August birthstone: Spinel
EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. Spinel • August’s Birthstone I bet half of you will be surprised to read that there is a birthstone for August which you’ve never even heard of? It’s ...
Read more→EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. Spinel • August’s Birthstone I bet half of you will be surprised to read that there is a birthstone for August which you’ve never even heard of? It’s ...
Read more→EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. How is jewellery made? Fabrication As explained in my last article about casting, some designs lend themselves to being created in wax and then being cast from molten ...
Read more→EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. Let’s have a look at gold today – not the stock market version, but the good, hard, solid, wearable variety – a view ‘from the other side of ...
Read more→EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. How is jewellery made? Casting Have you ever wondered how jewellery is made? Almost any piece of precious metal jewellery comes to life by being either ’fabricated’ or ...
Read more→EXPERT Expert Advice with Dorothée Rosen. Sapphire, along with ruby, emerald, and diamonds, have been the most important precious gemstones for centuries. Let me tell you some things you probably didn’t know about this ...
Read more→Aye, it’s been quite the whirlwind season! Since the early Fall, much has happened, but more about that later. Regardless of challenges, I have been making lots and lots of new OneOfAKind rings with ...
Read more→As I sit in my studio this morning, getting ready to finish some pieces to send out to galleries next week, I am contemplating where their journey will take them before they find a ...
Read more→I am very excited to return to Vancouver next week for the annual Circle Craft Market. This year it feels like I am coming into that fair city on the other end of our changing ...
Read more→I had a fabulous time this past weekend at the Avondale Garlic Festival. This annual event is such a different pace from the hustle and bustle of my other shows, that it almost feels like ...
Read more→Ah! Some exciting news: I am proud to be featured in an editorial on Canadian Jewelry Designers influenced by nature, in nationally published Mercedes-Benz Magazine! In a wonderful tribute, writer Isa Tousignat, supported by photographer ...
Read more→I just finished two outdoor summer art markets: first in Halifax, then in Vancouver, British Columbia, returning today from the West Coast. As much as I enjoy making things in my studio, it is ...
Read more→It’s important to have balance in one’s life. As a hard-working artist and entrepreneur, it might even be doubly important, because artistic inspiration has to come out of a sense of balance and spaciousness. ...
Read more→Ah, and it continues: more new pieces, about more cities: ‘Paris’, and ‘Berlin’. Photo credit goes to Christina Arsenault in Halifax. Two more pieces will follow in my next post! Here is ‘Paris’: I spent ...
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