Meditation Inspiration

Well, Warren has been at a vipassana retreat in the bowl of a volcano for a week. While he was being mindful of his breath I was busy creating. Our friends sailor pals, Jim and Vicki, that have Havaiki Gallery in Hanalei, Kauai commissioned us to make some one of a kind pendants and bracelets. This wonderful pendant is fossil dinosaur bone and a fish fossil. I've set them with copper tabs and textured sterling silver.

Design Inspiration

Well we have this nice, big order from www.novica.com for a pendant we make of carved bone and sterling silver.

Tattooing came to Westerners from the early sailors arriving in the Marquesa Islands of French Polynesia. So traditonally sailors get a tattoo after the long passage to these isles. We were 20 days without land bound from the Galapagos islands when we arrived at Fatu Hiva. So of course we must get a tattoo to mark this epic passage, the longest of any circumnavigator. Mine is a traditional Marquesan design of waves and the moon which is the inspiration for our pendant that Novica chose.