The Tucson Gem shows are starting in a week or so. NOT TO BE MISSED.
You can find us at Booth #N918 at the JOGS show at The Tucson Expo Center 3750 E. Irvington, Tucson. The show opens the 25th until the 5th of February. We will re-imburse your $20 entry fee with a minimum $100 purchase.

We are also at the TGMS show in the Tucson Convention, booth #1809. February 8th through the 11th.

Of course the pictured Pendant will be available on a first come, first serve basis. But don't worry we have the most one of a kind pieces we have every  made for Tucson.

Tucson Gem Shows are here. The largest selection in the world in one place. 

e-bu has moved to the JOGS Gem and Mineral Show. It is primarily a wholesale show, but open to the public for $20 for twelve days. e-bu will reimburse your entry fee with a $100 purchase of our jewelry. JOGS offers free parking.  Our booth at the JOGS show is N918. January 26 to February 6

We are also exhibiting at the original Tucson Gem Show, TGMS, in the Tucson Convention Center from February 9 to 12. Our booth# is 1906.

Any of the designs on our website, www.e-bu-jewelry.com, not marked sold will be available. 

 


 

After returning from the Tucson gem shows we were in Bali for two weeks in our new villa and then up to our sailboat, Cuchara, on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia.

Langkawi is an island on the border with Thailand and only 5 hours sail to Koh Lipe island which is in a group of islands with some of the clearest snorkeling water in Thailand. All the islands here are less than an hour's sail away. So we tried all the anchorages and developed our favorites. The North East Monsoon dominates this time of year, so the winds were mostly non-existent. Next year during this monsoon we hope to sail farther up towards the Burmese border. Robbin is all ready to check out the islands of Burma. But of course, she is always raring to go to the next island. I suppose that's how we ended up across the Pacific in the first place.

So it was a month of a little boat maintenance, a lot of snorkeling and exploring and every few days we sailed over to the inhabited island of Koh Lipe with its restaurants, spas and groceries.

We saw some corals and fish we hadn't seen in all our travels before. I guess being in the Indian Ocean for the first time is why.

 Above is Cuchara, our home since 1992 on our mooring in the UNESCO GeoPark mangroves on Langkawi.

 Here we are on a mooring off the beach near Koh Lipe.

 We would leave our dinghy on the beach here while we re-provisioned in Koh Lipe.

 Every evening the squid fishermen would put on their sodium vapor lamps for a night of fishing.

 A common sight in the Thai islands. Tourists being driven in a long tail boat.

 Another joke.

Here's the squid fishermen at night. And below is sun setting behind the distant island.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU IN TUCSON! PUEBLO GEM SHOW 1-29 TO 2-10.BOOTH CYP 60

 TUCSON GEM AND MINERAL SHOW 2-11 TO 2-14 BOOTH 1906

Our new studio by our lazy river swimming pool.

Bamboula

Black bamboo and sterling silver. See it in Tucson the end of the month.

TUCSON 2014 COMING SOON!

We will be at the following shows with our new designs. Please come by.

PUEBLO GEM SHOW, courtyard pavillion #60. January 31st through February 12th.

TUCSON GEM AND MINERAL SHOW, booth 1807. February 13th through 16th. 

We look forward to seeing you there.

Warren and Robbin

BACK IN BALI

The creative juices are flowing! Check out some of our new designs.

 Passing Thru

On an offshore reef in the middle of the Coral Sea I was thrilled to find a bit of sun bleached whale bone and Nuchal Scute. Reticulated Sterling Silver, Found Whalebone, Nuchal Scute, Makassar Ebony       http://www.e-bu-jewelry.com  

 

    Spinnaker

Enthralling to see the spinnaker filling with just a zephyr of air and lines going every which way.
Picasso Jasper, Bronze, Leather Cuff. http://www.e-bu-jewelry.com

Sea Folly

Seems like a bit of a folly---the moon snail dancing on the coral! Sterling Silver, Moon Shell,
Ocean Jasper.  http://www.e-bu-jewelry.com

Please check out our website for new designs almost every day.

                   

A great year for creativity!

This past year has been amazing. We have designed and built 2 villas here in Bali plus had our best year ever with our e-bu Jewelry.

If your in the Southern California area come to Africa and Beyond Gallery in La Jolla on the 26th and see all our new creations and we'll tell you a few tales of the South Seas.

If you miss us there we will be sharing our work at the Pueblo Gem Show, Booth 60 CYP, from the first of February through the 12th.

We look forward to seeing you.

Robbin and Warren

Flying into Losangeleese

Well, it's almost time for us to leave paradise to exhibit our designs at the California Gift Show at the LA convention center, January 18th to 23rd. Then we take the beautiful drive through the desert, which reminds us of the open sea, to Tucson for the Pueblo Gem Show, January 28th to February 9th.

We arrive in the States on the 11th and plan to share our new crop of one-of-a-kinds with a few of our special galleries. If you would like to get a first pick, before we sell out, just contact us.

The photos are ideas we are working on for these two foot by six foot tall photos for the back of the booths.

Flying into Losangeleese

Well, it's almost time for us to leave paradise to exhibit our designs at the California Gift Show at the LA convention center, January 18th to 23rd. Then we take the beautiful drive through the desert, which reminds us of the open sea, to Tucson for the Pueblo Gem Show, January 28th to February 12th.

We arrive in the States on the 11th and plan to share our new crop of one-of-a-kinds with a few of our special galleries. If you would like to get a first pick, before we sell out, just contact us.

The photos are ideas we are working on for these two foot by six foot tall photos for the back of the booths.

Island Getaway

At any one time there are probably 100,000 tourists visiting here on Bali and Lombok. So we have discovered some islands a day sail away that are virtually undiscovered by tourists. We beach comb and snorkel completely by ourselves for days at a time. It's the same as when we lived in the Caribbean, Florida Keys or Yellowstone National Park. 90% of the tourists see less than 10% of the area. Thank you very much

Home from the Sea

We're back in Bali after 6 weeks of sailing the outer islands of Vanuatu and the Solomons. We've seen things very few Westerners ever do. Robbin's added to her sand collection and we beachcombed over 50 pounds of 70 year old Coke sea glass.
We have designed a new line with the sea glass called "It's the real thing."

Vanuatu Islands Sign

We have to learn the language "Pidgin" so we can communicate with the locals on our coming sail. It's the universal language of the islands of Vanuatu, The Solomons, and Papua New Guinea.

This sign gives you an idea. Also, includes French for the left over colonials.

GOING SAILING!

We are off sailing for a month or so. We fly to Vanuatu and sail with friends from there through the primitive, rarely visited islands of Northern Vanuatu and the Solomons. When we sailed across the South Pacific we visited the southern islands of Vanuatu, so this will be new water and people.

Above is an anchorage discovered by Captain Cook on the island of Tanna in Southern Vanuatu . That's our home, Cuchara, at anchor.

Bali Birthday

Well, this is a plate of food offerings for long life, Bali style. It seems to be working. And I like the idea of emphasis on long life, not on counting how many years are in the past.

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.

Peublo Gem Show, Tucson

Well we are down to the last few days here in Tucson. It's been a great show. Now we have to get back to work in Bali. Seems this was the year for rings and our one-of-a-kind pieces. Those are our favorite designs to work on so we are excited to get back to the benches. Watch our website; www.e-bu-jewelry.com for the new work as we make it.

Thanks for your support,

Warren and Robbin

Today the 21st of January is the first day of the California Gift Show. We are in booth #532, Kentia hall.

Had a great first day with a great sale to the famous Phoenix shop at Nepenthe on Big Sur. Their jewelry buyer spent an hour with us. Great reinforcement. We make very cool jewelry.

Leavin' on a jet plane.

Well, we leave for LA Friday and are busy making the latest one-of-a-kinds. The photo is of a ring Robbin designed and I made. Ammonite set in etched silver on black bamboo and it's adjustable just in case.

" When traveling, lay out your clothes and money. Then pack half the clothes and twice the money."