Osage Orange Works

01/10/2025

For anyone who has not been up-to-date on what has been going on, I am grateful for all the love that has been extended through my mother’s passing. We were able to lay her to rest yesterday while we awoke to such beautiful snow! Sharing with you the song I sung to my mother after she had slipped away peacefully. Wishing you all a Heavenly Day. More art from my heart soon. ❤️

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12/24/2024

Whatever you believe in and whatever you hope, wishing you the fruition of all! Much love to all who have supported my work as it evolves. Much love to all and much peace as we evolve together this season and into the future. ❤️

12/18/2024

How am I mounting my sets? What’s the backstory (because there’s always a backstory).

 70 years ago, a set of white leather custom chairs with brass tacks was ordered and received by a much beloved criminal defense attorney in our family for his office. Needless to say, the era was rife with indoor smokers. The white turned to an iridescent gold. Oddly enough that ni****ne stain is beautiful. But it needed a sand and sealant to show off the gold and the white beneath the gold while still being non toxic! After cleaning, sanding, and sealing, I have added grommets to hang each piece and then used a black velvet vintage dress from Miss Jackson’s (circa 1960) that is far too broken at the seams for repair, but perfectly in line with classic bold statement pieces against the high contrast leather. Genuinely, every bit and bob that goes into a design is somehow associated with history and highly considered so that the delivery is as beautiful and meaningful as the pieces that will be worn for decades, as not give way to trends or material breakdown.

Classics are not mass manufactured. They are created with the concept of quality, aesthetic, a nod to the “greats” and originality top of mind. ❤️

This is why everyone in your office has the same “Tarrrrjehh” dress each spring. Be the Osage Orange!

12/18/2024

This custom set is off to visit the post office before landing in its new home under the sunny skies of Arizona.

Mom ordered two sets for her daughters and one custom set. Now I’m starting to wonder which set has been my favorite. Do I really want to sell these? I really want wear these! 🥰 Let me know if you have someone special in mind and we can come up with a design to encompass their personality! 

12/14/2024

Note the below pieces have now sold, but I can make more! I have a few original pieces left that are up for grabs as I complete my beaded shade! Christmas is 11 days away!

Another neighborhood icon was kind enough to model one of my favorite pendants and he told me it was his favorite out of the bunch as well! He has impeccable style, so I am going to say it’s pretty awesome. 🥰 (All pieces are natural stone and sterling except for the Back in Glass basic metal with pyramid mesh metal!)

Thank you again to everyone who has reached out and wished me well on my journey to feeling better. I made some progress this last week and we are on the verge of a diagnosis for my auto immune issues and my knee and back surgeries are being scheduled!

12/09/2024

This salvaged piece will be reposted once I have completed the work on it, and I have been advised to repost once completed for the value of labor and materials that go into refurbishing it. This one is actually going to take a lot more work to give it a second wind, and I will hold off until completed so that you are surprised by the outcome… It will not look anything like any of these photos! Plans are hatched!!! 

12”x12” High and Wide. (Without the light kit).

12/06/2024

Meet HOTROD SUZY! A hotrod driver/racer/mechanic and traveling drummer AS A WOMAN… IN THE 1960s. She is a neighborhood icon when she should be a NATIONAL ICON. (She’s also kind of my BFF). She’s wearing a pendant that IS still up for grabs! The earrings were available but she needs “two holes.” The photo could be more clear of the piece but capturing Susan felt more important. ❤️

12/06/2024

Sydnee is amazing and we had a great time catching up as I delivered her jewelry set! (She has a silver chain she wants to use for the pendant.)

12/02/2024

In keeping with my glass and basic metal concept, I bring you what is just about to be the end of “BACK IN GLASS #2!!!” I will need to know the length of chain you would like, but the main drop area is about 2.5 inches long. It is cyber Monday so start this one at $25 (or something close to that?) I will throw in a sparkly ring I never wear. I need models, don’t I? You can’t tell how shiny and vibrant these are. Dang. Still trying. 

12/02/2024

A friend of mine indicated that she wanted to support my page and my health as I am not able to work a regular job until I am fully diagnosed and treated (outside of the spine surgery), but she did not know that she could afford the giant chunks of genuine stone. She asked me if I could make a set that was closer to $40. That is a hard yes! In fact, I have two rings that I could not leave out of this set. There are two small Aurora crystals in the earrings and the blue stone is genuine, but the ring in black is glass and acrylic and the blue ring is acrylic. Basic metal on the pendant and glass faceted into rivets on the pendant. No, I did not make all of these pieces. I reinvented them… which is why I would totally wear this set for $40! I’m calling it “BACK IN GLASS (and things…?)” I’ll start putting it together tomorrow for any takers!

11/29/2024

Please note that although I have sold my first Dream PRISM, I am making more. Pricing is still negotiable. Keep in mind that if the light catchers seem high, you are looking at 100+ year crystals dug up from my 1912 home. (Lots of work went into restoring them!) ALSO, I am making more. The concept is based on the Native concept, but reimagined - not "catching" the bad energies to fester over your head on a wall but to TRANSFORM negatives into a million bits of positives to shine inside your home and out into the world... Making one prayer or wish or dream or bit of goodness grow and spread infinitely. And I'll take orders!

11/27/2024

EDIT: This set has sold.

It is incredibly hard to get the right lighting on these! Note that the emerald is a kind of Seaglass color and the citrine has striations of yellow-green and almost pearl-white. Again, they do not have to come in a set, but I thought they looked pretty good together.

This pendant is a faceted citrine with sterling silver, polished quartz crystal, Jasper, freshwater, pearl, Swarovski crystal. Roughly 3.25” long.

The earrings are sterling silver, polished quartz, crystal, Jasper, emerald. Roughly 2.5” long.