Previous custom orders

Long Fancy Blue Dichroic
Sculpted Pendant
Does it count as a custom piece if I made it
specifically for myself? This piece of dichroic glass was one
I got from a guy from Austria about 11 years ago. He would come
to the United States about two or three times a year, and always
have lunch at the Cafe next door to my shop. I ended up setting
some glass pieces for him to take back to Europe, and he paid
me partly in glass pieces. One I set for my Mom, others I set
and sold in my shop (back then NO ONE knew what dichroic glass
was!) and this one I kept for myself. I finally got around to
setting it about 2 years ago, and I often wear it when I do craft
shows.

Large Peacock Blue Drusy
Sculpted Pendant
This large piece of peacock blue drusy was
also a stone that Sharon G. of Palm Bay, FL picked up on one of
her travels. Unique and gorgeous stones like this shouldn't be
sitting in a drawer somewhere--they need to be ogled!

Multi-Colored Rhinestone
Sculpted Earrings
These were my mother's. When my niece Melissa
was little, she broke the clip off the back and a couple of the
stones off the top of one of these earrings. Mom wanted me to
try to glue them back together, but that wasn't possible. It wasn't
until after I started creating pieces for The Luella Collection
that it occurred to me that I could set these earrings in a similar
way. I just broke the clip and the couple of stones off the other
earring, turned them upside-down, and sculpted them! Mom loves
them...they go with everything!

Crystal Bead Double-Drop
Necklace
This one I did so long ago that I've forgotten
the customer's name. It was also in the days prior to digital
photography! This customer brought me the lovely, large faceted
crystal beads--they had been from a necklace of her grandmother's
that had broken. I wasn't much into "traditional" bead-stringing
back then, either. I wanted to do something different and interesting,
and she was up for it!

Multi-Stone Sculpted Pendant
This was a first! Customer Carol S. of Satellite
Beach, FL, had these matching blue agate stones in a little bag
in her jewelry box. (How many of you have items like that lying
around, hmm?) She wanted all five of the stones set into one pendant.
I'd never set multiple cabochon-cut stones into one sculpted pendant
before. Each stone has to have its own "harness" to
hold it in place. So after wrestling with yards of wires going
every which way, this is what I came up with. Carol was thrilled...and
quite frankly, so was I!