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We spent the weekend in Tahoe with friends Spencer, Christine, and Ken. Christine is a jeweler, and she makes beautiful silver-based pieces with a slightly Japanese touch that I love, like these dangly earrings with cranes on them. (I don't know if they're really cranes. I don't know my myna birds from my pigeons. But they're pretty birds.)
A lot of her designs have cool moving parts, like wings that flap or amethyst flower petals on rings that move when you wave your hand.
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I wish Christine had an Etsy page, or some other way for nonlocals like me to buy her jewelry.
Posted by: katie | February 19, 2008 at 02:56 PM
You can email her!
Posted by: Lisa | February 21, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Incredible !! This is very cute earrings. i have never seen before. Thank you for sharing with us !! Have you designed these earrings your self. I am quite interested in it.
http://www.vintageyard.com/pendants/brooches
Posted by: Akanskha Khurana | April 28, 2010 at 05:13 AM
Thanks for sharing such info and your experience with us! I really like the work of Christine and I think she is very intelligent and hardworking that she has made a wonderful and unique type of jewelry.
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Posted by: Wholesale | July 26, 2010 at 11:09 PM