A lot of our jewels are unique, one of a kind pieces but we create a lot of what we call developmental series. In this creating mode we start with a design and when it finds a home, we make another that shares aspects of the first design but changes in some aspects, size, orientation, gemstones, textures, metal mixtures, etc. Sometimes making these series goes on for a great number of years, even decades. Sometimes there are years in between designs in the series. The series I'm focusing on here is called Spikes. I've been making these designs for about 15 years or so, have probably made 12 to 16 or them. The original Spike was inspired by a number of martial arts tattoos I saw on the internet. I just sold the last Spike that I've made at the onlineVirtual Fair a couple of weeks ago. I'll be making the next one in the upcoming month or so, I haven't really started thinking about how I'll change the design but I will soon. View our latest jewels on our Eventeny page at:

https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=11060

An interesting side note. We've sold our work at a very nice art fair in Salem, Oregon a number of times in the past 12 years. When we did it in 2013 I had just finished a Spike pendant that I was very happy with. The show went very well as it usually did and on the 2nd day a well dressed young woman came by our booth and spent some time looking at our work and trying on jewels including Spike. She liked several pieces including Spike as the last and I was surprised when I saw she was going to leave without buying one. After she had turned around to leave I said "that last one you just tried on I call Spike." I was just continuing our ongoing conversation but I saw her stop and turn around and return and say "I'm going to buy that pendant because it's called Spike. And she did. Below is a collage of some of the Spikes that I have made.