I made this piece trying to get into the steampunk spirit a bit. It could be an ancient machine that used to pull energy from a huge crystal that has long since been removed. Inside, I welded an antique

Just finished this Big Sur jade necklace. Gem grade nephrite jade found while free-diving off the coast. Hammered fine silver fish tail.

I've been wanting to use this really nice Australian opal for a long time. The jade piece below, I found while free diving off the coast of Big Sur in California.

Had this Paua shell turtle and Australian opal for a few years. Am glad to put it into something that someone can wear!

Been getting back to some silver working. The stone on top is an ammolite, from the opalized shell of an ammonite fossil. These stones are relatively new to the jewelry scene and many people have not heard

The Australian opal has a gorgeous blue red and green flash. The jade I found free diving in the ocean off of Big Sur, the heart shape was naturally formed that way via erosion. I didn't do any carving

Just finished this piece over the weekend, using a teardrop shaped labradorite with a great purple and blue flash, alongside two nice little opal doublets with lots of personality of their own.

An ancient Korean technique, involving the application of thin gold foil to fine silver. Using a hot plate, you basically just let the foil melt into the silver, while dabbing at it with a fibreglass brush

Purchased some jade down in Big Sur today, at the ripplewood booth. Looking forward to making a lot of pendants.

Going through Grandpa's old stamp collection. Before email or instant messaging, it looks like we used a sticky paper with a numerical value and some art to send items over long distances. I guess now-a-days

Finished this piece up last night, using an Australian opal doublet from Lightning Ridge, a 6mm round moonstone and a piece of nephrite jade from the coast of Big Sur, California. I drilled a hole through

Finished this new piece tonight, using a piece of ammolite that I bought at the gem show in Arizona a few months ago. Also a piece of jade that I found while free diving in Big Sur, California. It's in

Continuing dump of scanned stamp collection. These are old stamps from Africa, mostly between the 1930s and 1960s.

Continuing series of stamps that I'm scanning in from my Grandfather's collection. From all around the world, mostly 1930s-1960s.

Continuing download of scanned stamp collection. Let me know if you want anything hi-res, and i'll set up a mirror. Cheers.

I found a huge stash of old stamps in my Grandpa's files. I'll scan them in high-res and upload a few at a time. These are from all around the world, mostly 1900-1965.

Painted this one up recently, experimenting with color contrasts. Next time I won't make the background so loud. I do like what's going on with the blues and greens inside the board.

I wanted to try using just one color to practice getting different tonal values. Indigo was used to try and show morning sunlight over fog on a lake.

My cat Kali likes to go out on the balcony of our apartment and nibble on her oat grass patch, or sit in the sun. She's 19 years old and blind which makes her step cautiously, but she's still got some

I like to keep the essentials as light as possible to allow space for specialty items. Hammers and chisels for rock hounding, rope and protection for mountaineering, photography expeditions, or carrying