Pomegranate EarringsApril 2008 Copper, Japanese miracle beads Originally conceived of as an accessory to another project that I haven't yet finished (this text will naturally change when I've finished the project in question). These pomegranate earrings use Japanese miracle beads for the body of the fruit and copper petal shaped beads for the spray at the top. The reflective core and translucent lacquered shell of the miracle beads bring to mind the seeds of a

I just thought it would be funny to have a CZ that large in the house

and as the date approached I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it even though I'd started thinking about what to do with leather immediately following our second anniversary

See it here

and the glitter of the gold against the matte finish of the earthenware form is stunning in person

this tends to make the rest of my work more interesting as a result

the six sets of cymbals align to form the points of an implied Star of David when the piece is viewed from the front

Every year

A customer had seen some of the hamsot I'd made

sometimes just called Ha-Tefillah

The bracelet certainly fits the style

and commissioned this for his daughter

The shamash