These two designs are a celebration of the salmon that sustain life and culture on the North West Coast.  We who live here often take the salmon for granted just as people in other places may take their daily bread for granted.  Salmon may not be quite as important to our diet as in ...

Every winter Owen & I take orders for our jewelry at the Seattle Wholesale Gift Show.  Retail Shop & Gallery owners from the northwest and beyond attend the show.  They see our newest jewelry pieces and we take their orders then go back to our studio and work like mad to fill those orders so ...

Wolf is an enigmatic character on the North West Coast because there is not a great body of Wolf stories as there are for Eagle and Raven.  On Haida Gwaii the Wolf was only known from hearsay as there were no wolves on those islands, but the Wolf was an important family crest of the ...

    Orcas have shown great reasoning capabilities and creative thinking in encounters with humans. I have had many encounters with Orcas myself having been a commercial gillnet fisherman in my early years.  I have never found a reliable story of an Orca harming a human in the wild.  I did see a large male ...

Everybody knows that “green” means environmentally savvy and we like to practice those behaviors in our Studio. In our modern age we like to think we invented all the really good things of the world.  We have plastics, cars, airplanes, computers, and all kinds of modern marvels that make our life easier and/or better.  We ...

These trade beads were so fun to work with and construct into a bracelet for my dear friend. Anita saw a bracelet that she fell in love with so I asked her to send me a picture of the bracelet. She liked the patterns and balance of semi precious beads to sterling silver beads, so ...