Fire and Lace"

I'm starting to get on a roll, doing this series of asymmetrical, winged designs. Here's the latest! Created Feb, 23, 2007.



"Fire and Lace": drusy pyrite, opal and yellow and orange sapphires

Two more new pieces

Hi all, I'm getting back into the swing of things after being kind of off track from jewelry and doing more jewelry photography and computer work for a while..

Here are two new pieces :

This first one is either going to be called "rainbow fairy" or "Devil in Angel's Guise" because of the 'tail' at the bottom. Let me know which name you like best!! it contains a very colorful boulder opal doublet and two fancy colored sapphires.




The other is called "golden owl", and it was my daughter, Kaja, who said it looked like an owl. It contains a druzy pyrite (head) and a solid opal.





There will be more new pieces to come soon!

Jeanne



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