kiss kiss

Like two chocolate kisses to adorn your lovely lobes. These earrings would accompany the chocolove necklace perfectly. Two chocolatey tear drop shaped freshwater pearls with amber colored cut glass crystals atop each one. 14-kt gold-filled findings. 1-1/8" in length. $19

connect the dots

Yes, connecting the dots, usually on any paper menu at a family friendly restaurant. And, when it comes to my life, can seem so painfully obvious in hindsight but when you're living it, it's like a big rat's nest of knots or dots. Oh well, guess that can make life interesting. In this case the dots are gems, freshwater pearls of a lovely warm brown hue and various shades of griege (gray + beige = greige). I wonder what a book called fifty shades of greige would look like, perhaps a more literate take on what it takes to keep the fires burning with an attractive non cliche ridden middle aged couple? So I'm getting off track. There are also smoky quartz colored glass crystals strung along this fine 14 kt gold-filled chain. 18-7/8" in length it would look lovely with chocolove or at first blush. $37

chocolove

If you haven't had a Chocolove candy bar yet, don't start! You won't be able to resist the dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt, it's like a tastier, overpriced Hershey's with almonds.  Oooh, they have a pretzel in milk chocolate candy bar that's super yummy too. So this necklace is like my ode to chocolove, with chocolatey colored freshwater pearls accented with amber and smoky quartz cut glass crystal beads and bronze glass seed beads. 14 kt gold-filled toggle clasp. 26-3/4" in length. $47

what a bunch of abalone

Yeah, you read that right, not baloney but abalone. I wouldn't know how to fashion any jewelry out of bologna. I'm astounded that there are spam sculpting competitions, who does that medium call to? But I was quick to think of a wonderful way to showcase this piece of abalone, keep it simple and let the mollusk's inner shell (or nacre, my fifty cent word for this post) shine on it's own. So I wrapped it in wire and hung it on a delicate chain. The chain and all findings are 14 kt gold-filled. 16-1/2" in length. $37