And the winner is...

I've selected an entry from my $100 gift certificate giveaway contest (via Random.org) and the lucky winner is Gabriel J.!

Thanks so much for playing, everyone! It was lots of fun for me as well. Feel free to continue to pass along your thoughts and suggestions about my new site as I continue to make little tweaks and adjustments.

New Work

Fair trade grape garnet and recycled sterling silver ring, size 6.5

Fair trade black spinel and recycled sterling silver ring, size 6.5

Fair trade Oregon sunstone, moissanite, and recycled sterling silver engagement ring
{ custom order; sold }

And finally, I thought I'd try my hand at some earrings, since several of my contest participants mentioned that they would like to see some earrings in my shop. These are teeny-tiny (3mm) fair trade California green tourmalines set in 14k recycled white gold.

New Stone

A new fair trade stone that's available for custom orders - Oregon opal!
This one is 6mm.

New Work

Custom-order moissanite, fair trade sapphire, and sterling silver wedding set

(I really like how the band turned out.)

Thanks for the feedback!

I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who took the time to give me feedback on my new website. It's been really helpful to read your thoughtful comments, and this morning I made a few changes based largely on your suggestions. Take a peek and let me know what you think.

The biggest changes are the slideshow on the homepage and a longer slideshow on the gallery page. I'm particularly interested to hear whether these shows take excessive amounts of time to load on your computers. I have a reasonably fast connection, and they are fairly quick to load here at my house.

I also added some links at the bottom of each page to make it easier to find the pages that are not linked in the main title bar (my etsy shop, custom ordering info, fair trade stones list, and fair trade birthstone chart).

Hopefully these changes will be positive improvements; do let me know what you think!

More New Work

Moissanite, recycled 14k yellow gold, and recycled sterling silver ring, size 6.75

New Work

I'm actually planning to set an Oregon sunstone in the center setting of this ring, but I couldn't resist temporarily placing a moissanite there in the center, just to see how it would look. I love it! The center stone is 6mm (as compared with the 5.5mm stone I used in an earlier, white gold version of this design), and that half-mm really packs a punch - this one is a real sparkler!

Three-stone engagement ring, moissanite and recycled 14k rose gold