And here is the rest of the Honeybee Collection which will fly onto the shop shelves at 7pm EST on Sunday!
Do keep in mind that this isn’t an annual collection, and it will likely be several years before the honeybees return. I tried to make as many of each design as possible, so no one missed out. I hope you catch your intended bees!
Honey Necklaces
There will be 48 necklaces available.
Length is adjustable from 17” – 20”
Price: $140 – $160
To me, this design looks like a cup that has been filled to nearly spilling with honey!
Each necklaces features a large citrine gemstone with a few brass pollen granules placed sporadically around the stone.
From the backs of the pendants I have carefully sawn windows in the shape of a honeybee.
When you hold the pendant up to the light, the bee glows warmly.
They have been oxidized and hand polished for an organic look, and to highlight the brightness of the stone and brass orbs.
Beekeeper’s Cuffs
There will be 10 cuffs available.
XS = 5″ around with a 1″ gap
S/M = 6″ around with a 1″ gap
M/L = 7″ around with a 1″ gap
Price: $159
Rough and warm. These are cuffs to be worn while bee lining through the forest in search of wild hives, or spinning honeycomb on summer afternoons. A beekeepers cuff.
Cuffs featuring rough citrine focals, freeform and wild, like gooey clumps of honeycomb pulled right from the hive.
On either side are two little brass pollen granules, and a honeycomb pattern across the top of the band.
The bracelet has been oxidized and hand polished for a textured, organic look, and to bring out the lowlights, and accent the lightness of a stone.
The cuff band is made from rectangle band and is easily adjustable.
Bee Bloom Necklace
There will be 18 necklaces available.
Suspended from chains adjustable between 17” – 20”
Price: $160 – $170
Fluffy, sterling silver flowers set above rich citrine gemstones.
Each flower is painstakingly sawn, textured, smoothed, and shaped by hand, petal by petal.
And in the center, little brass pollen granules; the bees can scarcely resist!
The backs of the stone pendants feature honeycomb cells full of glowy orange citrine, tiny sawn hexagons to show the backs of the stone.
An eternal summer day to wear about the neck.
Queen Bee Necklace
There will be 9 necklaces available.
Suspended from chains adjustable between 17” – 20”
The pendants measure between 1.25 – 1.5″ wide
See the photos of the pendant being held
and beside an American quarter for size reference.
Price: $175 – $210
And here, the biggest, boldest necklace!
The inspiration behind this design was the queen bee herself.
Large and bold, and crowned with a circlet of flowers.
The most fitting adornment for a honeybee queen.
These necklaces are comprised of freeform citrine druzy clusters set inside floral borders.
The backs of the pendants feature the faint impression of a honeybee.
And I couldn’t help but make a Queen of the Queen Bee Necklaces, a necklace larger than the rest with a distinctly different honeybee impression on the back.
It has been oxidized and hand polished for an organic look, and to bring out the lowlights of the flowers and bee impression.
Midsummer Necklace
There will be 13 necklaces available.
Length is adjustable from 17” – 20”
Price: $230 – $256
The most detailed design in the collection: hidden bees, rich citrine gemstones, floating brass pollen, and swaths of sterling silver carefully shaped.
This piece features a citrine gemstone with a few brass pollen granules placed sporadically around the stone, like a cup that has been filled to nearly spilling with honey!
These necklaces are asymmetrical in shape, curving and undulated around the various stones and silver elements, like a bee gamboling around a garden.
There are curved leaves with vein patterning taken from real leaves. Each has a flower painstakingly sawn, textured, smoothed, and shaped by hand, petal by petal.
And in the center, little brass pollen granules.
From the backs of each of these, I have sawn out a window in the shape of a bee; a sticky, sweet thing made entirely of citrine honey.
And when you hold the pendant up to the light, the bee glows warmly.
The direction of sunbeams, summer preserved in a pendant.
August Gold Earrings
There will be 27 pairs available.
Made with sterling silver posts and butterfly backs.
Rubber earring back are available
upon request if you prefer those!
Price: $145
I have plucked a handful of sterling silver flowers with droplets of August sunshine just for you!
These earrings feature layered sterling flowers, carefully sawn, shaped, and hand textured.
They have warm brass centers and sit atop sterling studs.
Accompanying the flower studs are sweet droplets of the most liquidy citrine I had in my gemstone cabinet.
Faceted to drink the light and spill it outwards.
The gemstone components are made to be worn either on the backs or front of the earlobe, or the flowers alone.
However you prefer!
Bee-tree Earrings
There will be 20 pairs available.
Earrings measure about 42mm (1.65”) from the
top
of the earlier to the bottom of the earrings.
Price: $125
Like glowing drops of honey gently held in a weathered tree.
Warm honey citrine gemstones are carefully balanced within a hammered twig.
Each earring was carefully measured and shaped into a hexagon and suspended from sturdy earwires.
Earrings made for reaching into honey trees and pulling out liquid gold.
See the last photo to see an example of how these earrings will look worn.
Honeydipper Necklaces
There will be 37 necklaces available.
Chains built to be adjustable between 17” – 20”
Pendant sizes range from Small to Large,
measured horizontally across the honeybee.
Sm: 26mm | Med: 29mm | Large: 35mm
Price: $90 – $110
And here, the necklace I made for those who wish to carry a secret honeybee through the long-dark months. Simple and unassuming.
These necklaces are comprised of sweet little honeybees set amidst sterling shadows and built into a simple chain.
Tiny citrine gemstones of graduated color drip upward from the pendant.
Like wildflower honey of varying sweetness neatly arranged around the honeybees.
Three layers of sterling silver to give these simple pieces weight, to wear close to the heart.
And that’s everything! An entire summer of good, steady work. I think I became part honeybee myself, working away in the darkness of my hive.
This collection will float into the shop on
SUNDAY, September 22nd at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Click here for a direct link to where they will appear.
And remember, refresh your page often once the clock strikes 7:00 PM EST, until they all appear.