Metal clay artist: Linda Allard

Artist: Linda Allard A.J.P.
Jewelry By Heart 2 Heart
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Linda is a  certified crystal healer and she incorporates that along with reiki into each piece that she makes.   Her focus is on creating spiritual jewelry from precious metals and gemstones. Linda loves to find the meaning behind each stone and uses her GIA knowledge to educate her customers about their stones.  Her blog is all about information on stones.

Linda writes:
These first two pieces are Oms.  When I started practicing Yoga I learned about the sound OM and starting wearing one to help me calm myself as it is a holy sound in the universe and often used in meditation.  It means many things to many people which is why I love it.

Both pieces are made in 2 parts the background has a texture and a sapphire is inset.  I always work with real stones and like to inset them into the pieces.  This way they are closer to the skin and their energies work for the wearer.  The top piece is made as a separate piece and they are joined.  One has a patina to bring out a color. Both are strung with beads that represent all the chakras.

The next piece is a meditation bowl.  I definitely feel that meditation is helpful for people so I wanted to make something that represented this.  I set it with amethysts which are a stone for meditation.  I used several pieces to make the texture on the top ala Hadar and then used Liver of Sulfer to get the colors.  I work with liver of silver in layers most of the time using it cold and mixing all sorts of things to get colors.

The last piece is a forget-me-not.  This is the official flower of the Alzheimer’s Association.  My mother lost her battle with Alzheimer’s last year and I wanted to do something in her honor. I piece these flowers together petal by petal and set the middle with genuine sapphires in different colors.  I texture the back and set the stones in a very organic manner.  I also donate a percentage of these sales to the Alzheimer’s Association.