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Grand Canyon is the 7th in my series of National Park pendants to raise awareness of how special our country's treasures are. Grand Canyon National Park is an official International Dark Sky Park. To read more about the International Dark Sky places and where to find them click here. Being able to see the stars is magical and I hope we protect as much as we can.

Time is more precious as we get older so why does it go faster and faster?! Above are some of the jewelry I made in 2025 that I especially loved. Below are the knits that I meditated over that hold so much joy and some sadness, but always love.

A gorgeous dendritic opal is the focal, along with a glass cabochon from Mikelene Reusse in this pendant inspired by Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.

This one of a kind necklace highlights the crags in the great granite faces of Half Dome and El Capitan as well as the waterfalls that remind one how this valley was formed.

This art pendant is inspired by the 20,000 sandhill cranes that migrate in the spring and fall through the San Luis Valley near Great Sand Dunes National Park. Although the naming of the valley and park makes one think of California it's actually in southern Colorado. It's on my bucket list to go to this area and catch the migration. There are 250 bird species that one can find there. The sandhill cranes also use the wetlands in a remote area of the Park, but that's privately held by the Nature Conservancy and the public is not allowed there.

Third in my series of pendants inspired by our National Parks is this purple one inspired by the Silky Phacelia wildflower. It's a wildflower that many never see as it only grows above 7000 feet where the temperatures get cold enough to germinate the seeds. Although I wasn't lucky enough to see one in person, they can be found at Glacier.