10/12/2026
The fall weather has been so beautiful that I decided to take my photography day outside!
I did all my usual studio shots of the new jewelry and then hauled everything out to the garden to soak up some of the last warm sunshine of the season.
And can we talk about this zinnia?? From a distance it looks like a solid peach color, but up close the petals are pink at the base! I swear it wasn’t like that a few weeks ago. Do zinnias change color as they age? Or have I just not been paying attention to my garden? 😂
Anyway, I thought it made a pretty great backdrop for this new necklace! It’s a bezel set variscite with little aquamarine and kyanite stones wrapped along the chain. I made every single chain link by hand, and one of my favorite things about this design is that the clasp can hook into any link, so you can wear it anywhere from a short choker length up to 18”.
I’ve had a few requests for shorter necklaces lately, and I thought this stone would look really cool set horizontally for a shorter, close to the neck style.
So here’s my new necklace, my apparently color-changing zinnia, and my official proof for why garden plants should be a business expense because now they’re photography props 🌸