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She wanted a line.

July 27, 2018 • client profile • commission • experience • guide • intention • necklace • personal story • process

She wanted a handcrafted easy-wear everyday necklace.

Mom’s Super-Warm, Yummy-Love Jewelry Collection

May 13, 2018 • love • mom's • personal story

“If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.” So, thank you to our supportive mom’s who help us stay the course on our journey of making art.

Stainless Steel Chain Bracelets

November 19, 2017

Stainless steel chain bracelets! Shiny links and a nice heft adds an earthy balance to your day. An easy way to add bold presence and attention to your look!

LAND[escapes] Neckpiece.

April 27, 2017 • guide • personal story • process • shows • signature • studio • Surel's Place • vision

Anything meant to be realized will eventually find it’s way. Abstract landscapes, symbolized by a horizon line, make their way into this neckpiece 38 times. Consider the repetition to be possibilities, visions in your mind’s eye of places yet to go or places that have been seen. Thirty-eight places to escape to… Perhaps, a Choose Your Own Adventure with many different endings. String Theory? They could be choices along the same timeline. Or, windows into your past lives or future dreams. That’s a lot for one statement neckpiece to communicate, alas that’s what It Is. This piece was realized as a...

“I see jewelry.”

January 10, 2017 • experience • knowledge • personal story • process • vision

“I see jewelry.” That's what she said... wait for it... The Idaho Statesman posted a series of video’s of local jewelers. Click the link below to watch a short movie of Melissa in her studio. Video by Katherine Jones, photographer for the Idaho Statesman. http://www.idahostatesman.com/living/treasure/article115667088.html