My Process

My ritual starts with a short grounding exercise, a few cleansing breaths, lighting an incense and a candle. I meditate for a few minutes on the healing properties of each stone while holding them in my hand and continue to focus on specific properties I feel drawn to throughout the whole creation process. When a piece is finished it's passed through white sage smoke to cleanse its healing energy. Each piece is activated, charged and cleansed by the time it reaches it's new neck.

Grounding and Breath Work

It is so very important to me to have the rigth energy before making energetic healing jewelry for others. I believe that stones and crystals hold our energy when we spend time with them. I spend many hours on each piece I design, so it is crutial for me to be in good spirits and grounded when I work.

Incense and Candle Lighting

At it's most basic level, incense is believed to purify the space and create an elevated mood. Burning incense can also help boost creativity and flow state by clearing and stimulating the mind. I choose to also light a candle because to me it symbolizes light in the darkness of individual life. I believe my practice helps me to infuse that light energy into each piece of jewelry I create.

Intention! Intention! Intention!

After I physically prepare myself and the space I'm working in, I spend a few minutes of research, or review on their metaphysical healing properties. I visualize them finding the neck of the person they were intended for according to the healing properties of each stone. My favorite way to design jewelry is custom pieces for individuals who seek help with a particular dis"ease" in their lives, but I also enjoy imagining the people they are for, knowing that they will one day make it to the right place.

Saging

There are quite a few ways to cleanse the energy of stones and crystals. Passing the piece of finished jewelry through sage smoke is my preferred method. Sage smoke releases negative ions, which balances out positively charged ions from electronics, cars, EMFs and pollution. This helps the energy around the stone or crystal become more in harmony with its environment.

Antiquing and Polishing

Most of the time I antique my creations. I just think it brings out the WOW in them. When they are submerged in LOS solution I love watching the metal turn dark. After they are done dipping, i rinse them with a baking soda solution to stop the chemical reaction, give them a good scrub with steel wool, clean them again with soap and finally they get a good polish with a polishing cloth.

Sometimes a piece of jewlery just looks better in raw metal, and in that case it just gets a nice polish.

Packing and Shipping

I think it is so much fun to get exciting packages in the mail, so it was so much fun for me to design how I would mail out my creations. I want it to be almost as exciting as going into a store! I like to throw in little fun surprises too!

Shipping has been my least favorite part of the whole process- but it is a very necessary one and my local postal clerk is super friendly, so that helps too ;)