Gold and oxidized silver is a perfect combination for the holidays, providing a gilded earthy jewel to highlight the colors of the season.

Explore your Pearlsonality with my new handmade collection of versatile Pearl Art Jewelry.

This month Lori Aks Jewelry celebrates it’s third year in business. To celebrate and thank you for following along, I am giving away a necklace from my newest collection called Crinkled Spirals.

Last week I was so lucky to visit Joshua Tree National Park in California for the first time. We hiked the Hidden Valley Nature Trail filled with rocks and native plants.

Did you know that I wear every piece of jewelry I make for at least two weeks before it is ready for you? Learn more about why I road test your jewelry.

Best wishes to all for a Happy and Healthy New Year! As 2023 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how grateful I am to watch jewelry I’ve made with my own hands head to new homes.

Learn about shows, recent travel, what I am working on and my Giving Tuesday event.

As I look out the window I see the leaves are changing color, the days are shorter and it’s getting colder especially in the evenings. My birthday is in October and I am fortunate to enjoy the dual birthstones of Opal and Tourmaline.

To make these charms I melted down silver scrap I’ve collected into molten balls and then the hammering began. The renewal of materials to create art feels like an important message about transformation. I hope to inspire a sense of wonder about our potential to begin again and reconsider what is around us.

Learn about how my new Secure Attachment chain will provide the link to how to wear many of my pieces together.

Insight: The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of a person or thing.

I’ve spent three decades as a mental health professional helping people develop insight. Recently I’ve been wondering about another meaning of insight; a deep understanding of a thing as it pertains to the art of making jewelry.

On the first day of summer I am releasing three new necklaces for my Essential collection perfect for gifting or your summer go to jewelry. I also share what I’ve been up to this month including the Visual Arts Center of NJ Members Show and co-designing a fordite necklace for my mother’s 85th birthday. Happy Summer!

On May 15th 2021 I launched this website and to celebrate two years, I created a mini collection.The Dream work necklaces explore the psychological concept of dream work. They remind me of the emergence of clarity from interpreting symbols in a dream. Dreams help us digest the events and feelings of daily life making Dream work an important element in emotional well being.

On April 19th Lori Aks Jewelry celebrates two years in business! It is a joy to think about all the art jewelry that has flown from my bench into people lives and I thank each customer for taking a chance on me. It is a nice feeling to grow a following and I am especially grateful for repeat customers. I plan to keep making interesting jewelry that will tempt you to say why not treat myself.

Read about the Spring Forward earrings just listed in time for the clocks to change tonight. I’m working on a one of a kind spring collection and explain how I make trimetal for some new hoops.

For Valentine’s Day this year I share my thoughts about the meanings of flowers and gemstones as a way to communicate love. Fordite is a non-traditional gemstone that I like for Valentines Day because it reminds me of handmade Valentine’s Day cards.

Happy New Year! Although it is barely mid January, it feels like the month is racing by. I started the month with a deep clean of the jewelry studio which was long overdue. Reorganizing my gemstones took the most amount of time, but I am sure this will help me in the coming year as I create new jewelry. I also repaired some of my tools and collected all of my silver scraps so I can reuse them. Thanks to my neighbor’s tree project I was able to add a fabulous tree stump to the studio that will come in handy as a hammering station.

Best wishes to all for a Happy and Healthy Holiday season. As the year comes to a close, it feels appropriate to review and set intentions for the year to come.

I am sitting down to write in the midst of a busy month of jewelry shows, studio time and psychology practice. I am excited to take some time off this week to host my family for the holiday. I wish all of you a holiday filled with renewal of connections. I thank you for your interest in reading my blog and participating in an artistic journey with me. Do not hesitate to reach out if I can help you find just the right art jewelry gift for yourself, friends or family.

Lori Aks Jewelry announces the Secure Attachment Collection debut on October 29th, 2022. It is comprised of curving human like shapes embellished with gemstones, patina, keumboo, diamonds. Each piece is one of a kind and created by hand for you in the Lori Aks Jewelry studio..