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Pancakes & Rhinestones
Oma designed beaded evening handbag and accessories. Her studio overflowed with Maxwell House coffee cans brimming with gold plated charms and rhinestones that my young mind thought were diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. I spent each Saturday of my childhood with this magnificent woman. Saturday would start with my father dropping me off at her apartment at 7AM. Oma and her friends, sporting Chanel suits, would be waiting for me in their garden courtyard with a breakfast of thin German pancakes filled with fresh jams and fat crystals of sugar. I’d sip hot coco while they drank strong black aromatic coffee. During their conversation these elegant woman of German heritage would commission me to create jewelry for them. In those days, I took payment in kisses and European chocolates. My early creations consisted of Oma’s rhinestones glued to paper which they tape on to those Chanel suits like Important Jewelry purchased from Cartier, Winston’s or Tiffany’s. PICTURED: Not creating jewelry with rhinestones, paper and glue anymore. From Le Mal Afrique, Bohemian Dove's Eggs Large Blood Red molded Glass “Dove's Eggs," beads, circa late 1800s - early 1900s, strung with a heart shaped 14K yellow and 18K pink gold clasp as three bracelets, which can convert to a necklace or necklace and bracelet. $3,500.00 for the set of three.
Oma designed beaded evening handbag and accessories. Her studio overflowed with Maxwell House coffee cans brimming with gold plated charms and rhinestones that my young mind thought were diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. I spent each Saturday of my childhood with this magnificent woman. Saturday would start with my father dropping me off at her apartment at 7AM. Oma and her friends, sporting Chanel suits, would be waiting for me in their garden courtyard with a breakfast of thin German pancakes filled with fresh jams and fat crystals of sugar. I’d sip hot coco while they drank strong black aromatic coffee. During their conversation these elegant woman of German heritage would commission me to create jewelry for them. In those days, I took payment in kisses and European chocolates. My early creations consisted of Oma’s rhinestones glued to paper which they tape on to those Chanel suits like Important Jewelry purchased from Cartier, Winston’s or Tiffany’s. PICTURED: Not creating jewelry with rhinestones, paper and glue anymore. From Le Mal Afrique, Bohemian Dove's Eggs Large Blood Red molded Glass “Dove's Eggs," beads, circa late 1800s - early 1900s, strung with a heart shaped 14K yellow and 18K pink gold clasp as three bracelets, which can convert to a necklace or necklace and bracelet. $3,500.00 for the set of three.
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