It's interesting to note that we both had made jewelry for well over 30 years before either of us had created a heart design. I'm not sure of the reason, it's not like I thought of it and then rejected it as a cliche, it's just that I don't ever remember thinking of it. Then about 8 or 9 years ago we scheduled an art show at the San Jose Convention Center on Valentine's day weekend and as we were thinking about the show we sort of both said at the same time, "Oh, Valentines's day, we should make some hearts. And we did, each of us made several. And what we found out was a couple of things, one was that people like to buy heart jewels, and the other was that it was fun and there seemed to be an endless range of designs to create using the heart motif. So, a great variety of hearts has become a part of our jewelry output and will likely continue to do so for some time, probably til the end of our jewlery making careers. Basically every heart we have made has found a home. And that is a lot hearts. The collage to the right is a small sampling that I created last week to send to two clients for whom I'm working on jewel designs. Let me know if you have any interest in hearts and I'll email you new designs as we create them. Right now we are making some of the smallest hearts we have made, nickel size or just a little bigger. Who knows where we'll go from there.
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