Jewelry Making

I’m really partial to unusual jewelry and Austin’s Kristin Laing fits the bill quite nicely with her etched sterling silver designs. Kristin latest collection includes earrings, necklaces and rings and each piece is created by hand in her studio. While many of her pieces may seem more stark than other typical bead and jewelry DIY projects, I think her style exhibits clean elegance through the use of silver etching without seeming overly distant or cold.

From her website:

Kristin Laing has been designing and crafting jewelry since her teens. Raised in San Diego and a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Kristin migrated to Austin, Texas after several years on the east coast. While in Austin, she had the opportunity to study silver, copper, and blacksmithing among other metal arts. Her love of working with silver eventually lead to setting up her own jewelry studio. With unparalleled support from family and friends Kristin released her first line in the spring of 2004.

I was looking through her line wondering which piece to pick out to show when I stumbled across the Hayden Earrings which is actually the name of my cat! So that made up my mind for me pretty quickly, and in addition this pair of earrings is pretty unusual in that it is a square rectangle of silver. It’s about 3/4 inches long and features etched abstract floral patterns along with three tiny aquamarine drops on the end. The earrings are $49 and there is also a corresponding “Hayden Necklace” which features the same rectangular floral motif on chain.

You can visit Kristin Laing’s site at:
kristinlaing.com