SHERRY CORDOVA JEWELRY

Author: sherryc

  • A Classic Recycled Glass Pendant

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    Digging in my jewelry box for turquoise pieces, I came across this recycled glass and sterling silver pendant. The pendant is the first piece where I combined the silver directly with the glass. After this piece, I created the process to combine recycled fine silver directly to recycled glass. The sterling in this piece is…

  • Cruising Up Hill

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    Tuesday my good friend, and filigree mentor Yehuda Tassa, and I went out on the roads of the Santa Cruz Mountains to watch parts of the Amgen Tour of California. Tunitas Creek Road is the first part of Stage 3’s mountain segments. The riders look as if the first part of the road is easy for them. Some of…

  • Mexican Museum Art Travels South

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    We used to love visiting and viewing the art at the Mexican Museum at San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The museum has been closed for the last few years while a new location is built to house the expansive collection. A portion of the collection was recently on display in the Palo Alto Art Center. Sculptural,…

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 4

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    Orange poppies were mixed in with the tulips and yellow poppies at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden In addition to the tulips and poppies, there were other flowers which were good subjects with the macro lens.

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 3

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    Tulips at the Golden Gate Park’s Queen Wilhemina Tulip Garden were accompanied by generous plantings of poppies. All phases of the bloom were evident I enjoyed taking these before, during, and after-the-bloom photos

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 2

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    After visiting the Cartier and America exhibit, we stopped by Golden Gate Park‘s Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. After knowing about the garden for  a few years, I am happy that I remembered it during tulip season.

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 1

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    Yesterday Pat Accorinti and I made an early morning visit  to the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for a Metal Arts Guild organized private tour of the Cartier and America exhibit. Our group had a 30 minute head start on other museum visitors. Our enthusiastic docent shared a lot of good…

  • Spring @ Filoli

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    Spring arrived a week early in northern California. The weather was almost summery. Luckily the tulips were still in full bloom at Filoli. Flowering trees and a colorful herb garden are among the other attractions that 15 full time and 120 volunteer gardeners tend A fellow visitor was telling us that in May there will…

  • 500 Gemstone Jewels: A Sparkling Collection of Dazzling Designs

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    My friend, and fellow jewelry artist, Fran Grinels is very happy to have one of her rings included in the new “500 Gemstone Jewels: A Sparkling Collection of Dazzling Designs” book published by Lark Books. Sam Grinels, the photographer, is her husband, and it’s nice that they were both published at the same time.

  • Nice Surprise

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    As I quickly leafed through a class catalog for the Pacific Art League today, ready to set it aside to pass on to a friend, the last ad on the inside cover caught my eye. Something about the ad looked familiar. The necklace in the ad is my “Golden Garden of the Seas” fine silver…