The Gilded Pear

Happy JUNE!✨💖🍐This month’s birthstone is PEARL🤍- my personal favorite! Born of patience, shaped by the sea, and treasured for their quiet beauty, pearls remind us that something extraordinary can emerge over time.🤍🤍🤍

Greetings from the Bahamas!🩵I am currently at the Sivananda Ashram, immersed in a Chakra Yoga Nidra workshop with Katie Silcox, founder of the Shakti School.🪷

This time is centered in the heart. Soft pink conch pearls, and a mala I created with love and intention composed of rose quartz and prehnite, chosen for their gentle, healing energy.🩷💚Pink and green, the colors of the heart.📿

An unexpected connection found its way to me here. Carole, who guides the ashram boat, is also a jewelry designer. She created this OM necklace, now part of my collection, a piece I will carry with me.💕🕉️

The Gilded Pear is always shaped by moments like this, where place, energy, and story become something you can hold.

Costa Rica has a way of shifting my hands.
The last time I was here, I fell in love with crochet and wire wrapping~~techniques that felt like weaving devotion into metal.
This time, I’m listening again.
To the jungle.
To the ocean.
To the quiet pull toward something new.

Panama gifted me more than beauty, it gifted me connection.💫 I met this designer who reminded me why I love this craft so deeply. As a fellow jewelry designer, encountering work like this feels like a remembering.
Brass, my favorite metal, recycled materials, serpent🐍forms, pachamama wisdom and🌀spiral energy: creation always moving, always returning. Such special pieces shaped by hands that honor the old ways.💚💚💚