Blue Dawn Jewellery

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  • We Did It! Indigenous & Ingenious!

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    We had a great time at our show this past weekend – November 10 & 11, 2012. I loved working with the other artists – Naomi, Jay and Jason and they had beautiful work for show and sale. Thank you – meegwetch – to everyone who came to look and buy. Lots of friends I…

  • The Tagua Nut

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    The Tagua Nut I used Tagua Nut in the necklace shown above with a wooden link chain and two brass ring clasps. The natural colour of tagua is an ivory colour and I’ve also used a smaller one that’s dyed a beautiful chocolate brown. I also combined the natural shapes with tagua rings which have natural…

  • The Three Bears

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    Not the three bears of Goldilocks fame, the ones sitting in a cottage eating porridge, but these three bears. They’re on are on a 36-inch long necklace bookkended by a strand of transluscent grey Moonstone and six strands of royal blue Lapis Lazuli in two sizes. The bears are  Sodalite, a blue stone that is often mistaken for Lapis. The…

  • Now for Something Completely Different

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    Icicles I saw this quartz crystal at a bead show and was reminded of the long, sharp icicles that hung from the eaves of the house where I grew up. As kids, we’d break them off and sword fight with them, the icicle sticking to our mitts as it melted from our body heat, and bits…

  • Beginnings…

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    Hello World! This is me – first day of school, many years ago. I was bright-eyed and full of anticipation and excitement when my big sister Rosie took me by the hand to deliver me to our one-room schoolhouse on the hill, a school ruled by the stern white-haired and stiffly-permed Mrs. Thiffault. As you…