This pendant is made by local jeweler Sharon Bailey. It is a pin with a pendant converter that slips onto the pin back. The piece is sterling with a vintage old stock Bakelite cabochon. It is a one of a kind.

1 1/2" across

My love affair with creating jewelry began in 1996. After a 25-year business career, I started taking jewelry-making classes at a community art center in Atlanta. The next year I enrolled in the art department at Georgia State University, where I spent three years becoming totally addicted to art in general and jewelry design in particular.

In 2001 my husband and I moved to the beautiful western North Carolina mountains. The next year, a fellow jewelry artist invited me to share space in a downtown Asheville gallery. This marked the beginning of my career as a professional jewelry artist.

Art Education

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA - Jewelry design 
and metalsmithing, drawing, 3-D design, art history

Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA - Drawing, painting, 
and 2-D design

Spruill, Chastain, and Callenwolde Art Centers, Atlanta, 
GA - Jewelry, metalsmithing, and drawing

Craft schools - Arrowmont, Campbell, Penland, etc - 
Jewelry design and fabrication