As a girl growing up in the deep south, water was truly an essential elixir. Water was a beacon of hope when the oppressive heat of the Fl...

vintage peridot rhinestone statement necklace  There is something about the color green that is immediately soothing. In these stat...

I came across a small, chapel sized upright piano on its side last Monday in someones yard two hours before you had to leave to teach. It w...

Yesterday  was most extraordinary...made up of moments that you simply have to write about. It was an I-cannot-stop-smiling kind of day. L...

     Ever since I can remember, I have loved the outdoors. As a girl, I spent hours playing in the woods, and swimming in Lake Santa Fe. As...

For this assemblage necklace, I used a bit of antique netting and lace for the "chain" and ancient rhinestone bits along with a ...

This holiday season, it's all about the sparkle here at Sacred Cake! But wait, it is always about the sparkle over here isn't it? T...

I haven't written in so long, but today I was prompted, perhaps by divine suggestion, to write. I found this poem in its raw form, hand...

And still. I rise. And I rise And I rise... Sometimes when you begin to think that you have nothing, it really becomes everything you ...

pink line of Creative Co-op Jewelry (being discontinued)  With the almost complete  phase out of my wholesale Jennifer Valentine Jewelr...

I dreamed of you last night. You were my beautiful secret, among the class of delighted beginning painters, disciples of your inspirat...

It is not just today that I remember you, or your stories of getting on "the chopper" for a brief reprieve from the war to come ...

Today, you and I, lay under the relished shade of the volunteer Mulberry tree. Its berries, still tight and spring green. Nothing came betw...

"Emerson, I am trying to live,  as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine....

I was so thrilled to be invited by Kat Howes to have my beautiful Anna Wintour inspired navy blue collet necklace and french flourish earri...

     I've done it a thousand times...with each child. Jeremy (in the photo) is my fifth (and last ) child, and tonight I watch him sleep...

I wanted to share  a little project I love to do when I have some spare time away from making jewelry to create FUNctional assemblage pieces...