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Before I came to Mexico, I made jewelry, and my favorite pieces always told stories. The first brooch represented my two loves: art and writing. The second is my dad and me on trips out to the ranch. The figure of the man looks exactly like my dad, right down to the hat and the khakhi shirt that he always wore. The third photo I took of a basked full of my silver rings.—only one of them made by me. The last photo above is of an ebony heart that was decked out with different stories of my life, including little silver Dutch shoes that represented the homeland of both my grandfather and my grandmother’s parents.
When I first posted this, I had said that none are four views of the only silver ring I remember ever making, for an assignment in my first silversmithing class. I hand cut out the figures, which represented different places I had lived in my life. I soldered them onto a band and then decided it was too broad for my finger, so I hand-sawed around all the figures to make this weird little end result. That’s me leaping from my neighborhood in L.A. to my isolated mountain house up in the redwoods. From palm trees to Redwoods. There is no way I’d be capable of making such an intricate labor-intensive piece now!!!
For CFFC
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Your jewelry is as exquisite as your art and as fascinating as your writing, dear Judy.
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Thanks, Dolly.
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I like your jewelry. I feel the same way about my little stone house in the Cuyamacas. When I moved here, and first heard my furnace clank on, I was filled with joy. I was tired of hauling in wood…
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Great silverwork Judy. Thanks for sharing a piece of you 😀
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I love them, unfortunately, most of the jewelry that i made was given away to long-lost loves, and you have seen some of those made after I got married. Mostly I let the raw product tell me what it wanted to be. You know, you pick up a piece of wood and it tells you that it is an elephant inside, so you just get rid of everything that is not an elephant.
SAM
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Another string to your bow. It is good that we still have some creations that are beyond us now
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What wonderful craftsmanship Judy. Amazing.
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Thanks, Sadje. Brooches have sorta gone out of style but I had fun fashioning them way back then.
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I think they make a fashion statement.
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Great pieces you got here Judy.
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Tanks, Aletta.
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Her yard and view are wonderful.
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