Taking jewelry making to the next level.

I’m feeling rather tickled right now. I just finished this sterling silver and Dorset Marble pendant.

If you follow this blog, you might be rolling your eyes right now. Big deal, you’re probably saying. Another pendant.

But this one is different.

You see, this is a stone I found on my visit to Dorset Quarry in Vermont earlier this month. I figure that an old marble quarry might have a few small pieces of marble lying around and I was right. I picked up about ten thin pieces to take home with me.

Then, yesterday, I took three of those pieces into my shop and used my CabKing to shape and polish them into cabochons.

And then today I picked the largest of the three marble cabs and wrapped it in sterling silver to make this pendant.

This photo gives you an idea of the stages of the creation process, from dirty stone to finished pendant:

And that’s why I’m tickled. I took something I found in the dirt on the other side of the country and turned it into a beautiful piece of jewelry.