A Certain World* is where I go to unwind, create, and dream.

I made my first jewelry sometime in elementary school, and my designs, materials, skills, and techniques have been evolving ever since. So far, everything I've learned about jewelry making has been entirely organic and self-taught through trial, error, experimentation, or just by playing around and seeing where the pieces land.

I design and make my jewelry, take and edit photographs, write descriptions, and manage my shop and orders all from my dining room table. (Hopefully in our next apartment - or house?! - I'll have a room of my own that can be a studio!) My work is inspired by my travels, my love of books* and plants and the cosmos, and anything that's colorful, crisp, and vibrant. In choosing supplies, I gravitate towards clear stones in bright colors with a lot of shine or sparkle, and if it's teardrop shaped, I'm in love; I only work with sterling silver, goldfill, or vermeil metals. My "Perseid" collection is the start of a realization of a dream to specialize in precious and semiprecious gemstone and metal jewelry.

I started my shop as a way to disconnect from the day-to-day of hectic life in New York City: a little something I could use to fill my free time with something that I loved doing. I live in slower-paced Berlin now...but I still love it! Creating something with my hands lets me think and focus in a way that's completely different from my day job (which, thankfully, I also love). There's nothing more fulfilling for me than to be able to look at my shop and say, "I made that!"

I hope you love what I've made, too.

*my shop name comes from the title of a book by my favorite poet, W.H. Auden.