Green Ombré Earrings woodworking This got me thinking about

This got me thinking about the long history of the Japanese people in Hawai‘i and how Japanese culture has contributed so much to what we in Honolulu consider ”local“ culture

At the same time

And it looks even better draped around a wrist than it does here

Because both of them are part Japanese

but through the process I wound up designing something completely different

Green Ombré Earrings woodworking This got me thinking aboutOctober 2014 Jadeite, malachite, 14 karat gold Although I don't do a lot of bead work, I do have a decent supply of semi precious stone beads and occasionally look at them to inspire myself to think along tracks I don't usually follow; this tends to make the rest of my work more interesting as a result. I happened to fixate on three separate strands of beadstwo different colors of jadeite and one strand of malachitethat were each individually salable,