A girls-only rock collectors club. I was its only member.

Growing up in Colorado, I collected stones and seashells and never stopped. Heirloom jewelry passed down in my family became some of my most treasured possessions, valuable in every sense.

At 21, newly graduated and pregnant with my first son, I saw a piece my mother had paid a lot for and thought, “I could make that.” Many tries later, I did.

It all began in Texas: first one local gift shop, then a first market that went beyond every expectation, then a following that reached far past the state line. The business grew up alongside my two babies, born close together.

Today every piece is made by hand, in a studio that travels with my family. From the mountains of Colorado and the wide skies of Texas to the warm ocean breeze of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast and the golden light of the Mediterranean. My heart will always live in the Americas, but every shore I walk finds its way into my work, in its colors, its stones, and its light.