Joie de Vivre jewelry
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Lovely gemstones are the feature of most of my jewelry designs, but this page highlights gemstones used in metal settings (mostly sterling silver) for greater impact and features the artists who make them.

One of my favorite supplier for gemstone pendants is SilverRocks, a vendor I found over fifteen years ago at the Tucson gem show. Over the years, I've selected numerous pendants and earrings and they are always a joy to use. The materials and craftsmanship are excellent, setting beautiful semi-precious gemstones in solid sterling silver designs, often with intricate scrollwork.

Other special vendors include Special Concept, a jewelry shop based in San Francisco that creates smoothly flowing sterling silver designs set with lovely gemstones, and Elysium, a jewelry company sharing beautiful sterling silver creations from Taxco, the silver capital of Mexico. The open organic earring shapes are eye-catching and unusual, and though the designs are not small, they are well-balanced and comfortable to wear.

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SilverRocks has been designing and crafting distinctive sterling silver jewelry inset with high quality gemstones for over 20 years. The jewelry designer works with Balinese metalsmiths to design and create small batches of jewelry items from the beautiful, genuine, high quality gemstones collected on his travels throughout the world.

Ammonite
Amphitrite
Atalanta
Bartlett
Birthday Party
Caribou
Circe
Cleopatra
Cornucopia
December
Demeter
Early Spring
Easy Geology
Europa
Fiery
Four Feet
Glacier Melt
Golden Mean
Gossamer
Helen
Hestia
Kyanite
Leaf Bud
Linear
Market Fruit
Miss Marianne
Modern Fairytale
Ornament
Penelope
Peridona
Persephone
Rand and Angle
September
Warm Fire
Catch the Post
Weighted Average
Write a Letter
Decisive
Intuitive
Jewel
Naiad
Just Right
Mint Julep
Stately
Sunny Prospects
Waterfall
Willa
Spring Fling
Thalia
Euphrosyne
Aglaea
Heartfelt
Solace

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Special Concept started in 1997 as a talented jewelry designer selling his unique square ring designs to visitors to Fisherman's Wharf. His designs were popular in the Bay area, and after opening a number of stores, the company expanded operations and now offers their angular and organic designs inset with pearls and gemstones at the top shows in the nation and beyond.

Swift
Serene

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Elysium Inc has been specializing in high quality Mexican hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry items since its start in 1985. The company works closely with the silversmiths - often small, family owned workshops - to create a terrific array of earrings, bracelets and necklaces.

Sky
Spike

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Marcasite isn't the name of a company or artisan; it's the name of the tiny faceted gemstones inset in these outstanding sterling silver designs. These designs were collected from various jewelry suppliers over time and they never fail to please.

Medici
Nosegay
Natural

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The designs featured here are from a variety of artisans, but what they have in common are the use of beautiful gemstones in interesting pieces that are lovely to wear.

Wood Elf
Inner Eye
Twining Amber

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