At some time around 60 plus years ago I started drawing flames and suns on the margins of notebook paper in boring junior high school classes back in Lawton, Oklahoma. This led me in two directions, towards doodling and drawing and painting art which I still do today and also to making a great variety of sun designs in jewelry pieces which I have done for almost 50 years. To the right is a collage with a small selection of jewels incorporating the sun motif in the design. This is still going on and I expect it will as long as I continue to make jewelry which will probably be as long as I am alive. Most of these pieces were made entirely by me but the long hinged pendant with the lapis at the bottom and the abalone shell at the top & the pair of earrings were a joint project of Carlie and I for which I made sun shaped cutouts for the top and Carlie incorporated them into her design. I'm currently working on the latest couple of pieces in the ongoing series of sun designs.
