Showing posts with label beach stone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach stone. Show all posts

10.13.2016

Beach Stones with Silver Linings

Still one of my most popular items, I continue to hone my skills at tube riveting Lake Erie beach stones.
These are some of my latest designs. Click on the images to take you to the SToNZ store to see if they are still available.

Post back earrings


Quadruple chain necklace


Tiffany chain bracelet updated


Simple stone necklace


Not your typical Pandora bracelet




5.30.2016

Tube Riveted Lake Erie Beach Stone Artisan Earrings



I love big bold dangly earrings, but I prefer wearing posts to ear wires. These new beach stone beauties fit the bill!
Photos do not do them justice.
Hot off the bench and one of a kind!
Get em while they're hot. Just sayin.
Find them in the SToNZ store.

5.26.2016

New Work

The latest from SToNZ.
 
 

11.23.2014

Too Many Bracelets?

Sunday morning SToNZ arm party.
:)
All bracelets are currently available in my Etsy shop.
The more the merrier, I always say!

11.05.2014

Aggregate Necklace With Seaglass

A second aggregate necklace.
This time with a gorgeous piece of bright aqua seaglass dangling below.
Made with silver from an antique spoon and hung on a gorgeous vintage sterling chain.
Sold right quick. Guess I need to explore this idea more. I wasn't sure whether folks would go for the look, but apparently it's got potential!
What do you think?
Cool or strange?
:)




11.02.2014

A Conglomeration of Aggregate

I don't know exactly what this stuff is, but I have been collecting it from the shores of Lake Erie for many years. It appears to be aggregate of some sort. Like lots of smooth beach pebbles held together with cement, broken into chunks and then tumbled for years in the Great Lakes.
If anyone has information on this stuff, I'd be very interested to know more. Many industries have dumped their slag and junk into our lake over the years and I imagine that these lovely rocky clusters I find are the byproduct of some manufacturing process.



I thought it might be fun to bezel set one of the smaller pieces of this stuff into a silver necklace. The back plate was made from the bowl of a sterling silver antique spoon. So upcycled and recycled all the way around. Something different. Find it here in my Etsy store.





Lake Erie Living Magaine



I am so excited to find my riveted Lake Erie beach stone charm bracelet featured in the November/December 2014 issue of Lake Erie Living Magazine! On stands now. (At least in the stores where I didn't buy them out.)
;)



10.15.2014

Lake Erie Beach Stone Charm Bracelets

I returned from my last visit to an antique show with a handful of glorious old heavy sterling silver chains. This means it's time for some new SToNZ "charm" bracelets.
Process pics show the drilled stones before during and after lining the holes with hand wrought sterling silver tube rivets. Heavy jump rings link the stone charms to the chains and are soldered closed. After some filing, sanding, oxidizing and buffing, they are ready to go!
Oh to wear a whole wristful of these at once.
Yummy.







9.10.2014

Not ready to say goodbye to summer...

so many lucky stones
wishing stones
looks like candy 
sorting the haul
beach glass lips?
ancient sea creature fossils

fossilly weirdness

my happy place


my first yellow!