Ombré Pulse BraceletDecember 2019 Jade, malachite, 14 karat yellow gold For a holiday gift exchange, I drew a colleague who was easy to design forhe tends to wear several beaded or linked bracelets on his watch wrist, and some of those include malachite and some include gold. I'd done some green ombr beaded pieces before, so I thought that would work as a design pulsing around a braceletlucky for me his wrist size allowed for a complete malachite to malachite pattern. I

The top of the front face is a stylized representation of wheat done in 14K yellow gold

The hammered silver brings to mind the ocean and how the choppy waves reflect sun at all angles

Eilat stone

As I was ruminating on their names

the word "saturnine" is directly derived from the planet's name

I wanted rose gold to be in there to pick up the pink highlights of the stone

I've wanted to make something like this for some time

his wife and their son were both born on the 6th (ו)

We say that one who makes a match is as though one has made the world

but that's another story)

and the seven-branched menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem

to protect the pearls from the rough surfaces of the larger beads