I've added a new category to my jewelry blog: FROGS!
Check the right column for the link.
I grew up in a small town, playing with frogs.
In the 1960s in Hoquiam, Washington, we had tree frogs in the yard, and bigger frogs in the swamp at the end of our street. Hoquiam is at sea level (altitude: 0), and is only a few miles from the rainiest spot in the continental United States--a pretty good environment for the little guys with webbed toes.
My sons grew up in Seattle, and, sadly, it's pretty hard to find a frog inside the city limits (I know one or two places where they can be found, but I'm not telling). We used to have to go to the zoo to see frogs. And the boys had projects at their grade school where they hatched tadpoles and then released them in Ravenna Park, which is near our house, but the frogs did not survive. Environmental change.
So I have an affection for frogs that has now spilled over into my jewelry.
The first piece is a double-strand necklace made with square jade beads and sterling silver wire and chain. The vintage charm is a little frog on a lily pad.
Buy the necklace: Froggy Necklace SORRY, THIS ONE IS SOLD.
I have a couple more frog charms, the ones in the photo above, and if you want me to make you a piece of jewelry with one of these, just send me an e-mail: jeanne.sather@gmail.com
If I don't get a special order, I'm thinking that I'll make a bracelet using the sterling frog charm and the light green jade beads that I've used so far in earrings. You can see the earrings here, although they are sold out. I do have more of the beads, though. See: Elegant Jade Earrings
The glass frog on a bead came from Germany, I bought him when I was in Frankfurt. I'm thinking that he would look well on a cord with some chunky beads--that could be either a bracelet or a necklace, I haven't decided yet.
Photos: Monica Strasen.
@ Jeanne Sather 2009.
