Love your gold!

Had a chat with a great client this week about fine metals like white gold, yellow gold and platinum. She loves her platinum, and loves her gold.  Well, now you can love your gold like its platinum because today's Gold prices :  $1,810.  Platinum ? Just $12 more at $1,822 !  What?!!!  This is the highest recorded price of gold...ever.

So, with that said---be sure to wear your gold and enjoy it! (no selling handmade items!) We are so glad we scooped up some amazing handmade high karat 18K and 22K gold findings from Bali awhile back !  Enjoy!

18K gold filigree earrings
14K leverback earwires and chain

This item is SOLD!
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Earth's Angel Liam

Liam's mommy and daddy and baby sister had to say goodbye last week...his family will never be the same. He was loved by many. XO
Please visit www.angelman.org to learn more about special children like Liam.

Liam was a bright faced, rosy child who was learning how to climb on everything. He adored his Mommy and Daddy, his grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins Hunter and Katelyn. You can learn more about the syndrome he was born with, Angelman's syndrome, by visiting the Angelman's Foundation at www.angelman.org and also visiting www.cureangleman.org ---recently making press on the Letterman show by actor Colin Farrell.

Liam charmed his cousin Elly and she loves him back.


What is Angelman's syndrome?
Individuals with Angelman Syndrome tend to have a happy demeanor, characterized by frequent laughing, smiling and excitability. Many individuals with Angelman Syndrome are attracted to water and take great pleasure in activities like swimming and bathing. To see a full list of diagnostic criteria for Angelman Syndrome click here.

People living with AS require life-long care, intense therapies to help develop functional skills and improve their quality of life, and close medical supervision often involving multiple medical interventions. Angelman Syndrome may be misdiagnosed since other syndromes have similar characteristics.

Frisco Treasures

Most of my life, I have ventured southeast to a pure and rugged strip of coastal sand to reconnect.
I think about this place all the time.

   Hatteras Island, NC.

For "ump-teen" years now, I find the "best" shells ever...
See the red-brick one? I remember finding one just like it on a beach walk with the 
cutest blue-eyed, blonde salty-haired ship builder when I was 17.  Still got it in my jewelry box.

Dreamy sunsets on the Pamlico Sound,  in Frisco, Hatteras Island, NC... 
Never get tired of them and wait to see them every year.  Makes me cry.

Can you find the little gray sand bugs tucked in the rear ?
They dig backwards into the surf...used to dig them up to watch them hide, over and over.

Along the natural shorelines of Hatteras and the Outer Banks are richly colored, tiny coquina shells...tossed and tumbled bits of purple amethyst and white Quahog clam shells that were carved into beads, decorative items by the indigenous people, the Algonquian~Croatan Indians. 

 No wonder that many of my jewelry pieces are purple. 
This hand sculpted and coiled piece has inky-black zircon facets surrounding eggplant 
seed pearls, indigo blue iolite, tanzanite and the palest lavender Cape amethyst briolette focal.
 More peacock purple pearls in the hand-linked 
chain with watery, polished oval and deep purple cushion-cut amethyst cushion beads.
Gorgeous faceted garnet and amethyst toggle clasp.
14K gf and 22K gold vermeil.

bobbi jordan's late summer color palette...

lavender & orchid 
shades and hues of purple
shells & sandy dunes

this color of night
sea grass green

                                            

Spring and early Summer

I love this time of year. Favorite colors, favorite scents.  May weddings.  Our daughter was born in May, on Mother's Day. And everywhere there are scrumptious-shiny days with bright blue skies and cool night air. So, to put a ribbon on the first bobbi  jordan blog, here are some personal loves

 

lilac pink hydrangea blue creamy chardonnay buttercrunch lettuce jane austen 

     green-anything & organic-everything beach & garden weddings rosemary

          pearls & silvery hoops feathery nests adele tunes sugarsnap peas

   



Sweet Mrs. Bobb lived next door and had gorgeous indigo and  blue hydrangeas that popped with color each spring

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 Colors like these inspired the woven gold and gemstone necklace (below) with juicy blue topaz and watery cape amethysts

                                         

Local clients will find similar designs at LaDeDa in the shops of Oakwood

     I have ventured into the world of organic gardening ! Buttery soft and beautiful green lettuce ...More of this irresistible color in August with Peridot gemstones

                                                            

A Spring dream...morel mushrooms sauteed in butter & sprinkled with

                                                 sea salt and a chilly glass of "my precious"--

                                                      La Crema Chardonnay---perfection.

Morels are available year round from
MycoLogical

Current Great Read...

Olive Kitteridge  by Elizabeth Strout (Amy and Isabelle, Abide with Me)
Random House Publishing Group
author Elizabeth Strout



Set in Maine, this book was named Best Books of the 2008 by The Washington Post, USA Today, People, Entertainment Weekly and many more!



Did you get a chance to put your nose into a handful of Lily of the Valley this year? My own wedding bouquet was dotted with sprigs of it along with fresh white lilac.

Julia earrings...inspired by picot-edged lace and lilies of the valley

 design inspiration at bobbijordan

bobbi jordan's spring & early summer palette... 

green

   greener  

  this pink 
 this blue

earthy

vintage turquoise