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We’ve been crazy busy working on producing and shipping jewelry daily. I (Jared) am working on trying to finish as much custom work as possible before we close on the 23rd for our annual break. Here are a couple of projects that were finished and promptly shipped thus far this week.

First we’ve got a really rad set of stone thin tunnels. One is 1 3/4″ and the other is 2″ – wall thickness for both is about 3.5mm which makes them very fragile. Thinking forward to storage I decided it would be nice both aesthetically and for practical reasons if they nested inside one another, so that’s what happened. This is Guatemalan jadeite with tourmaline inclusions.

Next up we’ve got a beautiful 0g set of Mayan flared square faced (a traditional Pre-Hispanic design, although somewhat rare) plugs made from Guatemalan black jadeite with Chiapas amber inlays set in silver. This is stone set in silver, set in stone with no adhesives, 100% hardware attachment. We don’t get to make many square faced pieces so these were a treat and we appreciate being asked to do them!

Lastly here’s a set of Mayan flared ebony plugs with Peruvian turquoise in silver. The stone was provided by a customer that obtained it in Peru during her travels. We had already created a few sets of solid stone plugs for her from it but she wanted a mixed media piece as well, so we created cabochons from the material and made these for her.

Time to go home and wash off the stone/wood/grass/silver/copper/amber/glass dust (seriously, we worked in all of those materials today!) and rest for the evening so we can come back and do it tomorrow!